RUDY DE ANDA IS A GENRE CHAMELEON, AND “HELADO” PROVES IT
Soft age. Delicate era. Sensitive period. However you mull its meaning, 'Tender Epoch,' the latest release from Mexican American artist Rudy De Anda, stands as a fitting title for an…
FOSTER THE PEOPLE SEES THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL WITH NEW EP
Jacket, JOHN GEIGER. Tank, Knorts. Jeans, archive. Bracelet, Vitaly. Shoes, HARDEMAN. It’s 9 p.m. on a Friday and I have a phone date with Mark Foster. When he answers the…
Nubya Garcia Goes Back To Her Roots For Her Debut Album ‘Source’
Nubya Garcia is the renaissance women of London’s bustling jazz scene. Born to Caribbean parents in Camden, London, she got her start in music early when she began to play…
photo / Aaron Snaiderman
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…
photo / Bonnie Nicholds
BIA IS ‘FOR CERTAIN’ ABOUT HER MUSIC, GROWTH, AND TALENT
It’s clear that Boston-bred multicultural musician BIA is all about securing her bag, dropping hits and minding the business that pays her. Since dropping quarantine-made banger “Cover Girl,”…
Q & HOLIDAYS: THE GOO GOO DOLLS
The Goo Goo Dolls have been keeping busy trying to keep the spirits high. Curating all of their favorite Christmas tunes, our favorite feel-good band brought us the most magical…
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…
ELLINGTON IS TAKING CENTER STAGE WITH HIS FIRST SINGLE “EMT”
Ellington Ratliff is no stranger to the spotlight. Having grown up in Los Angeles, his childhood was filled with acting auditions, high school bands, and exposure to the arts. From…
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…
photos / Brandon Hicks
ALYCIA PASCUAL-PEÑA IS ‘SAVED BY THE BELL’
Everybody remembers watching the 1990s sitcom classic “Saved By The Bell” starring some of our all-time favorite actors and actresses from Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Lark Voorhies, and Tiffani Amber-Thiessen. Now,…
MAL THE ODDITY CREATES A SPACE TO DAYDREAM AND REFLECT
With a sound in constant flux, Brooklyn based artist Mal The Oddity began his artistic career writing stories and poetry in high school. Burrowing away in novels, these imaginative worlds…
photo / Steve Zeitzoff
BEYOND THE STREETS: IN CONVERSATION WITH MISTER CARTOON
Los Angeles in the 1980s found itself simultaneously unraveling at the hems of social unrest and flourishing in amorphous creative prosperity. A teen at the time, Mark Machado expended…