Glass Spells

Glass Spells, the energetic band from San Diego, California, delivers hypnotic female vocals over piercing synths, funky bass lines, and dance beats. Glass Spells is known for their live shows and fusion of electronic and rock music.

The band members are Anthony Ramirez (Bass / Synthesizers), Tania Costello (Vocals), and Michael Buehl on drums. Glass spells have won the attention of many by its characteristic sound, which incorporates several elements from Indie, post punk, and modern electronic to create rhythms that will not get out of your head. - 91X - San Diego

From Southern California, Glass Spells arrives to make us understand the importance of a love relationship.
After three years of the publication of his debut album Glass Spells (2016), Glass Spells , he is back to introduce us "Don't Save Me" , his new theme that emphasizes every second the essence of the grouping in a game and experimentation with danceable rhythms that will make you feel in another galaxy.

The group formed by Anthony Ramirez (bass, synthesizers), Tania Costello , (voice) and Michael Buehl (drums) were interested in addressing a very current issue: toxic relationships.

"The lyrics were inspired by the current scene of romantic dates and how manipulative and hurtful they can end those relationships sometimes. Often, people find themselves in a relationship that seems to be going well, until they realize that their partner hide things, stop talking and come back and chase them again after the damage is done, " Tania said in a press release. - Indie Rocks Magazine!

In 2014, Glass Spells -- a blood-pumping dance/punk quartet based out of San Diego/Calexico -- released their debut single “I Feel It” and all at once, hearts were a-flutter. The band turned heads with a sublime marriage of noisy punk-fueled energy set to four-on-the-floor beats and synth riffs -- and it was damn near impossible not to fall in love with them (so I did, and subsequently wrote about for the SoundDiego Record Club).
Back in May, the band returned to grimy dance floors with a new singer, Suz Gonzalez (the rest of the band’s lineup currently consists of bassist/keyboardist Anthony Ramirez, drummer Mallory Garcia and keyboardist Michael Rascon), and an infectious leadoff single (“Away From Space”) from their new self-titled album.
Now, we’re proud to offer up an exclusive SoundDiego premiere of that new record in all of its bubbly, bouncy, post-punk-y (do I hear some Prayers-esque influence in there too?) attitude. Fans of LCD Soundsystem, Crystal Castles and Moving Units, eat your hearts out


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Originally from Calexico and now hopscotching between Southern California metropolises, Glass Spells have forged ahead for three years now in the footsteps of ’80s disco-punk luminaries. The band — Anthony Ramirez and Suz Gonzalez, along with Michael Rasco and Mallory Garcia — debuted with an EP in 2014, and “Danger Streets” is the third single they’ve released this year. Synth-drenched with a buzzing bass line, Gonzalez sounds like a brunette Blondie, declaring “Bad decisions / makes good stories.” The song, the band says, “is about breaking free from your own fears, and expressing your ideas and emotions regardless of the response of others. It’s about taking risks and allowing others to connect and let love. It might feel dangerous, but there is always fun in that.” Dancing your trepidation away? We’re all for that. - Buzzbands L.A

SoCal quartet Glass Spells cut their teeth in Calexico, playing shows on both sides of the border and anywhere else their propulsive disco-punk could get bodies moving. The co-ed band — bassist/synth player Anthony Ramirez, vocalist Suz Gonzalez, synth player Michael Rascon and drummer Mallory Garcia — have been working on a follow-up to 2014’s “Desperate Love” EP, and the new single “Rebellion” (out Friday) announces itself with a starburst of electronics before teleporting you straight to the dancefloor. It’s kind of DFA done DIY — over bumptious synths and funky bass, Gonzalez’s punky vocals imagine the Yeah Yeah Yeahs or the Gossip doing !!! or Moving Units. Disco dynamos, take note. - Buzzbands LA

Like Craft Spells’ Gallery cranked up to an evil heat; hear Glass Spells’ “Rebellion” that delivers a Mexico by San Diego sound that could be described as something of a southwest response to the movements and excitement surrounding Downtown Boys/Malportado Kids. Referencing the aforementioned icons in moniker, sounds, and delivery of defiance; Glass Spells prove to be the next great threat of excitement emerging from the Southern California corridors - Impose Magazine

have been enjoying the blendo punk disco hybrid sound of Glass Spells for a few years. As present as the band is especially when performing live it has always felt like their sound doesn't exist in the now but, instead, percolates in both the past and the future at the same time. Their self titled album just dropped and as Away From Space carried me to a different plane of dark vast star ships and mysterious planets I immediately had a sharp tinge of nostalgia and coolness too. It is hard to explain but the runaway beat of Rebellion and the heavy bass that ping pongs from low to high notes and back again of Curse Machine feels like 80's new wave re-imagined. Like flipping through Polaroids there are the ghosts of Interpol, Duran Duran, The Human League, New Order or Siouxsie and the Banshees in the synth flooded thumping majesty of Danger Streets.

