Showing posts with label El Guincho. Show all posts
Showing posts with label El Guincho. Show all posts

Thursday, 31 July 2008

El Guincho album finally set to see the light of day/record store shelves


Holy cats, it's already Thursday! Boy, time really flies when you are unemployed and spending the first two days of your week on the open water, boating through Lake Minnetonka or tubing down the Cannon River. Yes! ENVY ME! Perhaps you can pay your bills on time and don't go through your day wondering, "What will happen if I can't pay rent this month either? I'm pretty smart, why will no one give me a chance?" But to hell with all that. I have very little, but what I do have...you will ENVVVVVY....

One of those things I do have, and that you probably don't if you are a US resident, is Spanish rocker dude El Guincho's full-length album Alegranza. It's awesome, up until now it's been import only, and kinda $$$. But at last, here it is on the horizon--a worldwide release date! Special thanks to Young Turks/XL Recordings for finally releasing this thing on October 6 for people in the parts of the world that are not the United States, and on October 7 for the parts of the world that ARE.

While I'm discussing the Guinch, I should probably add that some previously reported tour dates are no longer gonna happen. So here they are, and here's the one that still is on the way.


NO!!!!!
08-08 Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival
08-14-16 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop


YESSSSS...
09-13 London, England - End of the Road Festival

Friday, 20 June 2008

So this is El Guincho.


There he is. I have been wondering what he looks like, if El Guincho IS in fact a he, and not a band. This is because I really don't know much about the dude, except that I heard a song on Radio K that I liked by him. Alas, in America right now his album Alegranza is only available as a pricey import, and I don't have internet at home so I can't really listen to the Guinch's MySpace jams and describe them to you in a witty yet effective manner. I don't know what it sounds like, you tell me! El Guincho!

He's on tour, too! Behold...El Guincho, the guy I can't say anything about really.

El Guincho

07.20.08 - Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival
07.22.08 - Toronto, ON - The Mod Club*
07.23.08 - Montreal, PQ - La Sala Rossa*
07.24.08 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East Downstairs*
07.25.08 - New York, NY - Seaport Music Festival*
07.26.08 - Los Angeles, CA - J Paul Getty Museum
07.28.08 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent**


*with Atlas Sound
**with Tussle, Lemonade