La Hell Gang recently signed to Brooklyn’s Mexican Summer label and played their first ever US show on Wednesday night at Glasslands. Having followed Chilean pyschedelic rock extensively over the last couple of years, it is always a rare but essential opportunity when a band rolls in to town. Given that La Hell Gang’s new album, Thru Me […]
Chilean band La Hell Gang sign to Mexican Summer
Chile (in particular, its capital city, Santiago) has been a melting pot of musical inspiration over the course of the last decade and is, in my opinion, delivering the best music around at an unrivaled consistency. New York is cottoning on to this sonic boom from South America; The Holydrug Couple and Föllakzoid have already been snapped up by Sacred […]
Mexican Summer Festival: Line-up to include Spiritualized, Ariel Pink, No Joy, Tamaryn & The Fresh & Onlys
The label’s festival will take place in Red Hook on October 11 and 12: Mexican Summer Five Year Festival – October 11th and 12th, 2013 Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231 Friday, October 11th Doors: 7 PM $25 Advance / $30 Day Of Ariel Pink Tamaryn The Fresh & Onlys Bobb Trimble’s Flying […]
Mexican Summer Celebrate 100th Release With Ford & Lopatin, Tamaryn, & Shannon Funchess
Since 2008, Mexican Summer has been cranking out records from some of our favorite artists like Best Coast, Washed Out, Kurt Vile, Real Estate, Nite Jewel and well, you get the picture, right? So we’re excited to see the release of their 100th record — two tracks from our synth-enamored friends Ford & Lopatin featuring […]
Quilt played Glasslands
Did you miss the Quilt EP release show at Glasslands last night? Bummer. Quilt is a band from Boston, one that will hopefully be gracing Brooklyn with much more of it’s presence. The band is primarily made up of one part Shane Butler and the other Anna Fox Rochinski (the record also has some Taylor […]