Tag archive for ‘Porno Para Ricardo’
Recording new Frank’s Enemy tune: Submarine
It’s a cover of a Porno Para Ricardo song, “El Submarino,” translated to English by moi. I finished the drums last night (no I didn’t play them, I used this, and I’m very happy), and started practicing the git (my old Ibanez downtuned to drop B). It got me into the old mood. Check this [...]
Open mic at Music Depot last Saturday
Onstage at Music Depot, September 6, 2008. First Saturday of the month means it’s time to renew that monthlong tradition of playing a set at Music Depot’s open mic. Former Frank’s Enemy bandmate and Music Depot mangler Marc was running it, as usual, making it all fun and smooth. I took my two eldest offspring, [...]
Open mic at Music Depot last Saturday
First Saturday of the month means it’s time to renew that monthlong tradition of playing a set at Music Depot’s open mic. Former Frank’s Enemy bandmate and Music Depot mangler Marc was running it, as usual, making it all fun and smooth. I took my two eldest offspring, Astrid and Cedric, along. Cedric joined me [...]
Porno Para Ricardo in Rolling Stone in espani!
Read it at Black Sheep (Charlie’s place).
La Babosa Azul website officially up and running
It looks beautiful and very informative (if you know your espani) (or use a web-based translation engine), and it’s right here. Just for fun, here’s the bio as read through the “brain” of Yahoo’s Babel Fish: Our friendly of this powerful alternative band present/display their independent musical project in the rockera scene of Havana. In [...]
Stuck on a blue snail
I’ve really been getting into Cuando amanezca el dia, the free full-length project from La Babosa Azul (The Blue Snail) which I presented as a guest download at area1234 after Charlie Bravo gave me the link. La Babosa Azul is a Cuban alt-rock group fronted by Ciro Diaz Penedo and Renay Kairus of Porno Para [...]
Fallout from Gorki’s plight, tears from the weather
The world is taking note. Especially noteworthy and worthy of vigilance is the reaction from the left and Castro’s apologists. The best one I’ve seen is ‘Gorki is no Havel of Havana.’ Thankfully, Charlie and Tellechea have been busy dismantling the barbs at their blogs, where you can read all the specifics. At first glance, [...]
Raul Castro, rock and roll publicist
Pretty funny post from Charlie about being innocently asked who Porno Para Ricardo’s publicist is (when it comes to how things work in Cuba, few people get it) and answering ‘Raul Castro’ with tongue in cheek. By trying to muzzle the band, Castro has unwittingly become the greatest catalyst of fame for PPR. But is [...]
Post trial wrap-up
Highlight’s from Charlie’s interview with Gorki and Ciro: Gorki and Ciro thanked everyone the world over for taking up their case, and confirmed that it was the pressure from outside and the continuous presence of the foreign press that made the authorities back off. The charges were reduced to something along the lines of disturbing [...]
A thousand words
…and the picture that lauched them.
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