Old school salsa with a twist? Cuban son with synth knob-twitching backing and feedback? Boleros with white noise ambience and atonal atmosphere? Descargas with Miles Davis’ electric-era horns and freaky tremolo guitar playing? All this and more is... Read Article
New York’s psychedelic salseros La Mecánica Popular released their self-titled debut album this week. It’s fair to say we’ve been waiting for this once for quite some time – well since we first heard some fuzzed up hip-shaking... Read Article
La Mecánica Popular, quite simply our favorite (and the only?) psychedelic salseros from New York City, have dropped a new video for their single, “La Paz del Freak.”
It’s that time of the year again in New York, where fans of the very fluid Alt Latin music scene can find a show just about every night in the Big Apple thanks to the Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC).
Chilean singer-songwriter Manuel García has announced a European summer tour which will see him take his fluffy-hair and acoustic guitar to the stage in Sweden, France, Belgium and Spain, with more gigs expected to be announced. Unlike his... Read Article
I have an absolute love for salsa from the 70s because my dad constantly played it in the house as I was growing up. While the majority of the artists he played hailed from his beloved Colombia, he... Read Article
