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I decided to check out Ladytron at First Ave last night.  The band members came out on stage all dressed in black (natch), and except for a few equipment problems, they put on a good show.  Ladytron is sort of a female version of the Cure, if the Cure was a little more menacing and a little less co-dependent in its lyrics.  I was particularly impressed with the vocal chops of Mira Aroyo, one of the lead singers.  I thought her voice had been altered and remixed in the studio, but her singing actually does have a spectral quality that is distinctive and gorgeous.  And she has a Ph.D. from Oxford in genetics, which, when combined with the whole music thing, puts her at about a 9 on Mark's Scale of Hotness.