When I first moved here, I liked to stop by Bembe on a slow winter night like, say, Tuesday, and order a fresh coconut drink ("Coco Loco" or something) to make me forget it was freezing outside. I'm not even sure it will ever snow again, but I'm still bummed that it gets dark around 4pm and I'm jonesing for some tropicalia. So tonight's double bill of El Guincho and Lemonade —talkwasadream favorites from back in the summer days—will hit the spot by being exotic, electric, eclectic, eccentric... If not like a smooth coconut cocktail, then like some combo of herbal kombucha and a dose of theraflu—fizzy, warm and weird, and not something you should imbibe before operating heavy machinery. But you'll escape the holiday crisis season to another place, for sure.

° Lemonade - Sunchips (Ghosts on Tape Remix) mp3

° Lemonade - Sunchips mp3

° El Guincho - Costa Paraiso mp3

° El Guincho - Cuando Maavilla Fui mp3

Lemonade's Blissout and Guincho's Palmitos Park were my summer anthems. Sunchips is my new favorite, in which the bass just drops on top of you. The Ghosts on Tape Remix pushes the beat to nasty levels, and is part of Lemonade's new Remixtape. If you're missing tonight for band practice or something, you can also catch them Friday at Zebulon and next Tuesday at Annex with Friendly Fires.

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Tuesday, December 2 @ Le Poission Rouge
El Guincho and Lemonade
$12 / doors 10p / music 10:30p
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