A decade after the first Castanets LP, Raposa has reprised the name for Decimation Blues, a fragmented 12-song album that trends toward the same path that he already spent five albums exploring.

Over the course of three albums and a grip of other songs Castanets main dude Ray Raposa has shown that he is capable of creating some of the more atmospheric country-folk we've heard in awhile.

The Castanets is Ray Raposa, a San Diego native whose album City of Refuge is an exercise in solitude. Raposa recorded the album in Overton, Nevada, a two-bar town ...

Often dismissed as little more than a niche songwriter futzing with the boundaries of his own woodsy, quasi-Americana palate, Ray Raposa (a.k.a. Castanets) has remained a sorely overlooked act. Often ...

Singer-songwriter Ray Raposa is settling down. By way of proof he offers this: “I have roommates and we have chickens, we are raising chickens in the backyard.” While for most of us this is domestic ...

Castanets commanding and enticing, sleek black gowns, ruffled white gowns, gowns with all the colors of a peacock’s tail—with these to Manhattan last week returned Dancer Argentina (real name: Antonia ...