Artist The Juan MacLean
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The Juan MacLean
Intriguingly inconsistent and often sneakily great, DFA affiliate The Juan MacLean is a dance band that plays grizzled, expansive electro and post-rock. The sound proves better the more it tends toward the former, but the rock side factors more when the group coheres as a real band. It’s been a long time since 2005’s breakout Less Than Human, but MacLean finally returned in 2009 with The Future Will Come, a buoyant, bouncy record that receives an extra disco twist with the help of guest vocalist Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem. Here, the group will perform a DJ set behind MacLean's recent entry in the DJ Kicks series, which finds him paying homage to the classic house music that (along with many other things) informs his sound.
Updated 05/25/2010

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