REVIEW Pescado Rabioso – Artaud (1973)
A couple of albums in, and it can be easy for a band to find themselves painted into a corner. Some opt to double down on the style that had brought them success. Whilst others, in an effort... Read Article
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REVIEW Charly Garcia – Clics Modernos
Over a career spanning more than five decades, Charly Garcia has gone from the folky, kumbaya leanings of his early work with Sui Generis, through the Progish-pall of Serú Girán, to the more uptempo, pop rock that would... Read Article
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Playlist
We don’t know if “la musica salvarà el mundo” (the music will save the world) as they attested on one of their recent songs (and with the title of their 2015 world tour. But we’re pretty sure that... Read Article
Alan Courtis’ Experimental Rock in Argentina Playlist
There can be few better candidates for choosing a playlist of experimental Argentine rock classics than Alan Courtis. As a member of Reynols and now as a solo artist he has garnered a reputation as one of Argentina’s... Read Article
Remembering Gustavo Cerati 1959-2014
Gustavo who? That was my reaction when someone told me that Cerati had suffered a stroke and was in a coma. It was May 2010, and I’d moved to Chile two months earlier. The news that the Soda... Read Article
City Sounds: Buenos Aires
Like every other big city in the world, there is a musicality that oozes from the streets of Buenos Aires. The incessant humming of old, rusty buses trying to make their way through cobbled roads, explosive symphonies of... Read Article
REVIEW Go-Neko! — Los Malos de Verdad
Go-Neko! set out their stall on 2008’s Una Especie de Mutante; surging guitar riffs, pounded drums and tight, extended instrumentals were clearly the signs of a band owing some debt to kraut rock and heaviest post-rock bands out... Read Article
Andrés Calamaro – Beyond Prolific
Prolific is usually the key word that pops up in any intent of describing Argentine singer-songwriter Andrés Calamaro. He must have hundreds more songs released than anybody else in Latin rock. Granted they’re not all pieces of genius... Read Article