A psychedelic dembow, an upbeat song about being fiery red in a white world, a duo from Cali who are making their AFROPUNK debut, a song honoring the women’s rights, another celebrating women of color, and a Tiny... Read Article
For years Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux has forged a reputation as a fierce hip hop MC with a burning desire to change the world. Now she is expressing herself in new ways. Tijoux’s outspoken feminism and anti-capitalism have... Read Article
Following on from his Top 10 Tunes of 2017, Cal Jader has now sent us over part of his Best of 2017 mixtape. Featuring tracks from across Latin America as well as bands formed by Latin American migrants... Read Article
Tropical doyen Cal Jader (the main man at Movimientos) returns to the S&C site for another year with his selection of 10 Latin American tunes that have been keeping his DJ sets, radio shows and headphones alive over... Read Article
Guatemala is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman; there are 56,000 reported acts of violence against women per year. It holds the highest rate of femicides, mostly due to domestic violence,... Read Article
Mainstream hip-hop can sometimes appear to be dominated by tales of cars, jewellery and the high life, but there is a long tradition of activism in the genre. In Latin America, a new wave of rappers are taking... Read Article
“¡Ay, qué manera de caer hacia arriba y de ser sempiterna, esta mujer!” (“Oh, the way this woman has of falling upwards and being eternal!”) These are the opening lines to Pablo Neruda’s poem “Una Elegia para Cantar” (An... Read Article
