Carlos Cañedo
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Carlos Cañedo is a Mexican-American (chicano
) rock musician and professional Argentine Tango
dancer and choreographer. As a musician Cañedo performed in American punk rock and hardcore bands The PeeChees
, Rice, and Beehive and the Barracudas, releasing albums on seminal indie labels Kill Rock Stars
, Lookout! Records
, and Subpop. He is currently performing in Carlos Cañedo Is Filling Gaps with Adam Horovitz
of the Beastie Boys
. As a dancer, Cañedo has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Argentina, and Europe and his choreographies have been performed on Broadway and Europe.
, Jason Crane
and Paul O'Beirne
of Rocket From The Crypt
, Jason Soares of Physics, Matt Anderson of Heroin, and Dustin Millsap of Beehive and the Barracudas. In 1991, the band released a single on the Vinyl Communications label and later an LP on Lookout! Records
. The band broke up in 1992.
In 1994, Cañedo and fellow Rice member Rop Vasquez moved to the Bay Area and started The PeeChees with Molly Neuman
of the Riot Grrrl
band Bratmobile
and her then-boyfriend Christopher Appelgren, an employee at Lookout! Records. The band released 3 Full-Length LPs on the Olympia-based Kill Rock Stars
label, and various singles on various labels including Lookout! Records (which is owned by Appelgren and Neuman) and Subpop. The band toured the United States and Europe before disbanding in 1998.
In 2005, Cañedo and Neuman reunited to play in the New York-based punk rock band Love Or Perish. The band released one album, Start From Zero, and toured the United States and Australia.
Cañedo currently plays in Carlos Cañedo Is Filling Gaps with Adam Horovitz
and NYC-cabaret singer Bridget Everett.
in Buenos Aires and San Francisco. In 2000, Cañedo moved to New York City and began performing in the show Swango
and Tangos Pour La Milonga. He has performed in North America (including acclaimed venues such as NYC's Lincoln Center, Montreal's Place des Arts
, and San Francisco's Palace Of Fine Arts
), Europe, and Argentina. His choreographies have been performed in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. In 2011, Cañedo choreographed Romulo Larrea's Tangos From Gardel To Piazzolla, which received enthusiastic reviews from the the New York Times. He is the founder and director of The Tango Company, based in New York City, where he currently resides.
Singles
Compilations
Chicano
The terms "Chicano" and "Chicana" are used in reference to U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. However, those terms have a wide range of meanings in various parts of the world. The term began to be widely used during the Chicano Movement, mainly among Mexican Americans, especially in the movement's...
) rock musician and professional Argentine Tango
Argentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...
dancer and choreographer. As a musician Cañedo performed in American punk rock and hardcore bands The PeeChees
The PeeChees
The PeeChee All-Season Sensations were a punk band formed in 1994 by Lookout! Records co-owners Christopher Appelgren , Molly Neuman , along with guitarist Carlos Cañedo , and bass player Rop Vasquez .The PeeChees...
, Rice, and Beehive and the Barracudas, releasing albums on seminal indie labels Kill Rock Stars
Kill Rock Stars
Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and based in both Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon. The label has released a variety of work in different genres, making it difficult to pigeonhole as having any one artistic mission...
, Lookout! Records
Lookout! Records
-History:Larry Livermore and David Hayes formed the label in 1987. From the start, Lookout released punk rock records, but over time expanded its scope to include various types of pop rock, reggae fusion, acoustic rock, pop punk, and indie rock...
, and Subpop. He is currently performing in Carlos Cañedo Is Filling Gaps with Adam Horovitz
Adam Horovitz
Adam Keefe Horovitz , better known as Ad-Rock or King Ad-Rock, is an American musician, guitarist, rapper, producer, and actor...
of the Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys are an American hip hop trio from New York City. The group consists of Mike D who plays the drums, MCA who plays the bass, and Ad-Rock who plays the guitar....
. As a dancer, Cañedo has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Argentina, and Europe and his choreographies have been performed on Broadway and Europe.
Musical Career
Carlos Cañedo first began performing at age 15 in the San Diego-based foodcore band Rice. The band included members of many influential San Diego punk and hardcore bands such as Rop Vasquez of The PeeCheesThe PeeChees
The PeeChee All-Season Sensations were a punk band formed in 1994 by Lookout! Records co-owners Christopher Appelgren , Molly Neuman , along with guitarist Carlos Cañedo , and bass player Rop Vasquez .The PeeChees...
