The Soundtrack Of Our Lives (TSOOL) / Cato [Salsa Experience]

Cato [Salsa Experience] was fucking amazing. Very much a Mooney Suzuki type sound but occasional keyboards added a dimension to the sound. TSOOL is another band (like The Strokes) that have made huge strides in a short time. Nice long performance focused on "Behind the Music" and two great encores that incorporated some of the older stuff. A much more visual show from the whole band than the gig a few months ago. We had a chance to meet them at the pre-show party for them--and they were very nice guys conversing with us in English--but all Swedish between each other. Their distribution company laid out some bucks for the party (open bar and order off the menu--they paid). Spoke with a couple of the reps from the company and the goal is to give "Beyond the Music" a major radio push after the first of the year. They admitted that "Behind the Music" is getting old in many parts of the world--but still fresh in the USA and so there are no plans for TSOOL to record a new album for awhile (a little disappointing to hear I thought). Lots of free tickets were floating around for this show--but TSOOL's performance converted any one with doubts. They are ready for the bigger venues and like The Strokes a few weeks back—they have turned their entire performance up a few notches. It was much more of a band performance than a few months back--I didn't appreciate then how talented all these musicians are! Some extraordinary guitar work.
--Dem