On Our Radar: Plu Con Pla, Acido Pantera feat Tribu Baharu, Novalima, Superfonicos & Strings N Skins
The business of alerting you to music we’re really digging continues: COLOMBIA: Plu Con Pla ‘No Más Velorio’ Tumaco, Colombia’s... Read Article
On Our Radar: Sángo Groove, Atropolis, Danny Ocean & Andrea Cruz
Lots of new music on our radar, so let’s just dig right in. COLOMBIA: Sángo Groove’s Mezcla Cali Colombia’s Sángo Groove... Read Article
New Music: ‘Patrona’ by L.A./Colombia’s Lao Ra
What to do when your ‘Colombianness’ isn’t coming through in your music? In the case of Lao Ra, you work,... Read Article
New Music: ‘Sepalina’ by NYC/Colombia’s STEFA*
“Music to listen to while everything is burning down,” is how indigenous-Colombian artist STEFA* describes her debut EP, Sepalina. “To... Read Article
Listen Now: Abelardo Carbonó feat Quantic, ‘La Piña Madura’
Revered as the ‘Godfather of Champeta’, Abelardo Carbonó, is the latest in a growing line of Colombian artists to team... Read Article
An Ode to the Marimba: Colombian Pacific Mourns the Loss of ‘Marimbero’ Ángel Marino Beltrán
The Pacific and wider music community throughout Colombia has been in mourning this week, following the tragic murder of marimba... Read Article
New Music: La Sonora Mazuren ‘Ceferino En Salsa’
Earlier in the year, we presented to you La Sonora Mazuren, a crazed new magical carpet of sound emerging from... Read Article
Balancing The Light and Dark: Aterciopelados Discuss New Album and Roles as Latin American Spokespeople
There’s been a ten-year gap between Rio, Aterciopelados’ most political studio album, and their latest release Claroscura. The world has has changed... Read Article
Radical Twists and Selva Sounds: An Interview with Mitú
Mitú is a Colombian project born several years ago in the brilliant mind of multi-instrumentalist Julian Salazar. Although the concept... Read Article
REVIEW X500
Following the touching and action-packed La Playa D.C. (2012), former Colombian National University student, Juan Andres Arango, returns to present... Read Article
REVIEW Palenque Records AfroColombia Remix Vol 2
Palenque, a name that has always gone hand in hand with Afro-Colombia. “The only one with its own language, is... Read Article
New Music: Presenting Medellín’s ‘Hello Yak’
Colombia. That well-known meeting point of rockabilly and country, where surf and swing music play out to a big band... Read Article