If like much of the Fonograma staff, you also happen to think Pony Bravo's Un Gramo de Fe has the best album cover in recent memory, then the chances you'll enjoy Kokoshca's clip for "La Fuerza" are certain. Iker Insausti and Jeffrey Frigula helmed a clip that cloaks religious cynicism and pukes on the sanity of human dimension. The clip's narrative linearity grasps its subjects with a divine intellect, finding a main purpose in that morbid "force" that drives agnosticism. The song itself is thrilling – it's fatalist but bruised in humor, hard-hitting but greedy for [...]

La banda española Kokoshca , quienes acaban de firmar contrato con el sello Elefant Records para editar un vinilo transparente de La Fuerza , presentan un video para esa misma canción. El clip fue dirigido por Iker Insausti y Jeffrey Frígula y presenta una estética pulp que pondría los pelos de punta al sacerdocio. La canción, por su parte, es un claro ejemplo de la potencia sonora a base de guitarras que [...]

2010 was quite a year. It saw graduations, festivals, a move from Athens to Barcelona, the discovery of a new city, a slight, um, slowing down of our blog activity, a World Cup, many flights (17 for me), and a lot of great music. So, without further ado, we present to you: So, how did we compile this rather fantastic list, you ask? Easy, we consulted our trusty last.fm profiles (see the bottom of this page for our individual profiles). We then each chose our top 25 and [...]

Selebrities | Soda Shop Brooklyn Maria Usbeck I could go ahead and tell you all about me. Where I'm from, weird corky things like how I can say hello in about 10 languages now and I fold paper boats with anything that comes to hand. Instead I'm going to explain why I play music. I studied classical piano until the age of 12. Started around 7 because when I was 6 I refused to stay in class. Literally [...]