A couple of Best Videos Of The Week ago I mentioned how nearly every good clip that week was too long, too nude, or too violent to make it on to MTV; one was even removed from YouTube, verification…   Read Story »

If you were thinking of dressing as The Guincho for Halloween this year, you'd be smart to throw out that red jeans/hoodie promo photo from 2008. Something happened to El Guincho since earning his…   Read Story »

Before "FM Tan Sexy"'s R&B/pop-radio ghosts, it was the syncopated steel of "Bomaby" introducing us to BTW El Guincho's Pop Negro. The track now has its own NSFW video -- it's actually the…   Read Story »

Our first taste of Pop Negro, El Guincho's followup to BTW-era Alegranza, came via ebullient opener "Bombay." When asked about what went into the new collection, Pablo Díaz-Reixav mentioned that he…   Read Story »

And here comes Pablo Díaz-Reixav aka El Guincho, right when summer songlists need him most. True to the XL Records tweet that birthed it into internet consciousness, "Bombay," a track from the…   Read Story »

BTW El Guincho's second album Pop Negro is out this fall. As an ongoing bonus, he's releasing Piratas de Sudamérica, a series of limited-edition five-song EPs that are set to "run concurrently to…   Read Story »

When we first heard onetime BTW Pablo Díaz-Reixa, aka El Guincho, we were drawn in by "Antillas," a song we described as "a five-minute bundle of clattering loops and sunny harmonies." It was from…   Read Story »

When BTW Pablo Díaz-Reixa aka The Guincho first start spreading his way through all the blogspots, the people were like "this is on some Animal Collective shit, only tropicalia and sunny and perfect…   Read Story »

Onetime BTW and breakfast taco critic Pablo Díaz-Reixa, aka El Guincho, is having his originally self-released and limited-edition Alegranza! reissued by XL in time to warm up your fall/oncoming…   Read Story »

Australian troupe Architecture In Helsinki will be at Coachella next week -- as will we. It's reportedly one of their only (if not only) U.S. dates this year. After the hullabaloo (yes, hullabaloo)…   Read Story »