The Juan MacLean

The Juan MacLean — The Future Will Come

The Juan MacLean are often overlooked in the DFA oeuvre and are overshadowed by higher profile acts like The Rapture and LCD Soundsystem. But where those two are rock bands appealing to a dance music crowd, MacLean have always been the dance act that wins over the indie kids. The duo continue this trend on their sophomore record, a booty-shaking...
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The Juan Maclean — Less Than Human

Before John Maclean became The Juan Maclean, he played guitar for electro-indie upstarts Six Finger Satellite. His debut solo disc leans heavily on the electro side of that combination without sacrificing too much in the way of quality songwriting. Less Than Human has its share of robotic keyboard noises and ambient techno beats, but dreamy vocals...
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The Juan Maclean — Less Than Human

The Juan MacLean — "Feel So Good"

The guy in The Juan MacLean's video for "Feel So Good" likes dancing everywhere: on the street, amongst pylons popping out of the ground and in doorways. Whatever, Phil Villeneuve still puts him to shame.
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!!! Drummer Dies After Falling Down Elevator Shaft

Jerry Fuchs, a drummer who played with bands like !!!, The Juan MacLean and Maserati, died Sunday (Nov. 8) after falling down an elevator shaft. Fuchs and a friend had been invited to a posh benefit party in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighbourhood, according to the New York Post. They were in the building's elevator and were trying to get to the...
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The Juan MacLean — "Happy House"

"Happy House" is more disco than house, but regardless, it still belongs in a packed club. The seizure-causing video for the track from The Juan MacLean's The Future Will Come finds singer Nancy Whang getting her groove on in a while robe with similarly-attired dancers while neon lights flash all around her. Pretty soon it looks like...
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The Juan MacLean Leave The Musician's Underground Railroad Behind

The Juan Maclean are on tour across North America in a big van. John MacLean, the band's mastermind, had a few minutes to chat with CHARTattack about his futuristic influences, blurring the lines between fiction and reality, his Canadian roots and slightly illegal trips across our border. CHARTattack: A lot of the press photos and album art...
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Juan MacLean Get Help From Above

How do you divide a person in two? Expensive surgical tools? Experimental mind-wave therapy? A really good agent? It is possible, just ask John MacLean of The Juan MacLean. He's two separate men and it's thanks to this skill that the world gets to enjoy Juan MacLean, super-cool DJ, and The Juan MacLean, future-electro-DFA band of action....
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Pumping: The Juan MacLean — The Future Will Come

I'm about to commit indie rock sacrilege: This is way better than anything LCD Soundsystem have released or ever will release. There.
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