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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...

Name: Raul y Mexia
Where They're From: San Jose, CA
When They Started: 2010
Genre: Latin Pop
For Fans of: Toy Selectah, Los Rakas, 3BallMTY
Brothers Raul...
Cosmopolatinos Americanos, open up your calendars, because DJ Guaguis aka Ali Gua Gua from queercore cumbiero band the Kumbia Queers, is coming for a whirlwind US city...
"La Cosita" is the new sultry dance single from Tijuana's ruidoson producer Santos. Stemming from another "La Cosita"—the quebradita song from 1990s pop stars Raul...
Words by Isabela Raygoza
There’s a crazy eclectic music scene bubbling out of South America’s northwest corner. New artists are rising above its Pacific and Caribbean...
The weekend is finally here and it's about that time to choose MTV Iggy's Artist of the Week once again!
This is a round-up of the best bands we featured this week...

Name: Numasbala
Where They're From: New York City, via Guatemala and Colombia
When They Started?: 2010
Genre: "Sacudón"
For Fans Of: Cultura Profética,...
Don't act like you don't know it's Friday! Yes, it's the start of your weekend! And here at MTV Iggy we're giving you another reason to look forward to it. You get the...

Name: Sonido Gallo Negro
Where They're From: Mexico City, Mexico
When They Started: 2010
Genre: Vintage Psychedelic Cumbia
Most Similar: Chicha Libre, Frente...

Words and interview by Isabela Raygoza
Let it be known, Royal Highness are heirs to the Texan electro cumbia sound. King Louie (Luis Espada), a 29-year-old veteran...
Welcome to the weekend! It's that time again to choose who will be our “Artist of the Week.”
Here's a round-up of the best global bands we came across this week. But...

Name: Dengue Dengue Dengue
Where They're From: Lima, Peru
When They Started: 2010
Genre: Space Cumbia
For Fans Of: ZZK, 3BallMTY
Sounds Like: What the...

Mexico is a tremendously exciting place to be young and making music these days. You just kind of feel it bubbling on the streets these days - this energy of things...
Another year, another Vive Latino. Mexico's baddest music festival just wrapped up this weekend. An estimated 200,000 people came out to see some 130 bands from all over...

The people have spoken, and they have good taste - Colombia's Meridan Brothers - an experimental tropical band from Colombia - is our artist of the week.
As is...

Name: Meridian Brothers
Where They’re From: Bogotá, Colombia
When They Started: 1998
Genre: Pyscho-Tropical
Most Similar: ZZK, Bomba Estereo, La MiniTK de...

The album cover for Gaby Amarantos’ major-label debut, Treme, tells much of the story for her. She’s standing in front of a giant sound system covered in jungle foliage,...

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:...

Name: Gato Preto, Gata Misteriosa and Lee Bass
Where They’re From: Mozambique/Ghana/Portugal/Germany
When They Started: 2011
Sounds Like: Tropical bass smoothie...

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...