Electric Cowbell To Release Tribu Baharú’s Dance-Driven Champeta for Record Store Day
For many of us out there, record store day (April 22nd) is a must have in the ol’ musical diary.... Read Article
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Our top picks for SXSW 2017
The SXSW Music Festival is one of the largest and most influential global music industry events of the year, taking... Read Article
REVIEW Palenque Records AfroColombia Remix
The musical magic of Afro-Colombia has once again graced our ears. This instalment comes from Galletas Calientes Records and a... Read Article
INTERVIEW: Systema Solar’s Juan Carlos Pellegrino on Their Latest Album ‘Rumbo a Tierra’
Systema Solar hail from the Colombian coast, taking their musical roots from the non-stop music and party scene and Colombian... Read Article
Colombia’s Colectro Release New Album ‘Coletera’
Bogotá-based Colectro, known for their style of folkloric-tinged rock, which they coined coletera, have released a new album. Coletera, which dropped the 25th of... Read Article
Bogotá’s Tribu Baharu embark on second U.S. tour
Bogotá, Colombia’s “champeta champions” Tribu Baharú are on their way back to the United States to perform in the nation’s capitol... Read Article
Throes + The Shine Team Up With Colombia’s Meridian Brothers for Blissful Afro-Champeta Joy
Fresh from dropping their first video (featuring Argentina’s La Yegros) from new album Wanga the Portuguese/Angolan rock/kuduro outfit Throes + The Shine have now... Read Article
Taking Techno Into A More Spiritual Place: An Interview with Dani Boom (El Leopardo/Systema Solar)
Colombian DJ Daniel Broderick, aka Dani Boom, has been a busy member of Bogotá’s underground music scene for close to 20... Read Article
Barranquilla’s Carnival is ‘Una Sola Gozadera!’
It’s a hashtag popular among Colombians these days: #hueleacarnaval. Quite simply, it translates to, “It smells like Carnival.” Indeed, we... Read Article
Colombia’s Tribu Baharú Take Afrocaribeño Champeta to New Heights
Champeta has a champion in Tribu Baharú (pronounced ba-roo). The band, formed in Bogota in 2009, have been steadily taking... Read Article
APAP Conference & Global Fest Preview: Top Picks
The Big Apple is bursting at the seams with world musicians as artists and performing arts professionals from all 50 United States... Read Article
A New Way To Mix Sounds: An Interview with Bomba Estéreo’s Simón Mejía
After exploding internationally with “Fuego” in 2009, Bomba Estéreo have come a long way since they first came into being... Read Article