Glass Spells sound is so fucking badass while dipping into a sweet comfort of what was before. It is the kind of hazing nostalgic tone I felt while deeply involved with the Netflix runaway hit "Stranger Things". The Duffer Brothers are you listening?? In fact, watch scenes from the series, turn off the sound and play Danger Streets or Rebellion (the line "Slay the monsters" is perfect) and it all fits like a glove. All of the sudden I am hearing Glass Spells in a different way. Without Your Laws feels like a full on proto punk attack existing in 1979 (or maybe 2079) and Young Fun with it's stalking cadence that falls away to the abandon of an intoxicated rave.

When it comes to the public embracing a sound timing is everything. Glass Spells sound feels super relevant right now at least for those who get what is happening. Get it. It is so on point and so rapturously fun.

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Like most people who live in Calexico — the border town about 90 miles east of San Diego — Anthony Ramirez often heads south to the much larger Mexicali, on the other side of the border, for fun.

“There is nothing to do in Calexico,” Ramirez tells the Reader. “If you live here, you have to go to Mexicali. Something is always happening, Thursday through Saturday. It’s a party city. To me, Tijuana is the ghetto version of Las Vegas, and Mexicali is just a smaller TJ.”

Ramirez played in punk bands when he went to high school in Calexico. As he visited Mexicali over the years he encountered a scene immersed in techno music.

“The music scene is a lot bigger in San Diego,” Ramirez says. “Down here there are a lot of raves.”

So, Ramirez merged his love of playing fast, aggressive rock with the synth-driven electronic dance music that his neighbors love.

Ramirez, who plays bass and synthesizer, formed the band Glass Spells, which created its own “disco-punk” niche. “I wanted to do something similar but not a completely electronic thing.”

The two-man/two-woman band has a live drummer and does not rely on pre-recorded tracks. “We are considered electronic because of our synthesizer, but it is simply replacing the guitar with the melody and playing the leads.”

The buzz around Glass Spells has led to shows in Los Angeles and Mexico. This Saturday, they headline an afternoon food-and-music fest in Tijuana. On August 2 they played to a sold-out show at the Slide Bar in Fullerton and the week before were invited to play a Comic-Con theme party.

Should Glass Spells’ disco-punk continue to catch on, it would recall another genre-fusing movement that came from Baja California some 12 years ago, when Tijuana artists launched Nortec. Artists like Bostich+Fussible created dance music using samples of tubas, clarinets, and snare drums from Mexico’s norteño street bands.

But unlike Nortec, which was born in the studio, Glass Spells’ disco-punk is known for its live shows.

The understated Ramirez is not trying to create a blueprint for the Next Big Thing from Baja.

Past Event
Glass Spells, Glasmus, Jara the Band
Sunday, August 17, 2014, 8 p.m.
Casbah, 2501 Kettner Boulevard, San Diego
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“I wanted to play dance music and do something different. If other bands follow, that’s okay. If something happens with it, that would be awesome.”

Glass Spells headlines the VCAF (Vegetarian Cuisine and Arts Fair) Saturday, a free-admission, all-ages, day-long event at the Zona del Rio food garden (FB/VC&AF).

“Some people say TJ is dangerous. I’ve never had a dangerous experience in TJ or Mexicali.”

Glass Spells will make its San Diego debut at the Casbah on August 17. - San Diego Reader

From my point of view, there are two cases in which music can be evaluated. For example, most of the bands are an evolution of his sound, seek to overcome what has been done in some previous or drive, if not, do something different but with the same quality standards, discovering how far they can get, and in the best, achieving a record that is billed as his magnum opus.

On the other hand, there are bands looking energize and unleash the madness of bodies within a dance floor, they do not seek to deliver a masterpiece, but infect and transmit reactions in the listener. This does not mean that electronic genres such as trance, but with electronic music sense in which keyboard, synth / drum machine carry the base of each song without discarding the use of guitars, bass and a defiant voice required.

This is the case of Glass Spells , formerly known as Therapist, a band of three original pieces of Calexico, California. The group in question takes to the track elements known as the nu disco, dance punk, funk and energy, lots of energy and seemingly inexhaustible theme is that each group seems to have more of what the human body can give.

Have similar characteristics with many of the names that made ​​their mark during last decade and are now immediate reference. Spells Glass is able to cut up the bass strings with the same wild way that made ​​The Rapture , its female vocalist has a scruffy power and inficionada like Karen O and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs from Fever To Tell , but his dance direction in the battery is as accurate and precise as did LCD Soundsystem over three discs.

