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...
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...
I am sitting at my table listening to easter church bells from the iglesia parroquial in the village and “Nepantla” from Las Cafeteras’ new album A Night in Nepantla - the “space...
A song came across my screen this week that grabbed me, "Cumbia de Mi Barrio" by Las Cafeteras, one of my favorite LA-based bands. It is a song that celebrates the singer's...
Last weekend the art and music hub La Cochera Cultural introduced me to yet another authentic regional music and dance form – Son Jarocho. the music of Veracruz.
Son Jarocho is a traditional...
Screen Violence, album by Chvrches. Two discs, 13 songs, all killers, and all about making life better now. You know Chvrches and this is the best ever from them. On all major...
If you were in San Francisco in 2001 you might have seen posters of an old log cabin inside of a rough wooden picture frame with the TransAmerica Tower behind it –...
La Sirena, single and video by Las Cafeteras. With a lot of Latin divas joining I, the unique jorocho/hip hop/rock/ reggae band releases a Spanish language tribute to the women, straight, gay,...
