Tag: Chicago

Music Sin Fronteras: Freddy Trujillo releases album #5, and we are happy it’s for the birds

Freddy Trujillo’s fifth solo album, Ave. Trujillo - about birds, or so it seems - is, I think, his most imaginative and certainly most ambitious work to date.  He takes birds and...

Q&A: ReverbNation Competition Winner RawBeets – Common Sense and Decency

For those people that haven't heard of you could you tell us a bit about yourself, your story?  I was born a poor, black child…. (kidding) I spent most of my younger years...

Music Sin Fronteras: the power of cover bands

I like cover bands. Since I live in a town with a lot of retirees, I have seen that bands here can make a good living playing moldy oldies while they work...

Hot Half Dozen: Mariachi Herencia de Mexico, Valarie Ponzio, Carlyn, Buddy Guy, Nikki Lane, Björk

Herederos by Mariachi Herencia de Mexico. Mariachi like you have never Heard it before.  A Chicago-based mariachi of 14 women and men led by 19-yer old Marco Villela, its music is a...

LA/LA Land: One hundred and nineteen songs and 56,830 artists livestreaming near you

One hundred and nineteen songs.  That is how many submissions I received last week from artists, bands, agents, and management and PR groups pitching music for me to review.   Actually, that is...

Xoe Wise. electronic folk with a strong message. We play the new album.

Xoe Wise is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer originally from a small town in NC. Her music ranges from folk to rock, to electronic and her forthcoming album, Air, features her folk songs...

Mariachi Herencia. A high school band from Chicago with a Latin Grammy nom

Mariachi Herencia De México is a constantly rotating ensemble of students from Chicago’s immigrant barrios, with a hit song and 2017 Latin Grammy nomination. The band started in 2016 as a student...

LA/LA Land: Chicago mariachi and hope for music’s future.

A high school mariachi band based in the Chicago Public School system that has been nominated for a Latin Grammy?  Who knew there was mariachi in Chicago, much less in the high...
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