Thursday night at The Cake Shop, while listening to Ava Luna‘s song "Won’t You Be Mine", we experienced an inner time travel that took us back to a 1950s soda shop – were a jukebox was playing… that song. This was probably triggered by the band’s three female vocalists, who reeled the audience in with their velvety doo wop style vocals, feet stomping and hand clapping. That trip was shattered about a minute into the song when frontman Carlos Hernandez’s Prince-esque falsettos combined with some heavy synth and bass impacteded our confused eardrums. This unlikely melding of synth rock/pop and doo wop is a little like those chocolate and bacon bars you see around these days: sweet and funky, but pretty damn yummy. The band has a series of shows scheduled in the NYC area in June and July, make sure to check them out. – Abigail Devora