How about some rock with your salsa? In the case of Descarrilao (which translates to ‘off the rails’), the rock isn’t a side dish: it’s the main staple. After all, the band refer to themselves as “los delincuentes... Read Article
Oakland, California’s Bang Data, led by Deuce Eclipse on vocals and producer/instrumentalist Juan Manuel Caipo, have a new lyric video for a song that is a cosmic mix of reggae and rock. “Galáctica,” the lead single for their forthcoming album,... Read Article
Progressive Brazilian group Inky are releasing a collection of remixes from their first full length album, Primal Swag. Filled with synthesizers and electronic sensibility, the rock and roll sound from their music is getting new versions from local... Read Article
There are many things one can associate with Colombian music and the city of Brussels is one of them. We can credit this in a large part to a band called La Chiva Gantiva. The band was formed... Read Article
Even though this is the age of remixing, repurposing, rescuing lost sounds and re-contextualizing old popular ones, it’s still quite hard for musicians to create a coherent intersection between the elements of each genre or style without sounding... Read Article
Camilo Vega has been around for a while, but somehow we had missed him. The sociologist turned singer/songwriter had been touring around Perú as part of his day job. Yet, as he tells us in his autobiography, he... Read Article
“México, México, México… Ra Ra Ra.” It has been a busy past few months for the country of México. A recent gold medal in Olympic soccer has lifted many spirits and overshadowed a disappointing presidential election and bump... Read Article
Why would a New York City-based “futurerock” band, made up of five non-Latinos, embark on a tour of the Southwestern United States to proclaim, “We Are All Illegal?” I asked myself the very same question.
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
Video for “Dia de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead) by Argentine indie-rockers El Mató a un Policía Motorizado. I saw these guys play at Primavera Sound this year and they were awesome. Definitely worth keeping an eye... Read Article
