Bachata

By Gina Vergel 05 October, 2017

Joan Soriano, a “roots bachatero” known as the ‘Duke of Bachata’ plays a free performance at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein... Read Article

By Gina Vergel 28 January, 2016

What does it take to get to Carnegie Hall? As the old joke goes, “Practice, practice, practice.” For roots bachatero... Read Article

By Phoebe Smolin 04 December, 2015

Festival Nrmal started on a battleground. In 2010, when drug violence in Monterrey, Mexico was heightening, it wasn’t exactly a... Read Article

By Gina Vergel 26 October, 2015

In many cases, our first images of women and their beauty regimens are our own mothers. New York City -based... Read Article

By Gina Vergel 07 November, 2013

Que Bajo?, the not-so-underground New York tropical party headed up by Uproot Andy and Geko Jones, is celebrating five years... Read Article

By Gina Vergel 25 October, 2013

Systema Solar is one of those Colombian bands that I love because it’s obvious their picó–inspired sounds can power any... Read Article

By Gina Vergel 08 May, 2013

What’s better than a mixtape that celebrates different sounds coming from a variety of countries? Not much, as far as... Read Article

By Zach Bezold 28 February, 2013

The first time I came across the word “Candelaria” was in reference to the hilly, antique barrio of Bogotá, a... Read Article