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Make Way for La Yegros: The New Queen of Nu-Cumbia
Words and Interview by Isabela Raygoza
In recent years, a new brand of electronic cumbia birthed and shook up the global music scene. Brewed in the cosmopolitan...
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ZZK’s El Remolón and Lido Pimienta Team Up For Boxing Movie Soundtrack
Could this be the first all nu-cumbia film soundtrack?
Producer El Remolón, a fixture of the experimental Buenos Aires cumbia collective ZZK, has just released his...
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Let Natalia Clavier Bathe You in Her Luminous Downtempo
Name: Natalia Clavier
Where She's From: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Genre: downtempo electronica
For Fans Of: Zero 7, Julieta Venegas
Sounds Like: Let's Bring...
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Gustavo Santaolalla Talks Bajofondo, And Why Most Electro-Tango Sucks
The Argentinean-Uruguayan collective turns 10, releases a 3rd album, and dares the competition to catch up
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Artist of the Week: VOTE for Your Favorite!
Okay let's do this straight, no chaser. The weekend is here! Which means that you have seven days to choose who this week’s new Artist of the Week will be before the...
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Francois Peglau: A Peruvian Waylaid In Great Britain
Name: Francois Peglau
Where He's From: London, UK (via Lima, Peru)
When He Started: 2008
Genre: Rock 'n' roll music
For Fans Of: Devandra Banhart, Helado...
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PREMIERE: Diego Garcia, “Roses And Wine” (Morning Rain Remix)
Diego Garcia, the photogenic Argentine-American solo artist, is the kind of guy that will make you look bad in front of your girlfriend. Not only is he impossibly...
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Never Mind SXSW, Don’t Miss These 6 Bands at Festival Nrmal
South by Southwest is cool and all, but Festival Nrmal is crazyvilleawesomesauce. Every band in the world is going to be in Austin next week for the big music industry...
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PREMIERE: Bajofondo — “Pide Piso”
Uruguay-Argentina crew Bajofondo is back after a six-year hiatus with their new album Presente, and this time, they're taking the electro-tango sound that made them...
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Frik-Out!
Name: Frikstailers (that’s Freak-stylers to you Anglo folk out there)
Where They’re From: Córdoba, Argentina
Genre: Electro-cumbia, global bass
Most Similar:...
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ZZK’s El G on Starting an Electro Cumbia Party and Keeping it Going
Over the last six years, ZZK has grown from being an underground digital cumbia dance party in Buenos Aires to being a world famous dance party that's also a record...
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New Album is Brewing from Electro-Tango Masters Bajofondo
Uruguay-Argentine 8-piece Bajofondo has kept the world waiting six years for their next innovative fusion stint, but armed with a new label and what they promise will be...
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New From ZZK: Chancha Via Circuito’s Semillas EP
One of the most sincerely esteemed artists on the ZZK label roster, Argentina's Chancha Via Circuito filters folkloric rhythms through modern production and...
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Uruguay’s Campo: Self-Made and Grammy-Nominated
If you haven't heard Montevideo's Campo yet, you will very, very soon.
The Grammy-nominated crew from Uruguay includes an Academy Award winning composer, a superstar...
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Kumbia Queers Punk the Party Bus in New Video
Everyone's favorite Argentinian queercore cumbieros Kumbia Queers make party buses awesome in the new video for "Kumbia Punk" off this year's Pecados Tropicales. Climb...
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Alika & Nueva Alianza: Irie in Argentina
Name: Alika & Nueva Alianza
Where They’re From: Buenos Aires, Argentina
When They Started: 1999
Genre: Reggae Villera
Most Similar: Fidel Nadal, La Mala...
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Alika & Nueva Alianza — “Jengibre”
Alika & Nueva Alianza provide an added dose of heat to hip hop with “Jengibre.” We dig Alika’s steady stream of Spanish words, the catchy chorus and Friday...
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Artist Of The Week: Vote For Your Favorite!
It’s finally the weekend and time to choose MTV Iggy’s Artist of the Week!
This is a round-up of the best global bands we found this week. You have a week, until next...
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Calle 13′s Pan-Latin Experiment
Just as the midsummer twilight began to fade into night, the flags shot up into the air.
It was one of the closing concerts of the annual Latin Alternative Music...
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There Is No Antidote For Argentina’s Veneno
Name: Veneno
Where He's From: Argentina
Genre: Dance
Most Similar: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Justice
When He Started: 2012
Sounds Like: Buenos...