For more than a decade now, Montevideo-based outfit Sante Les Amis have been working their way up into becoming one of Uruguay’s most colourful and exciting acts. Back in 2012, the band released their debut album Sudamericana: a... Read Article
Barrio for barrio, Buenos Aires is the best city in Latin America. Nowhere else will you find the ghosts of early twentieth century high European culture sit alongside radical student squats or any of the gems that sit... Read Article
After Uruguayan rock group Santé les Amis released their bombastic debut LP Sudamericana late 2012, a lot of us were left wondering where they were going next. While the answer is not an entirely new slew of music,... Read Article
New mixtape celebrating some of the exciting new sounds coming out of South America. Features Chile’s electro-innovators El Sueño De La Casa Propia, Argentina’s quality indie-popsters Valentin y los Volcanes, great new voices from Brazil in the shape... Read Article
Our end-of-year coverage starts here with the first half of our favourite albums of 2010. Unlike the normal lists of Best Latin American albums of the year (which are mainly a selection of songs from Cuba and Mexico,... Read Article
We have been loving Onda Vaga‘s Fuerte y Caliente album ever since it was released a couple of years ago. You can imagine our delight then when we found out that Vincent Moon had recorded the band as... Read Article
Uruguay has one of the richest musical histories of the South American countries. The tango and milonga were in fact partly developed, as were the early musical expeditions of Carlos Gardel, who was born in Tacuarembó in the... Read Article
Now this is what I call an idea, the meeting of Uruguayan indie-folksters, now living in BA, Onda Vaga, with the sheer blue icy grandness of Perito Moreno, one of the most almighty glaciers you may ever see... Read Article
