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
Echo Resonance is a small record label based in Brooklyn, New York. So far they’ve released four vinyls. Best of all is the fact that two of these are by acts from Argentina; Valentin y Los Volcanes and... Read Article
On 21st December, the Argentinian indie blog Indie Hoy released a new compilation of songs from the Argentine underground (as well as the odd one from Uruguay and Mexico). Celebrating the arrival of summer, with 21st December being... Read Article
I can’t believe we missed this when it first came out. Here is the video for “Piedra al Lago” off Valentin y los Volcanes‘ last album Play al Viejo Walkman, one of our favourite albums of 2010, just... Read Article
Following on from the first part of our Best South American Albums of 2010 are numbers 10-1, meaning our favourite album will very soon be revealed! [Just scroll to the bottom if you want to find out.] It’s... Read Article
Valentin y Los Volcanes are fast becoming one of our favourite bands with their irresistible mix of Vaselines indie-pop with the guitar fuzz of Jesus and Mary Chain or My Bloody Valentine. Here is “Piedras al Lago” of... Read Article
In this, our first entry in the ‘Going Underground’ column we look at five Argentine artists that have not been getting as much exposure, either locally or globally, that we think they deserve. Federico Falcón / Páramo Some... Read Article
