[ATTENDED: March 20, 2024] Mustard Service
Mustard Service is an indie rock band based in Miami, Florida, formed in 2015. Self-described as “zest pop”, the band’s music draws influences from rock, surf, jazz, funk, and bossa nova.
When they came out and started playing I thought they were joking. They play with a total wedding band vibe. There’s soft gently echoed guitars, wavery synths, and a kind of crooning vocal.
And yet, the lyrics are contemporary and funny.
The amusingly titled “Get Fucked” (which has no curses in the lyrics), features this gem:
So when I tell you, hun that I just need to go outside and smoke a blunt, the world seems like it’s spinning, I don’t wanna die, my skin might disagree, but then my heart, it flies, every single day I’m going down.
The songs are all mostly quite short, and yet there were solos galore. Leo Cattani played a few great keyboard solos (with all kinds of settings on the machine). And even Augusto “Tuto” Di Catarina had a brief bass solo in one of the songs.
Adam Perez on drums was always smiling and was quite amusing as he introduced “(Your Cat) Don’t Stand a Chance” by saying it was a song about their cat Smoky. Amusingly it’s about cats fighting, but it’s smooth and discoey.
The band was a four piece for this show with Marco Rivero Ochoa on lead vocals and lead guitar. Apparently the band has a lead guitarist guitar, Gabriel Marinuchi (or “Nuchi”) but he was not there. Rivero Ochoa’s solos were good but not amazing or anything. (more…)
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