Black Keys, he Third Mind,, Chika Di, JNoa and more. This week we do rap/hip hop/ regional Mexican, alt pop and electronica/dream pop. Some new, some you know well.
Vivir Quintana is one of the female voices moving into Mexico’s traditionally male regional music scene—norteña, corridos, and banda. But she is more than that. She blends these regional folk traditions with poignant social commentary—a kind of regional Mexican rap in its lyrical thrust.
Powerful music this week by Mexican, DR, and American bands, Iron and Wine, Virir Quintana, Leton Pe.
I recently discovered ZORA on Spotify and decided to look deeper. What I found inspired this week’s Music Sin Fronteras. She is very music sin fronteras, although not my usual Latin/US/Canadian. Her sin fronteras is Hungary.
First column back from Spain. TRhe ne musician feature here is not flamenco, but an African Kora player. Plus traditional Mexican, hot blues rock, and Chilean and Columbian love songs.
Three weks in Spain seeing flamenco, jazz and even kora!
Nacho Cano has put together a show that is so good, so big, and so inspirational that if you don’t see it in Mexico City, I suspect you will see it in Las Vegas. The show is the rock musical Malinche.
Quite a range this week. Mexican and Puerto Rican pop and love songs, indie rock, atmospheric heartbreak, and just plain fun. Kirby, Whitney Tai, Sara Angel, Jodeline, Buscabella
BALTHVS calls itself a Colombian psychedelic funk trio, but I think they are much larger than that. Whatever they call themselves, they are damn good. They are dreamy at times, at other times they are head-banging guitar riff masters and mistresses. When you listen to them, you keep saying, “How do they do that?”
RIP to Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and Sly Stone, who both died recently at the age of 82.. We feature songs by Wilson, Eljuri, Francisca Valenzuela ,Dámaris Bojor and more.
A solo blues album from Gina Coleman. A winner combining authentic down and dirty blues and modern touches
Today I am going to do something a little different. I am recommending music that is off the beaten path, experimental, a little – or a lot – away from the mainstream. Some of it may be an acquired taste, others will resonate quickly. You decide.
LGBTQ+ artists have been contributing to our musical history since Tchaikovsky. Pride Month 2025 hs brought out playlists and performers on both sides if the Mexican-American border who celebrate gay pride and their own role in it. Hewre are some
Part of my mission at Music Sin Fronteras is to tell my readers things they may not know. I don’t mean facts and figures or even new singers and music, although I do that. But the “soul” of different kinds of music from different peoples and places. Los Cenzontles
Two debuts, Las Chorizeras, and Ignite me, single by Terra Renae. Plus New Jersey blues by Billy Walton and a Girl Ultra team up with Chromeo and Express of.
Eurovision is an internationally televised music competition organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in which each participating country selects a song and artist-either through national competitions or internal selection-to represent them on stage. And it is WILD! Take a look at Finland’s entry. “I’m Coming” on a rocket propelled microphone
Rock, blues, ballads, bun…especially fun with Blue-eyed Man by Las Chorizeras and Ja Mandei Flores by Ruido Rosa. Plus Lana de lRey’s latest
15,000 years of guitar history and here we with Samantha Fish, Villarreal Vélez and Kurt Rosenwinkel . How did that happen?
Wide ranging this week from Foreigner (in Spanish) to Guitarricadelafuente in English and Spanish, to Iluka and Maggie Szabo in English. Great rock and romance.
Iluka is riding a wave (or cantering horse) with her vocal power, her cowgirl/witch persona, and her legions of fans, now numbering just under 300,000 on Spotify. Check her out. I think she is going places , fast, at a full gallop.