, Jason Crane
Jason Crane
Jason Crane is an American drummer and trumpeter notable as a member of Rocket from the Crypt, The Black Heart Procession, and Beehive & the Barracudas.-Musical career:...
and Paul O'Beirne
Paul O'Beirne
Paul O'Beirne is an American saxophonist notable as a member of Rocket from the Crypt.-Musical career:...
of Rocket From The Crypt
Rocket from the Crypt
Rocket from the Crypt was an American rock band led by John Reis, formed in 1989 in San Diego, California and disbanded in 2005.The band gained critical praise and the attention of major record labels after the release of their 1992 album Circa: Now!, leading to a recording contract with Interscope...
, Jason Soares of Physics, Matt Anderson of Heroin, and Dustin Millsap of Beehive and the Barracudas. In 1991, the band released a single on the Vinyl Communications label and later an LP on Lookout! Records
Lookout! Records
-History:Larry Livermore and David Hayes formed the label in 1987. From the start, Lookout released punk rock records, but over time expanded its scope to include various types of pop rock, reggae fusion, acoustic rock, pop punk, and indie rock...
. The band broke up in 1992.
In 1994, Cañedo and fellow Rice member Rop Vasquez moved to the Bay Area and started The PeeChees with Molly Neuman
Molly Neuman
Molly Neuman is a musician originally from the Washington, D.C. area who has performed in such influential bands as Bratmobile, The Frumpies, and the PeeChees. She was a pioneer of the early-to-mid '90s riot grrrl movement, penning the zine which coined the phrase in...
of the Riot Grrrl
Riot grrrl
Riot grrrl was an underground feminist punk movement based in Washington, DC, Olympia, Washington, Portland, Oregon, and the greater Pacific Northwest which existed in the early to mid-1990s, and it is often associated with third-wave feminism...
band Bratmobile
Bratmobile
Bratmobile was an American punk band. Bratmobile was a first-generation "riot grrrl" band, which grew from the Pacific Northwest and Washington, DC underground...
and her then-boyfriend Christopher Appelgren, an employee at Lookout! Records. The band released 3 Full-Length LPs on the Olympia-based Kill Rock Stars
Kill Rock Stars
Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and based in both Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon. The label has released a variety of work in different genres, making it difficult to pigeonhole as having any one artistic mission...
label, and various singles on various labels including Lookout! Records (which is owned by Appelgren and Neuman) and Subpop. The band toured the United States and Europe before disbanding in 1998.
In 2005, Cañedo and Neuman reunited to play in the New York-based punk rock band Love Or Perish. The band released one album, Start From Zero, and toured the United States and Australia.
Cañedo currently plays in Carlos Cañedo Is Filling Gaps with Adam Horovitz
Adam Horovitz
Adam Keefe Horovitz , better known as Ad-Rock or King Ad-Rock, is an American musician, guitarist, rapper, producer, and actor...
and NYC-cabaret singer Bridget Everett.
Dance Career
Cañedo began dancing in the 1990's while a member of The PeeChees. He studied Argentine TangoArgentine Tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneon. Originated at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of...
in Buenos Aires and San Francisco. In 2000, Cañedo moved to New York City and began performing in the show Swango
Swango
Swango may refer to one of the following.*Juliet Swango, a founder of The Rondelles indiepop band*Michael Swango, a serial killer doctor*Swango, an album by Candye Kane*Swango, a song from the Swango album, "a mix of swing and tango"...
and Tangos Pour La Milonga. He has performed in North America (including acclaimed venues such as NYC's Lincoln Center, Montreal's Place des Arts
Place des Arts
right|frame|View of the Place des Arts esplanade. The Musée d'art contemporain is on the left; behind it is the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, with the Théâtre Maisonneuve on the rightPlace des Arts is a major performing arts centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada....
, and San Francisco's Palace Of Fine Arts
Palace of Fine Arts
The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California, is a monumental structure originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in order to exhibit works of art presented there. One of only a few surviving structures from the Exposition, it is the only one still...
