A new video by Combo Chimbita, a quartet whose explosive brand of “tropical futurism” has been lighting up venues in the New York City area for the past year, is a psychedelic visual story of their debut album, Abya Yala.... Read Article
The votes have been collected and now we’re ready to divulge our favourite Latin American albums of the year. As usual, it’s an eclectic mix, with pop, electronic, afrobeat, rock, folk, tropical bass, punk, hip-ho, cumbia and avant-garde artists... Read Article
Every year in early July, you can get in touch with music from all over the world in Rudolstadt, Germany. It’s then that the 1240-year-old Thuringian town of 24,000 inhabitants invites approximately 1,000 musicians from around forty countries, and hosts up to... Read Article
MAKU Soundsystem, an eight-piece immigrant band based in New York, mix Colombian beats with American funk, jazz and hip hop. With roots in Barranquilla, Bogota, the Bronx and Savannah, GA, MAKU’s new album brings a powerful and honest sound... Read Article
M.A.K.U. Soundsystem are back with their most visceral record to date. The group, whose members hail from Colombia as well as New York, where they are based, have been working on Mezcla for the past year and a... Read Article
If October is an indication of what’s in store for the global bass, tropical, Alt-Latino, and AfroColombian scenes in New York City leading up into the winter, then the Big Apple is going to be cooking. This Saturday (Oct.... Read Article
In just a few short days it will be “Noche de Tambo” in Barranquilla, Colombia — the unofficial kickoff to the big Carnival weekend in the port city. This night of nonstop cumbia, which takes place on Friday,... Read Article
The good folks behind New York City’s M.A.K.U. Soundsystem like to describe themselves as providers of immigrant beats. That comes straight across in their new video for “Jugo,” off their album M.N.D. Music Never Dies. The song is... Read Article
They say that the family that plays together, stays together. All right, maybe no one ever really said that. But the family-like crew that makes up M.A.K.U. Soundsystem makes the saying seem gospel to me. The Queens, N.Y.-based collective,... Read Article
Masters of Colombian folkloric cumbia, Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, played Le Poisson Rouge on July 26 and it was a thing of beauty. Lead singer Juan “Chuchita” Fernández may be in his 80s, but he shows no signs... Read Article
