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What the juice?
February 15th, 2012
This appeared on my facebook wall today from a couple of friends, it’s funny and silly…
Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem feat. Rita Moreno
February 15th, 2012
I’ve heard the new Muppets flick is well worth a watch, hopefully Animal is on his usual form:
Are there any Spaniards out there who know what Miss Moreno said?
Stream Grimes new album!
February 14th, 2012
NPR the fantastic non profit website that somehow manages to get the previews of some of the best up and coming new release’s have given us the first listen to Grimes new 4AD release ‘Visions’ and it’s an absolute cracker! Canadian Claire Boucher AKA Grimes is an electronic artist, DJ and producer and a big influence on El Rancho endorsed club night DEEP GROAN. Grimes wooed El Rancho early last year with the tracks ‘Devon’ and ‘Rosa’ from her Arbutus albums ‘Geidi Primes’ and ‘Halfaxa’. This is future pop music, eerie and seductive, dark and euphoric and built up around the looping and sampling of programmed sounds and vocals which are quite atmospherically intoxicating if you let it take you away.
Click here to listen to one of the most eagerly anticipated albums of the year and one which will no doubt top the polls at the end of the year.
GRIMES plays The Berkeley Suite, Glasgow on Monday 7th May. El Rancho caught Grimes supporting How To Dress Well at the Arches last year where after unsettling technical/sound hitch’s she pulled it right back in to a simply stunning set, albeit short.
Check the video for the totally amazing track ‘Vanessa’ from her previous Darkbloom EP.
Chromatics cover Neil Young, perfecto.
February 13th, 2012
Italians do not bad at all here with this simple but beautiful cover of Neil Young’s ‘Into The Black’ by Portland’s Chromatics. It’s off their new album ‘Kill for Love’ coming out on Italians Do It Better, home of Glass Candy, Desire and founder Mike Simonetti. The video is typically cool and hazy and as lovely as the song…
Chromatics aint scared to tackle classics as they’ve proved before with their equally stunning version of Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’.