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
Puerto Rico’s iLe, a GRAMMY winner in 2017 for her solo debut ‘iLevitable,’ has a new single, “Temes,” a somber portrait of the moments after an attack of machismo. iLe (real name Ileana Mercedes Cabra Joglar) will perform... Read Article
Fresh off the heels of a wonderful AfrolatinoFest in NYC, it’s once again time for the Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC), and many alumni of the conference are in the Big Apple to perform. Now in its 18th year, LAMC... Read Article
René Pérez Joglar, better known as Residente, released his debut solo album Residente in March 2017. Joglar is well-known in the Latin music scene, the Puerto Rican rapper’s group Calle 13 having released four hit records since their... Read Article
René Pérez Joglar, known in the music world as Residente from Calle 13, has launched quite the NSFW (seriously, be careful where you watch it) music video to make you think of the origin of mankind and conflict.... Read Article
Monsieur Periné have just released a new music video for “Nuestra Canción”, one of the highlights from their last album Caja de Música, and which features the talents of Dominican star Vicente Garcia. Directed by Christian Schmid Rincon, the... Read Article
I first heard the Colombian band Monsieur Periné almost four years ago when I saw this video of them playing ‘La Muerte’ on Amplificado.tv. I was simultaneously confused and enamoured – was this really a Colombian band playing... Read Article
For his last album, Bailar en la Cueva, the Uruguayan singer/songwriter Jorge Drexler took the bold step of relocating to Bogotá and working with Mario Galeano, the mastermind behind Ondatrópica and Frente Cumbiero, and a new group of... Read Article
Music, Politics, and Nationalism in Latin America looks at how culture, specifically folk music – música típica (typical music), neofolclore (new folklore) and nueva canción – was appropriated for the purposes of politics, propaganda, patriotism and national identity.... Read Article
Buenos Aires was pulsating with music festivals this November, and porteños’ (as Buenos Aires natives are called) wallets are still recovering. Large international music festivals have been making their way across Latin America in the last few years,... Read Article
It dawned on me recently that I’ll never know what it’s like to make a stadium full of people dance. Thankfully, a new video by our friends, El Freaky Colectivo, is akin to front-row *and* on-stage access while they make the stadium #turnup, as the kids... Read Article
Two years ago, Calle 13 – probably the most well-known socially conscious Latin artists today – caused New York City’s Prospect Park to close its gates to the beyond-capacity crowd that lined up to see their free performance... Read Article
