Everywhere you turn, it seems like an old movie or TV series is getting the remake treatment. This often gets fans of the originals up in arms, and the product can easily become an uninspired retread, where no new life is put into the work. Rodrigo y Gabriela could have fallen into this trap with their newest album Area 52 , in which they reinterpret several songs from their previous albums. Fortunately, they've managed to come out with an album that separates itself from their early work while, for the most part, maintaining their personal sound. [...]
The preeminent Mexican guitar duo rattles Havana with a Cuban orchestra. Rerecording your greatest hits with an orchestra seems like the uninspired move of a washed-up band who has a record contract to fulfill. Area 52 is not that, rather a genuine undertaking of self-rearrangement and ethno-musical immersion. For the uninitiated, Rodrigo Y Gabriella is an acoustic guitar duo from Mexico. They take 12 nylon strings as far as they can go: Rodrigo plays explosively fast leads that are equally inspired by heavy metal and Latin...
The Making of Area 52: Rodrigo Y Gabriela Sneak Peak Rodrigo Y Gabriela released their new album Area 52 on January 24th. The experimental album incorporates the dynamic 13-piece band C.U.B.A. on the latest record, re-visiting older Rodrigo Y Gabriela tracks to blend together a new layer of Cuban flavour into the music. "Area 52 became a funny reference about a world we didn't know. About a musical style you think you know, but [...]
Rodrigo Y Gabriela released their new album Area 52 on January 24th. The experimental album incorporates the dynamic 13-piece band C.U.B.A. on the latest record, re-visiting older Rodrigo Y Gabriela tracks to blend together a new layer of Cuban flavour into the music. "Area 52 became a funny reference about a world we didn't know. About a musical style you think you know, but once you are there and watch how Cubans hear, feel and play their music, really for us they were like aliens." Rodrigo Sanchez explains the reasoning behind the [...]
You'll all have to bear with me on this one; I don't think I've ever had to write a review as challenging as this. When a band doesn't have lyrics, and no vocals, a significant portion is gone at least to those of us who've grown accustomed to the traits of popular music. At first I thought 'where are the themes?! I need lyrical themes to open the whole thing up!' Lyrical themes help set up a mood for the music to follow. So it seems with Rodrigo y Gabriela that the music isn't following anything or saying anything or [...]
There have been so many notable new releases that dropped in the past week that music lovers have plenty of great, new music to keep them busy, and which explains partly why we're late with this post (this week's releases will be posted soon, but first the really good stuff). While January is usually a [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
The best online music "recommend-er" would be the equivalent of a good buddy-aware of all of your music tastes along with your personality; able to think of how the nuances in who you are which would match up perfectly with X new band or Y new rapper. That's why no Pandora will be as good at giving great music recommendations than friends. Luckily one of Moo's buddies passed us an album by this unique Mexican duo named Rodrigo y Gabriela way back sophomore year. Since then I've seen them twice (both times sharing a magical high five with Gabriela) and [...]
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When Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero, a.k.a. Rodrigo y Gabriela , first burst into America's consciousness back in 2006, they were received with a romanticized infatuation. It wasn't the virtuosic fretboard acrobatics, which were remarkable and mesmerizing, nor was it the impressive and novel songwriting, a Frankensteinian mélange of flamenco guitar, Mexican and Irish folk music, rock, jazz, and thrash metal. There was just something so idealistic about their story: two Mexican metalheads go to Ireland to busk on the streets and end up as international superstars. There was also just something so unbelievable about so [...]
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If 2012 is really the apocalypse, we'll at least be serenaded by lots of great music as our world goes up in flames. Yes, it's another great week of new releases filled with KEXP favorites, new and old. In fact, we've long been fans of Nada Surf , who return with their sixth album this week, which according to our Music Director, Don Yates, "finds them injecting some welcome additional energy and aggression into their melodic pop-rock sound via quicker tempos and some bristling electric guitar lines." Fans needn't fear that the New York band is trying to recapture [...]
Tickets for Andrew W.K. 's entire upcoming tour are now on presale . Tickets go on sale at noon for Rodrigo y Gabriela 's Radio City Music Hall show. Emily Wells is moving up in the world and headlining Bowery Ballroom on 4/9. Tickets on sale at noon. Tickets go on sale at noon for M83 's Summerstage show. [...]
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Since bursting onto the scene with their 2006 self-titled album Rodrigo Y Gabriela have built a reputation for being a dynamic live act showcasing their rhythmic blend of fast picking, driving acoustic guitar music. On January 24 the Mariachi Metal duo will release their sixth studio album Area 52 via ATO Records. The record, produced by Peter Asher, features nine tracks from their catalog that have been re-imagined and re-recorded with the help of 13-piece Cuban orchestra known as C.U.B.A. This [...]
With the aid of a relentlessly proficient 13-piece Cuban orchestra, the duo reinvents its sound on Area 52. It utterly reconstructs the Rodrigo y Gabriela template, and morphs it into something worldlier, bigger, less formulaic and more surprising. Rodrigo y Gabriela's new album, Area 52, comes out Jan. 24. Read more »
Latin rock duo Rodrigo y Gabriela have scheduled spring tour dates in support of their upcoming fourth studio album, Area 52 . Kicking off in Seattle on April 3rd, the trek will see the duo joined by 13-piece Cuban orchestra C.U.B.A., who collaborated on the recording of Area 52 . Area 52 hit stores on January 24th via ATO Records and you can stream it now at NPR.org . Rodrigo y Gabriela 2012 Tour Dates: 04/03 - Seattle, WA @ The Paramount Theatre [...]
O ne of our fifty most anticipated albums of 2012 , bedroom pop composer Mauro Remiddi (aka Porcelain Raft ) will release his debut LP, Strange Weekend , on January 24th via Secretly Canadian. Below, you can stream the 10-track effort in its entirety (via The Hype Machine ). Other albums available for an early spin include: - Nada Surf's seventh LP, The Stars Are Indifferent , is out January 24th via Barsuk. Stream it now at NPR.org . - Rodrigo Y Gabriella's fourth LP, Area 52 [...]
Dizem, aqui no Brasil, que o ano só realmente começa após o carnaval. A mesma máxima não vale para a indústria fonográfica dos EUA e Europa, aparentemente, e 2012 já está acelerando por lá. Pelo menos é o que indica o tradicional pacote de streamings da NPR, lançado toda segunda feira sob o título de First Listen, que hoje incluiu quatro excelentes lançamentos. Começamos com The Lion's Roar , o novo álbum das garotas Johanna e Klara Soderberg , ou First Aid Kit , que agradará os fãs do folk e do country [...]
Rodrigo y Gabriela are releasing their new album Area 52 next Tuesday, January 24th. The album, recorded mostly in Havana with a 13 piece Cuban orchestra is streaming now in its entirety at NPR Music here .
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