Your guide to the best Latin events coming up in Bogotá.
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Festival Cordillera has quickly become one of the most vital gatherings for Latin American music. Not just a festival, but a panorama of the region’s past, present, and future. Each edition draws legends, cult heroes, and emerging voices... Read Article
When it comes to ringing in the New Year, the soundtrack in Colombia often evokes nostalgia, with iconic Venezuela-bound orchestras like the Billo’s Caracas Boys and Los Melódicos setting the tone for countless celebrations across the country. Their... Read Article
We recently had the honor of interviewing Damper Vergara, one half of breakout Afro-Colombian duo, Dawer x Damper. Nominated for their first Latin GRAMMY, to take place tomorrow in Sevilla, Spain, and renowned for their groundbreaking music that... Read Article
Two years ago, a significant addition to Bogotá’s thriving artistic spectrum emerged from the heart of the La Macarena neighbourhood – “Sesiones Macarena 360”. These inaugural live-recorded sessions brought together well known figures from Colombia’s music scene, including... Read Article
Lee Eye is a fast-rising Bogotá-based artist who started releasing music around the year 2017. With a mix of pop and rap influences, she draws inspiration from artists such as Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, and Macklemore. In an... Read Article
BIME opened its doors to over 2,000 professionals who gathered at the Ean University from 3rd to 5th May. The event was inaugurated by various officials and the festival included over 50 concerts spread across five stages in... Read Article
Tilda Swinton stars in ‘Memoria’, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s meditative exploration of memory and the human condition set in Colombia.
The tenth edition of Bogotá’s Festival Estéreo Picnic will kick off on April 5th, and it comes with a stacked lineup featuring some of our favorite up-and-coming Latin American acts, as well as a few of the country’s... Read Article
After almost five years hidden in the shadows, Pedro Ojeda and Eblis Álvarez‘s bizarre hybrid of tropical grindcore and black metal, Chupame El Dedo, are finally back with their second album. Even though the last few years have... Read Article
Bogotá’s Festival Estéreo Picnic has become one of the top players on the festival circuit when it comes to putting together the planet’s biggest acts along with the most on-trend local artists, and not to mention a good... Read Article
“We’re going to do it”. That’s the message of the new video from Pernett and Quantic. “Vamos A Hacer” is a digital cumbia in classic Pernett fashion, shot through with the spirit of carnival (not to mention Pernett’s sublime... Read Article
Ask anyone who knows a thing or two about making music in Colombia and Eric Banta is a name you can trust. Best known for his work in the studio, as well as being celebrated for his craft... Read Article
Bogotá’s Sello In-Correcto recently released the third edition of its El Sudaca Contraataca compilation, a series of albums which bring together some of the freshest and most select projects in South America’s underground scene. On this latest release, the compilation... Read Article
There’s been a ten-year gap between Rio, Aterciopelados’ most political studio album, and their latest release Claroscura. The world has has changed a lot in that time. The Colombian government has signed a peace treaty with the FARC, the music... Read Article
The strings reach blackboard scraping extremes. The sax fills the cavernous vacuums left for it to jaunt. Percussion ranges from little more than a tick-tock to the sound of the whole world crashing down. Whilst it can be... Read Article
“I continue because well, it’s what I do. I could be totally ‘out of business’, without even a peso. That doesn’t matter to me. If I have money, if I don’t, it’s only me. If I die financially,... Read Article
It’s been a crazy couple of years in the Colombian music scene, and it shows no sign of letting up as we kick off 2018. There’s been a multitude of exciting new sounds, projects and albums and of... Read Article
Tucked away in the residential streets of Bogotá’s Teusaquillo district, there’s something of a musical revolution taking place. I’m at the home of Mambo Negro, a label working with the artists that are pioneering a large section of... Read Article
Bogotá, Colombia, an untamed and often less predictable beast of a city. At times, emitting a looming ambience of darker more powerful forces at work. This is one of those times and the all-enchanting forces are of the... Read Article
Percussionist Pedro Ojeda has been involved with many groups that form part of the current alternative music scene in Colombia; Frente Cumbiero, Meridian Brothers, Sidestepper, Chúpame el Dedo, to name a few. Now he leads Romperayo, a project... Read Article
The musical magic of Afro-Colombia has once again graced our ears. This instalment comes from Galletas Calientes Records and a group of DJs and producers who span the Global Bass scene. On Palenque Records AfroColombia Remix they deliver... Read Article
In a shady billiards joint in La Candelaria, central Bogotá, Antonio Yammara, a young law professor frequently spends his evening. There, the professor – who wrote his dissertation on how Hamlet’s insanity exempts him from responsibility – often... Read Article
I caught up with Santiago from Monsieur Perine in the middle of their United States tour in Santa Cruz, California. The Colombian band’s music is reaching out beyond their Latin American roots to the ‘gringo’ audience with great... Read Article
Discrepant Records have continued their work releasing experimental music with a wide geographical focus thanks to the recent and upcoming releases of two notable Colombian projects, Chupame El Dedo‘s debut album on vinyl, and the forthcoming reissue of... Read Article