), Europe, and Argentina. His choreographies have been performed in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. In 2011, Cañedo choreographed Romulo Larrea's Tangos From Gardel To Piazzolla, which received enthusiastic reviews from the the New York Times. He is the founder and director of The Tango Company, based in New York City, where he currently resides.
Discography
LP's- Rice, "Fuck You, This Is Rice" (Lookout! Records 1994)
- The PeeCheesThe PeeCheesThe PeeChee All-Season Sensations were a punk band formed in 1994 by Lookout! Records co-owners Christopher Appelgren , Molly Neuman , along with guitarist Carlos Cañedo , and bass player Rop Vasquez .The PeeChees...
, "Do The Math" (Kill Rock Stars 1996) - The PeeChees, "Games People Play" (Kill Rock Stars 1997)
- The PeeChees, "LifeLifeLife is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased , or else because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate...
" (Kill Rock Stars/Damaged Goods 1999) - Beehive and the Barracudas, "Featuring The Insects (Flapping Jet Records 1998)
- Love Or Perish, "Start From Zero" (Simple Social Graces 2006)
Singles
- Rice, "In Rice We Survive" (Vinyl Communications 1992)
- The PeeCheesThe PeeCheesThe PeeChee All-Season Sensations were a punk band formed in 1994 by Lookout! Records co-owners Christopher Appelgren , Molly Neuman , along with guitarist Carlos Cañedo , and bass player Rop Vasquez .The PeeChees...
, "Cup Of Glory" (Kill Rock StarsKill Rock StarsKill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and based in both Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon. The label has released a variety of work in different genres, making it difficult to pigeonhole as having any one artistic mission...
1994) - The PeeChees, "Scented Gum" (Lookout! RecordsLookout! Records-History:Larry Livermore and David Hayes formed the label in 1987. From the start, Lookout released punk rock records, but over time expanded its scope to include various types of pop rock, reggae fusion, acoustic rock, pop punk, and indie rock...
1995) - The PeeChees/Long Hind Legs, "Spend Some Time With" (Skinnie Girl 1995)
- The PeeChees, "Love Moods" (Rugger Bugger 1996)
- The PeeChees "Antarticists" (Roxy 1997)
- The PeeChees "Sing Like Me (Elliott Smith)/Other Ice Age" (Damaged GoodsDamaged Goods (record label)Damaged Goods is a British independent record label and online shop.- History :Damaged Goods started in 1988 from a living room in east London.Ian Damaged called it DamagedGoods. The first release was a re-issue of the 1977 single by Slaughter and the Dogs, "Where Have All the Bootboys Gone?"...
1997) - The PeeChees "Dallas/If You Don't Know (Now You Know)" (Sub PopSub PopSub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in Seattle, Washington. Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle music scene...
1998) - The PeeChees/The Drags, "Radio Disappears" (G.I. Productions Unknown)
Compilations
- Can Of Pork "Rice-The Future" (Lookout! RecordsLookout! Records-History:Larry Livermore and David Hayes formed the label in 1987. From the start, Lookout released punk rock records, but over time expanded its scope to include various types of pop rock, reggae fusion, acoustic rock, pop punk, and indie rock...
1991) - Rock Stars Kill "The PeeCheesThe PeeCheesThe PeeChee All-Season Sensations were a punk band formed in 1994 by Lookout! Records co-owners Christopher Appelgren , Molly Neuman , along with guitarist Carlos Cañedo , and bass player Rop Vasquez .The PeeChees...
-Patty Coahuila" (Kill Rock StarsKill Rock StarsKill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and based in both Olympia, Washington and Portland, Oregon. The label has released a variety of work in different genres, making it difficult to pigeonhole as having any one artistic mission...
1994) - Slice Of Lemon "The PeeChees-Maintenance Free" (Lookout! Records/Kill Rock Stars 1995)
- YoYo A Go Go "UnwoundUnwoundUnwound was a United States post-hardcore band based in Tumwater/Olympia, Washington. Formed in 1991, the band consisted of Justin Trosper , Vern Rumsey , and Brandt Sandeno , all of whom had previously been in a band called Giant Henry. Brandt Sandeno quit Unwound in 1992 and was replaced by...
-Valentine Card (uncredited)" (Yoyo 1994) - All Punk Rods "The PeeChees-You Are Not" (Lookout! Records 1998)
- Taking A Chance On Chances "The PeeChees-Second Grade (Troubleman 1998)