Country Jose McDonald died yesterday, Saturday, March 7, 2026, in Berkeley, California. I saw Country Jose many times during the 60’s: at the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival, June 1967,...
Agua y Sol, single by Laura Dryer. Happy, melodic flute-led jazz with a Brazilian feel from this New York-based saxophonist, flutist, and composer whose original music fuses lyrical jazz with Brazilian rhythms...
Meklit Hadero, known simply as Meklit, is the perfect example of Music Sin Fronteras. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, her family became refugees, and she moved to the United States as a...
Back in February (seems like a lifetime ago) I reviewed Gaby Moreno’s 2024 album Dusk. In April’s Hot Half Dozen I recommended the music video for her single “Lamento”, that tells the...
Malaventurados No Lloran by La Nueva Ola de Cumbia. Los Malaventurados No Llora is just plain happy. It’s cumbia – what can I say? You dance to it. The song is a...
Era El o Era Yo, single by Vivir Quintana. "Era El o Era Yo" narrates the real-life ordeal of Roxana Ruiz, a woman sentenced to prison after killing her attacker in self-defense....
First, RIP to Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys and Sly Stone, who both died recently at the age of 82. Wilson was the leader and chief songwriter of The Beach Boys...
