It’s a lovely song that you ought to listen to, so do that below. Decimation Blues is out 8/19 on Asthmatic Kitty , and Castanets plays the Star Theater in Portland this Saturday 6/14 with Jolie ...

Flamenco contains all the human emotions. It is a tripartite artistic expression — laying down its own gauntlet with dance, guitar and vocal style. Visually its speed, its twists, its ...

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 ...

Castanets commanding and enticing, sleek black gowns, ruffled white gowns, gowns with all the colors of a peacock’s tail—with these to Manhattan last week returned Dancer Argentina (real name ...

According to the Castanets’ biography, frontman Raymond Raposa tested out of high school at age 15, spending the next few years traveling via Greyhound bus. The songs on First Light’s Freeze ...

Ray Raposa’s voice doesn’t appear until track four, and the preceding songs are sketches of guitar noise bouncing against close walls. When he sings, his words grasp at self-understanding.