Keyboard kaiser Mike Mayfield (from the Buttons, Electrical Spectacle, Liteworks) will be playing once again with Chef Menteur in upcoming gigs Saturday, May 17 at the Circle Bar and Friday June 6 at the Dragon’s Den. See the BPR shows page for more information. We’re also excited to be playing shows with two great local bands that we think are the cream of the current experimental crop: Metronome the City (May 17) and A Living Soundtrack (June 6).No, we didn’t win ‘best electronic act’ at the Big Easy Awards recently, but we did help ourselves to the open bar and the free martinis and got to see our friends in Country Fried and the Happy Talk Band win their respective categories, which were both well deserved. Congrats to them! Also to hear master of ceremonies Harry Shearer (a.k.a Derek Smalls) deadpan about the jackass in the White House was good fun.