Playing Ping-Pong with Spain's Most Fun Rock Band
Don’t cross Hinds. The Spanish garage-rock band knows how to hold a grudge.
The Canadian group Dears, for instance, once threatened to sue the band. The trouble arose when Hinds, which had started as Deers (not Dears), was asked by the Canadian band's lawyer to change its name to mitigate confusion. And so, grudgingly, Deers became Hinds. “We still hate them,” says the band’s singer and guitarist, Ana García Perrote. “If you read this, we hate you! We’re never gonna forget it!”
And then there’s Kate Moss, who allegedly cold-shouldered the band’s members at a music festival. Hinds hasn’t forgotten. “She wouldn’t take a picture,” says Perrote. “She said no.”
The best grudge of all, though, brought Hinds together. The Madrid-based group’s origin story could be a rom-com screenplay: In
