48 Roses, single by Mariachi el Bronx. It’s mariachi, it’s pop, it’s punk, it’s funny, and it’s an earworm. After a 10-year hiatus, the LA mariachi trailblazers released a new album,...
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...
Last week I recommended Estani’s single, “My Luck Has Changed” (Mi Suerte Ha Cambiado), from her recent album Tú De Mí Te Acordarás (You Will Remember Me). I am usually very picky...
This past weekend, the oldest and largest English-speaking theater in Mexico, the Lakeside Little Theatre, about an hour outside of Guadalajara, hosted a weekend mariachi extravaganza with the award-winning Mariachi Real Axixic,...
I recently ran across a YouTube video of Meghan Trainor’s 2014 release of “All About That Bass”, which was not about bass music, but about body positivity and full-figured women. But it...
I returned last week from a three-week music tour of Spain, mostly Flamenco, but some jazz and kora music. We visited flamenco clubs, festivals, schools, parties, and we saw a lot, mostly...
I am staying north of the border this week, with one of the musical forms that is inherently Sin Fronteras – the blues. A blend of African rhythms, holler work songs, jazz,...
