Video: "Clay" by the Ballet, Live @ the Cake Shop, NYC, 09-22-06

photos by Devon Banks The Ballet's debut album Mattachine! is one of the most instantly likeable discs I've heard all year. Song after song of three minute pop, told from a fresh point of view, and impeccably executed. So assured is the production that it's hard to remember that this is still a very new band on shaky fawn legs working to establish a perfomance presence. Last Friday's show at the Cake Shop (in an opening slot for Mark Robinson's Flin Flon) was a reality check. [...]