News

El Guincho Announces Release Date of New Album

Pop Negro out September 14th

Aug 04, 2010

On September 14, El Guincho will release Pop Negro via Young Turks. Pop Negro is the follow up to EL Guincho's critically acclaimed album Alegranza. Fans can check out the first single "Bombay" hereMore


Interviews

Remembering First Concerts

Greatest Stories Ever Told

Jul 29, 2010

Musicians reflect on their first concerts. Includes stories from Tegan & Sara, Camera Obscura, Girl Talk, Owen Pallett, Art Brut, The Hold Steady, MGMT, Broken Social Scene, Ariel Pink, !!!, Mew, Real Estate, The Dears, Vivian Girls, Mayer Hawthorne, The Drums, Telekinesis, Fuck Buttons, El Guincho, and more. More

El Guincho

Sound Contradictions

Apr 01, 2008

Part musician, part ethnomusicologist, Pablo Díaz-Reixa isn’t your average sample-obsessed laptop artist. Growing up in the Canary Islands, an African archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean where the language is Spanish and the music is joyful, he noticed an apparent contradiction. Why were songs that were often recounting tales of devastation and oppression so happy? More