
The latest installment of "Push The Feeling" is tonight, Friday, May 11th at Underground SF , with live performances by Shortcircles and Chucha Santamaria y Usted , alongside YR SKULL and the epicsauce DJs. It's all free if you RSVP here . Music from all of the participants can be found below. Related Posts: [...]

Latin-influenced art-pop group ChuCha Santamaria were featured on the cover of the East Bay Express for the February 29th issue. If you missed picking up a physical copy, you can still read the overwhelmingly positive article online. Here's a snippet from the piece by Ellen Cushing describing how the band came into existence: Kirkland happened to have an old synthesizer lying around, so [lead singer Sofia] Córdova fed him some abstract ideas as to what she'd like the song to sound like — "palm [...]

On behalf of The Bay Bridged, San Francisco Mixtape Society and Treasure Island Music Festival , we would like to extend a thank you to the bands and attendees involved in Friday's Buried Treasure TIMF Popup Concert . No sailors clad in uniforms or North Beach slices of pizza could compare to the fun that was had inside San Franpsycho 's store that evening! Enjoy some photos of the event, including shots of the live sets from Melted Toys , ChuCha Santamaria y Usted , and [...]

Please join us tomorrow, Friday October 7th, at 6pm for our free Treasure Island Music Festival -themed "Buried Treasure" happy hour party ( RSVP on Facebook ) at San Franpsycho's flagship store (1314 Grant Avenue, San Francisco) in North Beach. We'll have performances by Melted Toys and ChuCha Santamaria Y Usted , as well as a DJ set by Elephant and Castle . Be sure to bring a mixtape with the theme "Buried Treasure": [...]

Every Monday, we'll be offering you early picks for some of the week's best concerts. Do you think we omitted something worthwhile? Let us know in the comments! Be sure to visit our Local Concert Calendar for an expanded set of daily listings. Friday: The Bay Bridged Presents "Buried Treasure," a Treasure Island Music Festival Happy Hour with Melted Toys, ChuCha Santamaria Y Usted, Elephant and Castle (DJ set) Whatever your other plans this week, [...]

If you are like us, you probably enjoy the following things: local bands, free shows, mixtapes, and the Treasure Island Music Festival . On Friday, October 7th, we're throwing a party combining all of these elements as something we're calling "Buried Treasure," a free Treasure Island Music Festival pop-up concert and mixtape exchange taking place at San Franpsycho's flagship store (1314 Grant Avenue, San Francisco) in North Beach. On the music front, we're psyched to have performances by locals Melted Toys and [...]

It's Rock Make Street Festival's 4th annual event and what an event it'll be. Many respected local and kids’ rock bands along with over 100 local arts and crafts vendors and food from local vendors. I was a big fan of last year's show and this one has the likes of Tartufi, Battlehooch, Birds & Batteries, Bare Wires, Phantom Kicks, James and Evander, Cannons & Clouds, Sean Smith, ChuCha Santamaria Y Usted, Mist Giant, Vons De Qua and the SF Rock Project’s House Band . The event is taking place on Saturday, September [...]

This episode is sponsored by Audyssey . Mixtape: 2011 Rock Make Street Festival Preview Mix (Podcast #257) As we noted in the last episode of our podcast, we're extremely exited about our fourth annual 2011 Rock Make Street Festival , taking place at Treat Avenue at 18th Street in San Francisco on Saturday, September 17th from 12pm to 7pm ( RSVP on Facebook ). Rock Make is a free, all ages, all day event, featuring tons of [...]
[ download ] [tweetmeme] Chucha Santamaria y Usted don’t just have one of the longest names in the indie community, they back up those letters with musical heft. “Fiebre Tropical” clocks in at only 2:40, yet it more than justifies the length of their moniker. “Fiebre Tropical” is the first single from Chucha Santamaria y Usted’s self-titled debut mini LP , which the Austin boutique label Young Cubs released in June. Though their sound encompasses that of an entire ensemble, Chucha Santamaria y [...]

