The Juan MacLean

After a few local DJs spun tracks to a mostly empty room, a real audience started to take shape by the time Nancy Whang quietly assumed her spot at the decks. It was a little over halfway through her set of disco funk, with Latin influences, before the crowd defrosted and started to move around. Whang isn't a

In recent years the DFA beatmaker has been a no-show on more than a few occasions here on the West coast repeatedly leaving fans out in the cold and looking for refunds.

Thankfully for us John MacLean and Marcus Marr agree with us and this week’s The Juan MacLean show at the Nectar Lounge was a pretty fantastic way to kick off another year of live entertainment.

One of New York’s brightest lights in modern electronic music, The Juan Maclean, came wrapped up in a perfect box via Fenway Recording Sessions at Brighton Music Hall.

Along with brain child John Maclean, The Juan Maclean includes singer Nancy Whang (of LCD Soundsystem), keyboardist Monika Heidemann (who opened the show under her solo-moniker, Heidemann).

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But while rainbow flags and strutting in the streets might be a very visible display of gay identity in 2010, across town in Silver Lake Junction, a more melodic celebration was taking place.