Ray Raposa is not afraid of abstractions. “Those are the terms I prefer to approach things on,” the twentysomething songwriter says from a tour stop in Arizona. Which is not surprising, given the ...

Ray Raposa of Castanets has never allowed convention to determine his life or his music. At the age of 15, he tested out of high school and traveled America on a Greyhound bus. On record, his ...

After his Castanets project vanished off the map in 2009, Raymond Raposa brings the experimental folk project back for another go-round. Decimation Blues is a fragmented album that trends toward the ...

The singer-songwriter behind psychedelic folk-blues band the Castanets has passed away. “It is with great sorrow that the family of Raymond Raposa announce his passing today,” reads an online ...

In 2001, Jesse Ainslie quit his Chapel Hill band, Straight No Chaser, and moved to Florida. Soon, he was in New York, studying creative writing and musicology at the New School University. In 2005, he ...