Huey Morgan’s three-part documentary series for the BBC, available to watch in the UK here, is a must-watch for anyone interested in Latin American music, the history that it embodies and the changes it has undergone through time.... Read Article
Andrea Melina Cruz Tirado is a singer-songwriter from Puerto Rico. In recent years she has expressed her day-to day life and musical experiences through deep nostalgic vocal melodies and soothing guitars. She has a clearly developed musical style... Read Article
Hurray for the Riff Raff is a project so strongly centred around the voice, vision, and personality of one person—Alynda Lee Segarra—that it is difficult to decide whether to use a plural pronoun, ‘they’, as you might use... Read Article
Recently I wandered into an old record shop. It’s musty smell and compacted layout rolled out into the tiny confines of a room no bigger than a small outdoor camping hut; its contents were laid out upon old... Read Article
Meet Puerto Rico’s Lizbeth Roman. The 28-year-old indie jazz songstress recently played New York City for the first time as a solo artist and left us very impressed. We spoke with Roman, who toured New York City with her supporting... Read Article
We’re really excited about what Vampisoul have got in store. After showcasing classic bomba and plena recordings in their ¡SAOCO! compilations and one-offs like their collection of Cortijo‘s recordings, the label have switched their ears to the current scene... Read Article
For over twenty years Sónar Barcelona festival has been the yearly European home of the best that electronic music has to offer. After bringing the festival to several Latin American capitals last November and December, the Barcelona edition is back and the care taken by... Read Article
Puerto Rican garage band Davila 666 have been around for a while (their eponymous debut album was released in 2008, while 2011’s Tan Bajo brought them further attention and scored a respectable 7.7 in Pitchfork), but they’ve largely... Read Article
Nothing shatters preconceived notions of what it means to be a musician in Latin America faster than seeing artists from four different countries create a cultural exchange unlike any other on stage. In the neatly packaged world of... Read Article
