Best Albums of 2018
Time for our round-up of the best albums of the year and, as ever, the criteria remains the same. These are the albums by Latin American and Latin American-descendant artists that we think are the best of the... Read Article
Latin Music
Get Ready For Brooklyn’s New Latin Wave Festival 2018 With Pana Li’s All-Female Latin Playlist
Its that time of year again, when Brooklyn prepares itself to receive a severe education in Latin culture with a swathe of lectures and discussions on the horizon. New Latin Wave will take place on September 30th, marking the... Read Article
S&C New Latin Music Playlist #2
The spring and start of summer are a fruitful time for new music releases, which may explain why we’ve been inundated with new music. As usual, the quality has been high and the choices as eclectic as always.... Read Article
Cumbia, Border Towns and Good Medicine: An Interview with Calexico
More than twenty years ago, Joey Burns and John Convertino decided to call their new musical project Calexico. Named after a frontier town in the US, it sums up the cultural and traditional mezcla (mixture) between Mexican and... Read Article
Frontera Festival: Chile’s Largest Music Festival To Bring Latin American Music To London
One of the most important Latin music events of South America, Frontera Festival, is coming to London for the first time on the 28th of May. Chile’s largest music festival will illuminate the city with a variety of... Read Article
Frente Bolivarista Releases 2nd Compilation of New Electronic Music from Latin America
It doesn’t seem that long ago that we told you about Frente Bolivarista, a new record label and compilation promoting some of the most forward-thinking and inventive electronic music producers in Latin America. Well, the label is back... Read Article
Chicano Batman Speaks! Opening for Jack White in America
Driving from LA to Columbus Ohio and back, in two weeks, is not an easy task (especially when sharing three cubic feet of air space with four adult males!) However, when you have the opportunity to satisfy your... Read Article
Best of 2014 Playlist
Following hot on the heels of our Best Albums of 2014 we present to you a playlist featuring some of our favourite tracks of the year. Many of these also feature in our Best Albums list but there... Read Article
The Year of the Quinceañera: the Latin Alternative Music Conference’s Sweet 15 And What To See, Do and Dance
Yes, it’s that time of the year again, when fans of good Latino sound, artists, and avid summer concert goers co-mingle with us lowly music journalists in our ill-fated decision to forgo sleep and throw logic out the... Read Article
Free Download: 12 New South American Albums
With close to a third of the year already gone we thought it was about time we brought to attention some of the great new sounds we’ve been listening to this year and which are available for everyone’s... Read Article
Best Albums Of 2013
There is little doubt that it has been a great year for South American music. The proof of that can be found in how hard it was for us to select just 20 albums as representing the cream... Read Article
Mambo Libre! An Interview with Wara
The Latin-London nine-piece band Wara have been making waves in the London gig and club scene over the past year, releasing their debut album Leave to Remain in July and embarking on their first UK tour earlier this... Read Article