Live: The Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra Turn Arcade Fire, Santigold, And LCD Soundsystem Hits Into Latin Big-Band Anthems

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They do a mean "Keep the Car Running," honest. More pics below.
The Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra
Cameo Gallery
Wednesday, September 1

It's tremendously cheering to see that people actually dance during Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra shows -- unadulterated, mildly erotic, not at all ironic salsa dancing -- even though the four-gig-old band's repertoire of Animal Collective, Yeasayer, Japanther, TV on the Radio, and the like usually inspires nothing of the sort. (It's hard to picture what ironic salsa dancing would even look like.) Even less coordinated Cameo Gallery patrons are inclined to find a partner, stand back-to-back, and rub their butts together, which is delightfully incongruous when the song playing at the time is, say, LCD Soundsystem's "Someone Great." Only in Williamsburg.

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Here We Have The Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra Covering Animal Collective's "My Girls." Oh Yes.

Were we all aware that this existed, the Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra? That it "plays big Latin arrangements of some of the best indie music"? And what better way to announce yourself than by tackling the best indie-music song of all time? Ridiculous a concept as this may be, once it gets going (four minutes in or so) it sounds... markedly less ridiculous. No shows scheduled yet, but they've got a few other tunes up, including a version of TVOTR's "Wolf Like Me" that's even more bonkers:

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