Between their consecutive Friday performances at Coachella, indie-pop's favorite newbies, MS MR played two sold out shows at The Fillmore on April 14th and 15th.
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| MS MR @ The Fillmore April 15th, 2014 Photo by: Nikki DeMartini |
The house was packed long before Jagwar Ma's fun electronic psych-rock opening act was over on Tuesday night and you could feel excitement swelling as fans danced to M.I.A jams pumping out from the PA as they waited for MS MR.
An immediate exchange of explosive energy launched a genuine connection between MS MR to their super loyal SF fans. The crowd's overwhelmingly positive reaction to every hauntingly romantic indie-pop song fueled Lizzy's fierce performance.
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| MS MR @ The Fillmore April 15th, 2014 Photo by: Nikki DeMartini |
Her sultry vocals remained steady as she intensely thrust and gyrated around the stage and the harder she danced the harder fans danced, jumped and fist pumped. Max got in on the action too, busting out some fresh c-walkin' steps from behind his synthesizers, he also rallied fans to join in on the clap filled chorus of the upbeat dancey track, "Salty Sweet". Max and their bassist harmonize together well and delivered subtle back up vocals throughout the passionate set while penetrating bass and echoing rolling drums flawlessly accentuated danceable tracks like "No Trace", "Think of You" and "Ash Tree Lane".
And when the band turned things down a notch their fans followed suit. Except for when Lizzy and Max were left alone to perform the soul searching, heart breaking song "BTSK", there wasn't a single song that the crowd didn't whole heartedly sing along to on Tuesday night.
The crowd's feverish roaring and thunderous applause after every single song left the leading lady giggling like a school girl and a state of elation never left her face.
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| MS MR @ The Fillmore April 15th, 2014 Photo by: Nikki DeMartini |
"You're really special San Francisco, you embrace new music and this is like...this is our #1 city to play" she graciously told fans as if they couldn't adore MS MR anymore.
"We opened here for Marina and the Diamonds about two and a half years ago" Max added, "so it's really special to be headlining here at The Fillmore."
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| MS MR @ The Fillmore April 15th, 2014 Photo by: Nikki DeMartini |
With one album to date, the final song of the night came only one hour after the show started even with all of the playful banter. Fans were pumped for the hit single, "Hurricane" as Lizzy invited everyone to sing along but no one was ready for the show to be over.
After being on tour for the better part of a year, MS MR have really come into their own, exuding their humble confidence more comfortably now. For a new band still on the rise, their connection with fans is uncanny and will continue to catapult their popularity.
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| MS MR @ The Fillmore April 15th, 2014 Photo by: Nikki DeMartini |
The remix EP of Secondhand Rapture is available now and MS MR is still on tour!
Along with a bunch of shows throughout the summer, the Brooklyn based band will be part of Bonaroo Music Festival, Firefly Music Festival and LIVE105's BFD on June 1st!
MS MR set-list April 15th, 2014
1. Bones
2. No Trace
3. Salty Sweet
4. Fantasy
5. Do I Wanna Know/ (Arctic Monkeys cover)
6. Head Is Not My Home
7. This Isn't Control
8. Dark Doo Whop
9. Think of You
10. BTSK
11. Ash Tree
12. Hurricane
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