Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers – Starlight HotelDownload “If I Can’t Trust You With a Quarter (How Can I Trust You with My Heart?)” My Morning Jacket – CircuitalDownload “Circuital” New York Dolls – Dancing Backward in High...

► The Echo's birthday month — the venue blows out 10 candles in December — swings into high gear with an Aquarium Drunkard-presented bill featuring the Soft Pack , Abe Vigoda , So Many Wizards and Slang Chickens . ► Genre-bending hometown heroes Ozomatli hold forth at Club Nokia. ► Sara Bareilles and Joshua Radin play to a sold-out Palladium. ► Arrica Rose & the ...'s hold forth at the Hotel Cafe, preceded by Jim Hanft. ► And Ocote Soul Sounds — the collective helmed [...]
Thursday, November 3, 2011 Once again Fun Fun Fun Fest is here, and I’m more than ready. Below you’ll find 10 bands that should be on your list of stuff to check out for at least a minute. By the way, I’m assuming you already know to catch bigger acts like Slayer, Ted Leo, Spoon, Tune Yards, etc., so I didn’t bother going over any of those. Enjoy. PS - Tickets for the festival are still available. Get on that already. [...]
More organic than electronic, Ocote Soul Sounds is clearly in the same pan-Latin lane that groups like Ozomatli have made their careers in.
Adrian Quesada of Grupo Fantasma and Martín Perna of Antibalas have teamed up as Ocote Soul Sounds to release Taurus.

First of all, I apologize for missing last week. I know there were many panties in a bunch, horses not withheld and beans that were not cooled. I apologize for the heartache, and I made a point of bringing you the best indie tracks from the past 2 weeks, so make sure you control yourself- this sabbath is gonna probably cause you to make a boner. A mishap that is. Anyway… First of all, I can't stop listening to "No Love" by the band Hooray For Earth. Which is a perfect band to kick off the sabbath with, [...]
After some delay (thanks to a nasty cold that had me sidelined for a while), here are The Wheel’s Still In Spin’s suggested new releases for this week. My Morning Jacket – Circuital. Download “Circuital” (mp3). With Jim James recognizable vocals drenched in reverb, My Morning Jacket have returned with their sixth album, an album grounded in sounds that make the band as familiar as James high pitched sing bellow. Ocote Soul Sounds – Taurus. Download “Pirata” (mp3). Ocote Soul Sounds is comprised of Adrian Quesada and Martin Perna from Grupo Fantasma and Antibala [...]
Between returning from the trek up to Sasquatch in central Washington, and catching up with everything since then, we are a 'lil late with this week's Best New Releases. Apologies on that. That said, of all the week's new releases, The Vaccines' What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? is definitely our top album pick, [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
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 [...]
Friday, May 6, 2011 Today's Quick Mention: Tons of great bands playing this weekend! The Eastern Sea, the Greenhornes, Jeff The Brotherhood, the Bandulus, Oh No Oh My, Generationals, Yoni Wolf and Lucinda Williams. See a show or two. Details can be found at Showlist Austin. And now to end this silly week. Enjoy. : Sam Roberts Band - Longitude (Featuring Elizabeth Powell) : Because of my love for Elizabeth Powell's work in Land Of Talk, I knew [...]
Grupo Fantasma's body-moving music dances its way to a second Grammy nomination.
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Cats STAY sleeping on this dude's mixes. Don't you continue to be one them. This mixtape was done by DJ Chorizo Funk for ESL recording artist, Ocote Soul Sounds . It includes songs from their latest album, Coconut Rock , remixes, and a couple songs from their previous albums. Check it: Coconut Rock Mixtape-Ocote Soul Sounds-Mixed by DJ Chorizo Funk by chorizofunk | Alt. download link : [...]
The members of Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada –- that’s the full title of the band –- are busybodies, not in the “snark, snark” way but in the “We also dabble in architecture and author coloring books” way. This outpouring of creativity makes them more of a commune of artists than a traditional list of players; this makes sense in the context of their music. Coconut Rock is not traditional Latin music, and neither is the back catalog of Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada. If the title Coconut Rock doesn’t [...]

Ma moustache... Track List: Rosa Parks | Outkast Getaway | The Salsoul Orchestra Under the Sun | Kidda Jealous Of Roses | Bibio I'll Be Around | Otis Gayle Tell Me, What Will It Be? (Take 2) | Javelin Terra Forming | Sweet Zombie Jesus Rooks | Shearwater What Else? [...]
Here's an album that was put together based on a fake movie about a young boy trying to reach the sun. Marrying soul, hip hop, funk and flute-filled tracks, Adrian Quesada and Martin Perna collaborated and released, El Nino y El Sol. Using minimal instruments, they were able to create one fine...
Non solo musica da destinare al circuito dei club modaioli di mezzo mondo. La ESL, etichetta gestita dai Thievery Corporation, volge le proprie attenzioni anche in direzione di coloro che di “downtempo†e “chill-out†non conoscono nemmeno il significato. “El Nino Y El Sol†precedentemente pubblicato nel 2005 e in questi giorni riproposto dalla label di Washington è la colonna sonora di un fantomatico film, del quale neppure Internet, fonte inesauribile di qualsiasi tipo di informazione, è capace di fornirci indicazioni credibili (da qui il forte dubbio che la pellicola in questione sia mai stata prodotta). Artefice di [...]