On an extremely sunny Sunday afternoon Alex Anwandter – fresh from his performance at one of San Juan, Puerto Rico’s alternative concert venues – sat down with Sounds and Colours in a quaint café in Santurce. As with... Read Article
Situated between Colombia and Peru, Ecuador have formed their own sounds away from the cumbia of Colombia and the African and Criollo roots of Peru, with some influence from the traditional music of the Andes but mainly taking... Read Article
The gorgeous “Hold On” from Buenos Aires-based band Les Mentettes. Their sound sits somewhere between the jauntiness of Andrew Bird, the earnest, preaching of early-Bright Eyes or Hefner and the melancholy of Black Heart Procession. This video features... Read Article
I just came across the Sonido Ambiente website, a site dedicated to recording videos of some fine Argentine indie bands performing their songs out and about. There’s quite a few songs I could have featured here but I... Read Article
Video for “Dia de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead) by Argentine indie-rockers El Mató a un Policía Motorizado. I saw these guys play at Primavera Sound this year and they were awesome. Definitely worth keeping an eye... Read Article
Valentin y Los Volcanes are fast becoming one of our favourite bands with their irresistible mix of Vaselines indie-pop with the guitar fuzz of Jesus and Mary Chain or My Bloody Valentine. Here is “Piedras al Lago” of... Read Article
In this, our first entry in the ‘Going Underground’ column we look at five Argentine artists that have not been getting as much exposure, either locally or globally, that we think they deserve. Federico Falcón / Páramo Some... Read Article
