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Artist of the Week: Brazil’s Folk Pop Chanteuse, Tulipa
In an epic landslide, Brazilian fusion soprano Tulipa Ruiz slaughtered the competition in our Artist of the Week poll.
Mixing Brazilian pop, bossa nova, and samba...
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Tulipa Sings A New Brazilian Song
Tulipa's songs, though they're simple, sound like favorites you've known forever the first time you hear them.
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Daniel Peixoto Tira A Roupa
Daniel Peixoto é maquiado, veste Spandex, e é o posterboy de fusão electropop. Apesar de não ser mais o frontman da sua ex-banda Montage, sua carreira solo em nada lhe...
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Daniel Peixoto Takes It All Off
Daniel is Brazil’s fishnet/spandex underwear/make-up/blonde tressel-donning gyrating posterboy of electropop fusion, and though he’s no longer the frontman of his former...
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Artist of the Week: Brazil’s Beady-Eyed Diva, Daniel Peixoto
He's the Portuguese Hedwig. Cachaça country's Diamond Rings. The dudely Lovefoxxx. And now, due to your vigorous voting, he's our Artist of the Week. Congratulations,...
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Daniel Peixoto Chews n Swallows Beats
We love to love tecnobrega, the cheesy, intellectual property-thieving mashup beats out of Brazil's northeast. So does Daniel Peixoto, the former androgynous frontman...
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Ana Tijoux — “1977″
Seventies-born MC Ana Tijoux isn’t the kind of lady who lies about her age –- the Grammy-nominated Chilean rapera is too cool for that. “1977," a golden age track with...
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Las Kellies’s Shimmy, Shake, and Sass
Post-punk can mean a lot of things these days. Most of the time, when someone tells you a current band plays post-punk it’s a nice way of saying they sound like some...
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La Vida Boheme — “Radio Capital”
La Vida Bohéme fight for their right to party in “Radio Capital.” The Venezuelan rockers reclaim the streets of politically-torn Caracas with this dance punk track from...
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Self-Titled by Las Kellies
Summer playlist sounding limp and malnourished? Ditch The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and grab Las Kellies' self-titled third album. This latest vitamin-packed release...
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Venezuela’s La Vida Boheme: “The Kids are Taking Over”
La Vida Boheme is a dance punk quartet out of Caracas, where a dearth of colorful, young bands has basically launched them into revolutionary status.
In fact, their...
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Artist of the Week: Caracas Rockers, La Vida Bohème!
You voted heartily, and Venezuela's La Vida Bohème is our Artist of the Week!
It appears that "La Resistance" -- the nickname for La Vida's fanbase -- came through...
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Mexico City’s Vive Latino Festival: 9 Reasons Why You HAD To Be There
We went to Mexico City's Vive Latino 2011 to catch the hottest new Latin American music -- and we have lots to share. Read about our favorite acts below, and be sure to...
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Bands We Like: La Vida Bohème’s Caracas Rock
La Vida Bohème are nothing short of inspirational giants in their home city Caracas. Their fanbase even has a name: "la resistance" -- which has many insinuations under...
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Ana Tijoux, More Kick off the Latin Alternative Music Conference 2010
The LAMC kicked off at NYC's Central Park Summerstage with Ana Tijoux, El Guincho and Nortec Collective. Fans packed the space as the bands rocked in the heat.
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Bands We Like: Peru’s Indie-Folk Fave Kanaku & El Tigre
Peruvian cuties, yes! One is a bespectacled hipster, the other looks like a telenovela ingenue. But when they come together, they make beautiful music as Kanaku & El...
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Nuestra by La Vida Boheme
La Vida Boheme's US debut LP Nuestra (or "our") begins with "Radio Capital", a fun, candy dance punk track with chant-singing and traces of Mexico's Vicente Gayo and El...
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Bands We Like: Chile’s Eclectic Pop Darling Dadalú
Chilean indie music darling Dadalú makes everything she touches seem cooler. Cheesy electro-funk synth lines? Smooth jazz solos? Slightly creepy animal hats? She turns...
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Pacheko — Kosmicare
Pacheko just dropped a gem on the bass loving populace with Kosmicare, a bass/outer space/reggaeton/kuduro/Venezuelan changa tuki dance EP that blends surprisingly into...
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Bob Your Head To Chrizz Luvly’s Brazilian Bangers
Chrizz Luvly kind of looks like a D-bag. I couldn't tell you if he is or isn't. But what I can tell you is that he makes club bangers that would make other D-bags' heads...