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Re-Appropriating Pre-Hispanic Sounds with Mexico’s DJ Javier Estrada
Words, interview, and translation by Isabela Raygoza
Evolving to one of the most prolific Mexican producers of today, DJ Javier Estrada righteously holds the torch of...
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Juan Cirerol Is the Voice of Mexico’s Next Generation
Name: Juan Cirerol
Where He's From: Mexicali, Mexico
When He Started: 2010
Genre: Anarkocorrido
For Fans Of: Johnny Cash, Los Inquietos del Norte, Los...
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Con Estilo, Talento, Y Un Nuevo Disco Niña Dioz Es Indestructible
Por Isabela Raygoza
Quien puede resistir una joven rapera MC? Nosotros no. Y Niña Dioz de México nunca se nos ha escapado de nuestro radar. Después de realizar una...
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With Swagger, Skill, and a New Album Niña Dioz is Indestructible
Words and interview by Isabela Raygoza
Who can resist a boyish, Spanish-rapping lady MC? Not us. And Mexico’s Niña Dioz has never not been on our radar. After making...
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Los Master Plus and Their Intense Cumbia Swag
Can you handle this, ladies? We met up with El Comanche and Larry Mon ( AKA Alfredo and Alonso) of Guadalajara cumbiatrónica duo Los Master Plus for a visual master...
interview
Los Master Plus: Los Nuevos Reyes de la Cumbiatrónica
Por Isabela Raygoza
Con sus presentaciones graciosas del amante Latino, canciones de covers cumbieras contagiosas, y fusiones originales de cumbiatrónica con norteña,...
interview
Meet Mexico’s Los Master Plus: The New Kings of Cumbiatrónica
Words and Interview by Isabela Raygoza
With their suave Latin-lover antics, contagiously catchy covers, and original amalgamations of cumbiatrónica with norteña, you...
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Celebrating Resistance: 5 Songs for May Day/Cinco de Mayo
Words by Isabela Raygoza
May is a month to celebrate. Besides the fact that we’re well into spring in the Northern Hemisphere and 'tis the season to be procreating,...
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Scene Report: Mexican Metal Sticks It to the Man
There was a grand total of five seconds from when Garrobos starting playing until a cupful of beer came crashing down on my head. A few seconds after that, I caught an...
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DJ Guaguis Is Going to Unleash Some Kumbia Karnage on the US
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...
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Uproot Andy and Geko Jones Debut Que Bajo Records with “Worldwide Ting” Mixtape
Que Bajo?! is not just the number one tropical music party in New York City, it's a heavy contender for best tropical music party in the world. Resident DJs Uproot Andy...
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An Unusual and Ghastly Evening with Mexico’s Selma Oxor
Words by Isabela Raygoza
If you ever meet her, you won’t forget a night with Selma Oxor. Cynical, deliciously dark and vampish are a few of the keywords that have...
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Sonido Gallo Negro: Taking the Cumbia Revival To The Bandstand
Name: Sonido Gallo Negro
Where They're From: Mexico City, Mexico
When They Started: 2010
Genre: Vintage Psychedelic Cumbia
Most Similar: Chicha Libre, Frente...
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Chile’s Gepe Unites Andean Folk and Indie Pop
Gepe’s concert at the Vive Latino festival in Mexico last weekend felt like the future.
Gepe (real name Daniel Riveros) mounted the stage with tousled hair and skinny...
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5 Mexican Metalheads Who Want To Crush Stinking Hipsters
Mexicans love their metal. Trends come and go, but Mexico stays true, sticking out its collective tongue and flailing its long hair at a Pantera concert while ripping an...
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Centavrvs Leads a Revolution in Mexico
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...
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6 Bands That Kicked Ass At Vive Latino
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...
interview
Bosnian Rainbows: A Beautiful, Purposeful Accident Post-Mars Volta
Bosnian Rainbows is a strange and mysterious creature, even as genre-bending indie bands go. Two fifths ex-Mars Volta members, it's nevertheless a new band, but formed...
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Artist of the Week: VOTE for Your Favorite!
It's Friday. Let's do this.
Who's going to wear the crown as this week’s new Artist of the Week before the poll closes next week? You tell us.
One of the five...
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I Can Chase Dragons Is a Dream Pop Fantasy Come True
I Can Chase Dragons Makes The Spanish-Language Dream Pop You've Been, Um, Dreaming About