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There is an article in this week's Phoenix entitled "Weird and Wired" which has a chunk in it on Spanish Dancer:

"And Anthony Ferreira, frontman for Spanish Dancer, is a sort of Renaissance City stab at Prince. Born to a Dominican father and Italian mother, he started out with post-punk outfit A Trillion Barnacle Lapse, which caught the attention of the Pitchfork web site, among other arbiters of cool.

Then it was on to the short-lived, but promising Honeyhander, described in these pages as a “dizzy brew of psychedelia and indie shoegazer,” before Ferreira re-emerged as Spanish Dancer — a greasy, flamboyant stage presence at his most outlandish in the early going.

Early Spanish Dancer was really kind of gaudy,” he said, in a recent telephone interview, a day after performing at the Spazzatorium, an underground club in Greenville, North Carolina. “I wore 60 gold chains and giant diamond earrings.”
But Ferreira, who was touring with drummer Eric Hastings, guitarist Matt Vaughan, and saxophone and electronics whiz Nick Caito, said Spanish Dancer has toned down the act a touch since then.

“People say to me, ‘This isn’t one big, sarcastic scam like it used to be,’ ” he said.

And there may be some wisdom behind the move.

Denizens of the electronic scene say a tassle of artists who have placed a premium on fun might go a little further with a touch of the serious."

The entire article is here: http://thephoenix.com/Providence/Music/84521-Weird-and-wired/