Interview
Bomba Estéreo Tell Secrets About New Album… and Drug Trips
Li Saumet and Simon Mejia of Bomba Estéreo, the powerhouse of electronic cumbia, stopped by New York City during their latest tour this month. We caught up with them in...
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Bomba Estéreo Say Their New Album Is “Spiritual”
Bomba Estéreo’s first two albums are tough acts to follow. The psychedelic cumbia duo has racked up a huge fanbase, an MTV Iggy Best New Band cred, and a very high...
Interview
Bomba Estéreo’s Li Saumet Recounts Her Ayahuasca trip
Bomba Estéreo leading lady Liliana Saumet seems like one of the most level-headed MCs on the planet. But she’s had her moments, like the time she tripped her face off on...
review
Various Artists — Future Sounds of Buenos Aires
It’s a match made in electronic music heaven. He is a collective of electronic producers doing weird and wacky things with cumbia in Buenos Aires. She is a...
blog
EXCLUSIVE: MTV Iggy Gets Sneak Peak At Bomba Estéreo’s New Album Elegancia Tropical
Bomba Estéreo, our favorite purveyors of psychedelic cumbia dance party fun, are back with a new album this summer called Elegancia Tropical, and they invited MTV Iggy...
blog
Capsula’s “Hit’n'Miss” Meets the Mark
Argentinian-bred, Spanish-based trio Capsula had a big year. They drummed up major buzz at SXSW, garnering a four-star review for their sophomore album In the Land of...
Music Video
Campo — “La Marcha Tropical”
Nobody puts baby in the corner. Campo, the Grammy-nominated subtropical band from Uruguay, makes music for the oppressed teenage masses with “La Marcha Tropical.” A mix...
article
La Yegros Brings Female Touch To Argentina’s Nu-Cumbia Scene
Argentina’s ZZK crew have revolutionized the Buenos Aires scene by infecting the hipsters of the well-heeled north side of town with a taste for cumbia, but when it...
review
Ya by Banda De Turistas
Let’s face it, Buenos Aires is a nostalgic rock and roll kind of city, where mullets never died and the Rolling Stones are more of an object of religious worship than a...
list
10 International Artists to Watch at SXSW 2012
Yes, it’s that time of year again: SXSW is upon us. Even though there will be a zillion bands in attendance (that’s the official count), you are guaranteed to hear...
article
Goodbye Rio, Hello Recife: A Taste of Brazil’s Best Hidden Carnival
Forget about Rio, its massive floats and feathers, its buxom dancers dressed in tiny and strategically placed dollops of fabric, its exclusive Sambadrome and its booming...
article
Los Animales Superforros Bring Trippy Psych-Folk to Buenos Aires
Weaving together Argentinean folk music, lonely psychedelic soundscapes, fantastical children’s tales, and at least one ill-advised pun, Los Animales Superforros are...
interview
Tecnobrega Pixie Daniel Peixoto Wants Love AND Sex
The omni-sexual Brazilian electric artist Daniel Peixoto is always a raunchy delight -- whether writhing in sand or peeing on the dancefloor. So of course we wanted to...
MTV Iggy Show
The MTV Iggy Show — Episode 10
This week on the MTV Iggy Show, catch a Grammy-nominated Chilean spitting hip-hop fire, get a new look at the savviest Canadian electropop couple, and dream away the day...
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Colombian Hip Hop Gets Jiggy With It
Who would have thought? As it turns out, Colombia’s top rapper is giant, unrepentant nerd.
You won’t see Jiggy Drama rocking shiny chains and big jeans – he favors...
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In French Guiana, Roots Reggae Thrives in A Garden of Eden
Sure, roots reggae was born in Jamaica, but if you want to see where its really flourishing today, check out French Guiana, where artists Prince Koloni and Little...
blog
Pernett Drops “Cumbia Computer”
Pernett was one of the first artists ever to fuse electronics and Latin folk. The producer and self-proclaimed geek from Colombia was our Artist of the Week in October...
article
Brazilian Indie Rocker Lulina and her Lo-Fi Lullabies
São Paulo, Brazil’s mega-city of 20 million people, feels today something like you’d imagine New York in the 1970s to be: a rock and roll town where anything can...
review
La Bala by Ana Tijoux
Featuring lots of blood, bullets, and corrupt colonels, the lyrics on Ana Tijoux's new album read something like a Gabriel Garcia Márquez novel. Except the album isn't...
slideshow
Es Nuestra Fiesta Con La Vida Boheme
Red, orange, yellow, blue splatters decorate the boys of La Vida Boheme at every show, like a rainbow came to their concert and danced so hard it sweat all over them....