Live: The Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra Turn Arcade Fire, Santigold, And LCD Soundsystem Hits Into Latin Big-Band Anthems
The Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra![]()
They do a mean "Keep the Car Running," honest. More pics below.
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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