Pitchfork

Hmm, a Spanish-language Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band tribute band? Not with a song title like "All Y'all". Formerly known as A Fir-Ju Well, Atlanta's Gringo Star put their octopi in a different garden, playing psych-tinged garage-punk with echoes of like-minded locals the Black Lips, with whom they have shared bills. The first single from a forthcoming album Gringo Star are recording with Ben H. Allen III (Animal Collective, Christina Aguilera, Gnarls Barkley, P. Diddy), "All Y'all" is an exuberant rush of early Kinks guitars, tambourines, handclaps, multi-part harmonies, and bits of tinkly piano, all catchy even if they don't reinvent the wheel. Frontman Nicholas Furgiuele's shouts have a crisp, Jack White-like swagger as he warns about a man who won't ever treat you right-- you being "all y'all, all y'all," I suppose. The video by Analog Monkey (who, full disclosure, have done work for Pitchfork), shows the band performing outside at what looks like a pretty fun daytime party. Fans in mariachi-band sombreros ride around on Segways or blow smoke at the camera, while Furgiuele does his thing wearing a jacket to match. People drink, they dance, they hula-hoop, they look on creepily from the window of the next house over. The dogs look happy, too

MP3:> Gringo Star: "All Y'all"
[from an as-yet-untitled album]