The Bay Bridged , Tartufi , and Cookie and the Dude are proud to announce the lineup of local bands and artists performing at the fourth annual Rock Make Street Festival , returning to Treat Avenue at 18th Street in San Francisco on Saturday, September 17th from 12pm to 7pm ( Facebook event ). Widely celebrated as the Mission's only free, all ages, all day celebration of local independent music, arts, crafts, and food, Rock Make [...]
Download Oakland duo ChuCha Santamaria Y Usted’s loud electroclash version of forgotten Lene Lovich song ‘Home.’

I whip my hair back and forth. Not because I am a teenage girl (although I sometimes act like one) but because there is a party. No, it's not in my pants. This party is in my ears, and soon it will be in yours as well. I am pleased to present to you The Indie Sabbath - more refreshing than an ice-cold soda in the middle of the desert. For me, music is the purest form of communication this world has to offer. I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. [...]
Oakland's ChuCha Santamaria Y Usted recently released the duo's first - and highly recommended - "mini-LP" of electronic pop, out now on Young Cubs . "Fanta Fabuloso" is the band's new video, featuring some unsettling visuals and an enigmatic dancer. ChuCha Santamaria Y Usted - "Bright Young Light Pt. 23 Related Posts: Chucha Santamaria Y Usted - "Fiebre Tropical"

"Somethin is Better Than Nothin" from Tashaki Miyaki "For The One" from Waters "Fiebre Tropical" from Chucha Santamaria Y Usted "Birds of North America" from Meredith Bragg "Further" from Correatown "Blue [...]

When you are in the depths of Winter it can feel as if Spring will never arrive, and yet here we are, with the weather growing warmer, the days becoming longer and the skies often seeming bluer. We're riding bicycles through city streets, planning camping trips with friends, drinking beers while watching baseball games and going on long hikes through the hills. It's a good time of year. A lot of the music that I've been obsessing over speaks to the change in the season too. By and large these aren't songs for a day at a beach, which isn't [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Chucha Santamaria Y Usted : "Fiebre Tropical" [mp3] from Chucha Santamaria Y Usted (out June 28th) search for more Chucha Santamaria Y Usted posts at Largehearted Boy Cold Showers : "I [...]

Chucha Santamaria Y Usted - "Fiebre Tropical" Sofía Córdova and Matthew Kirkland are Chucha Santamaria Y Usted , an Oakland duo crafting forward-thinking electronic dance-pop that confronts ideas bigger than just getting people moving: The concept for the album was born out of a general dissatisfaction with the conventions of art making while Sofía pursued an MFA degree during her last year in grad school. The album, which serves to chronicle various Caribbean histories ranging from the ‘discovery’ of Puerto Rico in 1492 ("Fiebre Tropical") to personal [...]

Chucha Santamaria Y Usted - "Fiebre Tropical" There's something indirectly hypnotic about singer Sofia Córdova's cadence throughout "Fiebre Tropical" (ex. at 0:45, 1:16); her voice consumes your attention, almost as if it was the onset of a fever. Although it begins and ends with a celestial ambiance, the core of the song is filled with an ominous sound that balances light and dark -- light enough to dance to and dark enough to possess a bit of a mystique. The song is said to be about the discovery of Puerto Rico in [...]

Originally hailing from Puerto Rico and New York respectively, Chucha Santamaria Y Usted is a duo based in Oakland, CA consisting of Sofía Córdova and Matthew Kirkland. After a mutual discovery/re-appreciation of Italo disco, Latin freestyle, and a myriad other pop dance sub-genres Matt and Sofia created a band in an effort not only to have fun but a device in which they could revisit the history of dance music. Sounding like the perfect replacement for Bonde Do Role, this dynamic duo creates sexy Latin tinged electro floor burners that [...]
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Videos Monarchy ~ " I Won't Let Go " Click here to view the embedded video. Onra ~ " Sitting Back " Click here to view the embedded video. Baron Bane ~ " Echoes "( mp3 ) Click here to view the embedded video. [...]