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- May
Unless you were born with one of those silver spoons, you likely work a day job, sneaking time for your own business when not taking care of someone else's. You're not alone. Every week, Brandon Stosuy finds out how our favorite indie artists make ends meet...A couple of weeks ago I ran into Raymond Raposa, a.k.a. Castanets, at Spuyten Duyvil, a beer and wine bar in Brooklyn. Always on the lookout for musicians with day jobs, I asked him a bit about his work history over some dark stouts, and found out he'd been a bona fide surf instructor before entering the more prosaic waters of record store clerking. In honor of this post-Memorial Day Quit Your Day Job, I thought it made sense to talk with Raposa about dropping in and hanging ten even if at this point he's only, well, California dreaming.
Adding some storm clouds to this idyllic beach scene, Asthmatic Kitty passed along a very non-summertime track "Into The Night" from the equally winterized First Light's Freeze. No worries: the break from humidity's well balanced by the California-emblazoned sailboat shirt and Big Kahuna beaded necklace Raposa's sporting in the accompanying image. Currently looking for a new job (while wearing a beard that rivals Oldham's) he's at work on Castanets third album, due out this fall on AK.