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montevideo

Street Art in Uruguay: Interview with Colectivo Licuado

By Adam Fry 13 June, 2016

You’d be hard pushed to find someone in Montevideo who hasn’t seen Colectivo Licuado’s work. They might not have known... Read Article

REVIEW Hablan Por La Espalda – Sangre

By Andrew Lim 04 May, 2016

Sometimes local bands can be like milanesas, everyone thinks theirs is the best. But I know that this album hit... Read Article

7 Carnival Classics from Uruguay

By Adam Fry 10 February, 2016

The Uruguayan Carnival, apparently the longest in the world, is a month and a bit marathon of riotous satire, fiercely... Read Article

Lost Photographs In London: Rosângela Rennó’s Latest Exhibition Río-Montevideo

By Robyn Emily Darbyshire 08 February, 2016

Río-Montevideo is the first major UK exhibition by acclaimed Brazilian artist Rosângela Rennó. Rennó, originally from Belo Horizonte, is known... Read Article

Bold Steps to a Creative Future: An Interview with Martin Azambuja

By Adam Fry 17 December, 2015

Martin Azambuja is one of those designers whose work manages to playfully invade your day to day reality without you... Read Article

REVIEW Santi Mostaffa – Intratable

By Andrew Lim 20 May, 2015

Intratable. It’s an album title that can appeal to any self respecting hip-hop community here in Uruguay, Latin America, or... Read Article

I Wanted This Record To Be Physical: An Interview with Jorge Drexler

By Russ Slater 15 April, 2015

For his last album, Bailar en la Cueva, the Uruguayan singer/songwriter Jorge Drexler took the bold step of relocating to... Read Article

South America Meets Gnawa Via Uruguay’s Selectorchico

By Russ Slater 16 March, 2015

Uruguay’s Selectorchico has just unleashed a new bomb of a track uniting South American electronica with the sounds of gnawa... Read Article

100% Bittersweet: An Interview with Fernando Lagreca

By Amaya Garcia 08 December, 2014

When it comes to electronic music, creating atmospheres instead of plain old dance tracks is one tricky business that not... Read Article

REVIEW Carmen Sandiego – Ciudad Dormitorio

By Steven Totten 10 November, 2014

Carmen Sandiego’s latest album Ciudad Dormitorio is a testament to the fact that the Uruguayan band is born of a... Read Article

Metis (Eco Lopez & Ian Lampel) Berlin Music Week 2012 Preview

By Russ Slater 22 September, 2012

Metis are one of the few groups we’ve heard mixing hip-hop beats, jazz instrumentation and candombe drumming. Furthermore, they do... Read Article

Uruguay’s Tree People

By Russ Slater 27 April, 2012

We wanted to bring you these quite brilliant photos of Uruguay’s Tree People, a new street art project by Pablo... Read Article

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