My newspaper is teaming up with a Guadalajara radio station to produce a jazz festival in one of Mexico’s 177 “Magic Villages,” Ajijic. The town has already hosted two jazz fests this...
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...
I am toggling between the World Cup and news about the on-again, off-again USMCA trade (US-Mexico-Canada) trade negotiations. One thing that strikes me is that the flow of music between the three...
If your playlists lean even slightly Latin these days – as most do in the US - you’re probably already hearing Huasteca music – you just don’t know it. Those high, quivering...
It is not surprising that there is a strong Mexican presence at SXSW this year (March 12–18), given the proximity of the border to Austin, and centuries of cultural exchange between Mexico...
I am back from the holidays, which were spent, among other things, listening to new music, which is starting to emerge for the new year. In my earphones were songs like SLOW ...
(Los Angeles) Lysa Flores was a pioneer in LA’s East Los alternative scene. Raised in East LA with an older brother with a guitar, she played a box as a child, then...
Cesar Castro founded the Son Jorocho band Cambalache in 2009 in East LA with Xochi Flores, Chuy Sandoval and Juan Perez. Long before, as a child Castro began studying Son Jarocho, the musical...
