A decade after the first Castanets LP, Raposa has reprised the name for Decimation Blues, a fragmented 12-song album that trends toward the same path that he already spent five albums exploring.

The tender "Tell Them Memphis" is a breathy torch song that would sound great in ... the campfire balladry in a way that's unique to the Castanets brand. Misfires and all, Decimation Blues is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ray Raposa, the folk artist best known for his music as Castanets, has died at age 41. Via Pitchfork, the news came via Sufjan Stevens‘ Asthmatic Kitty label, who released much of Raposa’s ...