Las Robertas

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Las Robertas - V for you

Interview with Las Robertas (They're Engaged)

San Jose and ghosts are two of Las Robertas influences, and the two seem to go hand in hand. The way that the Costa Rican quartet sing about daily life it’s easy to envision a crowd of shades weaving through the palm trunks of La Sabana, or a specter waiting for the 2:15 to Jaco at Coca Cola Bus Station (which is more like a giant lean-to than a station), and there are too many passing faces on the Avenida Central to notice if one or two of them happen to be walking dead. Las Robertas’ music is as haunting and casual as a daytime muse on death. Their music is drowned in reverb and distortion, which can sometimes sound like a storm on the other side of the wall, and their lyrics invoke the plaintive style of the Dum Dum Girls and Best Coast. If they can manage to get a hold of some visas, these girls are going to be huge, which is why I’m going to marry all of them, or at least Mercedes, who was nice enough to answer some questions.MORE

Las Robertas - In Between Buses

LAS ROBERTAS STREAMS "CRY OUT LOUD" IN IT'S ENTIRETY & DROPS "IN BETWEEN BUSES" REMIX

Formed only a year ago, Costa Rican all-girl garage rock band Las Robertas has all the essential traits of a girl gang from the movies. The band's epically named members Lola Miche (vocals),Monserrat Vargas (bass/vocals), Mercedes Oller (guitar/vocals) and Ana M. Valenciano (skins) make fuzzy, buzzy, straight-up rock and roll with a perfect mix of teenage sunshine and gritty, fearless attitude. Running the streets of San Jose in their car "Juancho" with their band-hound Perrito Caliente (Hot Dog, obviously), a black daschund who also frequently appears in band photos and videos, the four coltish teenagers simultaneously inhabit the youthful, innocent romance of their girl-group style harmonies and the feisty, off the cuff rebellion of their fast burning, guitar-driven sound. Just make sure to get out of the way if Mercedes is behind the wheel, as she, according to the rest of the group, "drives more like a Costa Rican cab driver" than a demure young lady, but nobody said anything about being demure.
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