About this same current groups existed who died before being known, some one-hit, which came just above average and only a handful who managed to devote more Glass Spells has enough to not die in the attempt.

As I write this in the stereo sounds Heart Beats , the EP Therapist and "I Feel It", with a new topic under the name Glass Spells . I swear I've spent more time writing the feet moving and the joint of rhythms, songs and every angle of the strings are so infectious that it is impossible to behave indifferent once the button is pressed play - Indie Rocks! Magazine

For fans of Brazil's CSS and the now-defunct (and highly missed) Death From Above 1979, Glass Spells' "Desperate Love" EP will prove to be a welcome (and frequently played) addition to your music library. The self-described "dance punk" group, whose members live along the U.S./Mexico border, also straddle the line between disco, electro and psych pop. The EP is a harsh, distorted barrage of cold dance beats; prominent, fuzzed-out bass lines; frantic New Wave synthesizers; and alternately sweet and barbed vocals from singer Mellany Ramirez. The lead single "I Feel It" mixes a cowbell-heavy disco beat with wavy bass lines and a Blondie-esque vocal swagger -- which makes it impossible to resist. The rest of the five-song EP is just as infectious, with "Disco in Black" heaving with grungy sex appeal and the opening track "Everything Else" shredding speakers with its harsh, gothic funk -- owing just as much to LCD Soundsystem as it does to Joy Division. It might sound sweet when Ramirez sings lines like, "Your love is all I need," but when layered over the band's delirious, dissonant stomp, she might as well be singing, "Go f--- yourself."

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Raise your hands if you’re one of the plentiful awaiting Yeah Yeah Yeahs to end their hiatus and deliver new material. We are definitely among this crowd. As we patiently wait, there’s a young band helping us to reminder the NYC group’s brilliance. Glass Spells conjures up a tantalizing elixir of disco-punk music. Their single, “Rebellion”, is maddenly brilliant, as wave after wave of synths floods the track with dizzying effect while frontwoman Suz Gonzalez’s Joan Jett-esque vocals gives the song its gritty edge. For such a young band, they’ve packed a wallop in this track.

Glass Spells are Suz Gonzalez (vocals), Anthony Ramirez (bass/synths), Michael Rascon (synths), and Mallory Garcia (drums). - The Revue

Finding new music on a weekly basis can be daunting but that is why we are here! We threw together a selection of ten up and coming acts to be on the lookout for from across the US that you can now find on DeliRadio (Play above). In this fresh batch we discovered some modern reggae from Texas and Indie Folk from Florida. Fans of anyone from The Knife to Father John Misty to Darwin Deez will also be able to find someone new but familiar. This whole group has put out some new music, many of them for the first time, in the past year as well as have at least a few shows on the books. Check the full list below and tweet us your favorite.

The Little Books (Jacksonville, FL)
The Outer Vibe (Grand Rapids, MI)
Glass Spells (San Diego, CA)
Ben Cosgrove (Boston, MA)
SWF (Brooklyn, NY)
Goodnight Brother (Marlboro, NY)
Snuff Redux (Seattle, WA)
Cas Haley (Paris, TX)
Silverbird (Brooklyn, NY)
Kelli Frances Corrado (Seattle, WA) - Deli Radio

Glass Spells' dance-punk mesmerizes Robin Roth, who stopped by the Air Conditioned Lounge to talk with founding member Anthony Ramirez before the group returns on March 27 to play the next free SoundDiego LIVE after party!

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Un amigo que conocí en el All My Friends me recomendó a Glass Spells, fue grato dar con ellos en este cartel. Además que su sonido se presta para el descontrol y el desenfreno, justo lo que buscamos en este pequeño playlist. - Muchaonda TV

“Everything Else” is a slice of shape-beguiling pop possessed by the spirits of punk, dance, and disco. Southern California done proud. Try and keep from dancing at first listen.
- Birinder - Don't need no Melody

I Feel It by Glass Spells crackles and pops electronic punk and hybrid disco sounds into something that feels like a dream from the future. It begs to be heard LIVE and LOUD so you feel the electronic pulses in your gut. Check out the Video by Alonso Bell - American Pancake

Early-aughts NYC dance-punk has been vehemently resurrected by Glass Spells –a coed duo from the border town of Calexico who even manage to integrate the subgenre’s infamous cowbell. The band’s debut EP, Desperate Love, will be released on July 17th and is a heavy hitting collection of piercing synths, thick bass lines, and relentless beats ideal for a late night rager in a sweaty underlit basement. Here’s the EP’s opening track “Everything Else”: - Free Bike Valet

"Su estilo mantiene entre dance-punk y electronico.Bajo bateria samplers y voz es todo lo que necesitan para hacerte bailar" - Munter Magazine