How mining, poverty and environmental destruction deepen a health crisis. The Troncal 10 is a road full of huge pot-holes and obstacles that constantly threaten to destroy cars that venture onto it. This ‘trunk road’ leads to Tumeremo,... Read Article
Mo Scarpelli’s documentary El Father Plays Himself (2020) is a compelling look at the making of a film set in Venezuela in which the director Jorge Thielen Armand has cast his non-actor father to play the lead role.... Read Article
Coming from the capital of salsa, Cali’s El Dragón Criollo keeps rhythm in his blood, though living now in Geneva. The Pacific-city expat, who splits his time between performing with his groups Contento, La Jungla and Acid Coco,... Read Article
Somewhere in the forests of eastern France, there’s a ritual taking place that might be worth avoiding. For whilst the music will hook your attention, the whistling Venezuelan mythical creature, El Siblón, is waiting in the midst to... Read Article
The current situation in Venezuela, no matter what one agrees with politically, isn’t a happy one. For the more than 200,000 Venezuelans living in Florida, however, there is some solace in a Miami theatre. Viva La Parranda!, a new... Read Article
Soul Jazz Records have announced a second volume in their Venezuela 70 series. As with the first volume, it will be a collection of some of Venezuela’s maverick musicians of the 1970s, musicians who looked deep within Latin... Read Article
Meet four-piece psych surf punkrock band, MAMIS. Formed in 2015 in Austin, Texas, the capital city best known for hosting the massive SXSW festival each year, Espíritu is the quartet’s first release. We found their bilingual lyrics, which are focused... Read Article
La Familia (The Family, 2018 / Dir: Gustavo Rondón Córdova) starts with a scene among feisty young rebels, the reality of Venezuelan youth at the edge of the slums of Caracas. There is a mix of boyish playfulness, mutual care,... Read Article
Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist MPeach‘s new single “TBT” pays homage to the nostalgia and generation-defining markers of early perreo days, harkening back to the soundtrack of growing up in her native Venezuela. In the song, “TBT” (which we’ll assume... Read Article
Here’s how our editor Russ Slater described Betsayda Machado & La Parranda el Clavo‘s Loe Loa (Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree), as one of our picks for “Best Albums” at the end of 2017: “This was a complete... Read Article
He never went to film school but Andrés Duque has established a reputation for very personal experimental films. His work, as well as his life in general, have been guided by intuition and disorder, as well as his... Read Article
Updated 21/08/17: Music video for “Porro Maracatu” below. A new single by a brand new group headed by four women will have you saying “girl power.” Lara Klaus, Daniela Serna, Mafer Bandola and Sara Lucas, who hail from Brazil,... Read Article
