When writing up Castanets' percussive curve ball "Worn From The Fight (With Fireworks)," I mentioned Ray Raposa's eerie Rafter Roberts-produced Texas Rose, The Thaw, And The Beasts has an I'm-so-lonesome-I-could-cry feel, like it was all put to tape in the... CONTINUE READING NEW CASTANETS VIDEO - "MY HEART"»
Posted on September 14, 2009 in Video (0 comments)
Tags: Bon Iver | Castanets
Castanets, aka Ray Raposa and a shifting cast of collaborators, is about to release Texas Rose, The Thaw, And The Beasts via Asthmatic Kitty, but you won't find his haunting cover of Hank Williams' "Rambling Man" on it. The previously... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP CIV: HEAR NEW CASTANETS, WIN A WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE SKATEBOARD DECK, IPOD, AND CD»
Posted on September 2, 2009 in Giveaway, MP3 (2 comments)
Tags: Castanets | Hank Williams
Like much of his work, Ray Raposa's eerie batch of songs on the Rafter Roberts-produced Texas Rose, The Thaw, And The Beasts comes with a lonesome, swampy feel: Like everything was recorded in the deep woods at night and very... CONTINUE READING NEW CASTANETS - "WORN FROM THE FIGHT (WITH FIREWORKS)" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on August 6, 2009 in MP3, Tour Dates (3 comments)
Tags: Castanets | Phoenix
Today's Dark Was The Night track comes to us from a guy named Sufjan Stevens. It's a cover of the Castanets' "You Are The Blood," originally on Ray & rotating Co's 2004 album Cathedral (keeping it in the Asthmatic Kitty... CONTINUE READING NEW SUFJAN STEVENS - "YOU ARE THE BLOOD"»
Posted on January 29, 2009 (94 comments)
Tags: Castanets | Dark Was The Night | Ponytail | Sufjan Stevens | Woods
Castanets forthcoming third album In The Vines is getting a lot of pre-release play over here. We recently posted Marla Hansen's bug 'n' plane filled cover of "Sway" and now we have ourselves an exclusive icicle-lined remix of Castanets' aching,... CONTINUE READING NEW CASTANETS - "SWAY" & "THIS IS THE EARLY GAME (SON LUX REMIX)"»
Posted on September 13, 2007 in MP3, Video (2 comments)
Tags: Castanets | Son Lux
Lots going on in Marla Hansen land. The singing violist releases her Wedding Day EP today, a six-track collection with help from Asthmatic buddies Sufjan Stevens and Shara Worden aka My Brightest Diamond (with even more support coming from Sebastian... CONTINUE READING MARLA HANSEN COVERS CASTANETS»
Posted on September 4, 2007 in MP3 (2 comments)
Tags: Castanets | Marla Hansen
A couple of weeks ago I ran into Raymond Raposa, a.k.a. Castanets, at Spuyten Duyvil, a beer and wine bar in Brooklyn. Always on the lookout for musicians with day jobs, I asked him a bit about his work history... CONTINUE READING QUIT YOUR DAY JOB: CASTANETS»
Posted on May 30, 2007 in MP3, Quit Your Day Job (7 comments)
Tags: Castanets | Lil Wayne | The View
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