Sometimes I just like to just go to a bar or club blasting loud rock through a crowd of people hanging around outside, talking and smoking dope. It doesn’t matter who is...
One of our local treasures here on the north shore of Mexico’s largest lake is La Cocherra Cultural, an art, music and education center created out of an old car repair garage. ...
While everyone was focused on the last-minute dropout of Kanye West and the quick substitution of The Weekend and Swedish House Mafia at Coachella, something was happening below the top lines of...
When I arrived in Mexico three years ago, there was a vacant lot at the corner of Calle Aldama and the highway that serves as the town’s main street. Along an informal...
I waited a day to write Music Sin Fronteras this week so I could write about the Grammys. The Grammys are not a big thing in Mexico, although this year they generated...
The first rock and roll record ever recorded in Mexico was “La Cama de Piedra” by Pablo Beltran Ruiz in 1956. It featured a full orchestra and a men’s chorus belting out...
Strange music weekend last week. I had anticipated the town would be rocking because it is a three-day holiday in Mexico – Monday is the birthday of Benito Juaréz, Mexico’s 26th President...
It has been quite a couple of weeks musically. First, the musical “A Funny Thing Happened…” wrapped up with two Broadway performances by Laura Medina, singing “Think of Me” from The Phantom...
