Body Electric Company

Here's some grainy live footage of the Deerhoof-like Molly Siegel & her band Ponytail going nutso while playing the song 7 Souls at some club sometime late last year. Once you get past the blood curdling screeching there are some of the same jammy elements found in any good My Morning Jacket rambler. Listen to the song Celebrate the Body Electric.

I did a lil' research on the band and found out that they were part of a scene that began in early shows at the "Copycat Building" in Baltimore, as part of a musical scene that included previous SOG mentionees Dan Deacon and Beach House.

Besides Ponytail, here are some songs by some of the other bands that performed at the Copycat Building as mentioned by Jeremy Hyman (one of the members of Ponytail). It is a mixed bag of punky stuff, but you can hear a common thread running through all of their sounds. I've contended for some time that creativity happens in clusters, or, if one had to boil down the idea to one word, creative "Hives" but I wouldn't want to give Malcolm Gladwell any ideas.: