MUSICAL INFLUENCES COLLIDE IN MARIKO DAISEY’S NEW SINGLE, ‘FLOR SIN RETOÑO’
Sometimes I feel I wanna hear something different. Today my wish was granted thanks to Mariko Daisey and her new single, Flor Sin Retoño. Having a passion for…
Alexis De la Rocha sees through the ‘Haze’
Remembered by many as the frontwoman of experimental band BEATMO, Alexis De La Rocha is a 1st generation Latine multi-hyphenate musical powerhouse out of L.A. who seems to be able…
All eyes on Bella Dose as they Break the Internet
"Are Girl Groups back?" Even if nobody is posing that rhetorical question at the moment, they may very well be in the very near future, because acts like 'Bella Dose'…
Fernando Milagros – A Pyroclastic talk about “Obsydiana”
Fernando Milagros is a Chilean singer-songwriter who blends indigenous Latin-American sounds with modern western music instrumentalization, world rhythms, oneiric digital sound design, and a layered theatricality transferred from…
KORDELYA AND THE ETERNAL BULLFIGHT
As Latin music made its way through the anglophone-dominated airwaves, it was only a matter of time before innovators like KORDELYA challenged even the sounds that the world has…
AKACATS, RESHAPING CHILE’S HIP HOP MUSIC LANDSCAPES
Beautiful things are born out of disruptive moments, and such is the case of AKACATS debut album Cupido. Composed in the midst of Chile’s heated socio-political environment, AKACATS new songs…
GABRIEL GARZÓN-MONTANO IS NAVIGATING A RIGID WORLD SANS DEFINITION
Olive green. The answer to the first question of the zoom interview. Surprisingly enough it was I, the interviewer, that is met with the first inquiry. "What’s your happy color?"…
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RAFA PABÖN INTRODUCES HIS BIGGEST MUSE: HIS CULTURE
For years, La Perla has mostly been known in Puerto Rico as one of the historic areas where activities like The San Sebastian Festival and monthly gallery nights can be…
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CNCO ON FIVE YEARS OF LATINXCELLENCE TOGETHER
Five has proven to be a fateful number for CNCO, the Latin boyband named after the No. 5 in Spanish. The guys are coming on five years since their…
BUSCABULLA FIND THEIR GROOVE ON ‘TA QUE TIEMBLA’
Luis Alfredo Del Valle and Raquel Berrios, better known as indie pop duo Buscabulla, have been keeping it low-key since the start of the pandemic in the midst of…
JUSTIN QUILES HAS A PULSE ON REGGAETÓN WITH NEW SINGLE “PONTE PA’ MI”
When a Justin Quiles song comes on, whether it's one that he wrote for himself or another superstar, there's a definitive emotional quality in the lyrics. When the Puerto…
PALOMA MAMI IS MAKING MOVES WITH HER NEW SINGLE “FOR YA”
Music recorded in Spanish is put in the monolith category of "Latin Music." One artist chipping away at that label and pushing the boundaries of where music in Spanish can…