JUST ANNOUNCED: streaming site for viewing – https://thecubanmovie.com/showtimes In 2006 McGill University neuroscientist/musician/producer Daniel J. Levitin published [...]
A high school mariachi band based in the Chicago Public School system that has been nominated for a Latin Grammy? Who knew there was mariachi in Chicago, much less in [...]
The ambient music project shows a remarkable gift for stunning soundscapes. The brainchild of Venezuelan born Luis Novo, LOON’s ambient compositions are [...]
Gina Chavez’s new EP La Que Manda is pure, shimmering power in all of its forms. Not a surprise for an album whose English title is The One Who Commands. [...]
Nancy Sanchez is imparable – unstoppable, because she nunca parable – never stops. This persistence, celebrated in “Imparable” on her latest album La Gran [...]
The Roxy is one of Hollywood’s top hotspot clubs and one of my favorite Hollywood Boulevard venues. The club’s semi-circular stage is large, but not too high — [...]
I love house concerts. But two weeks ago I had to leave a house concert in Ajijic during a tropical rainstorm with no umbrella, so my enthusiasm was…dampened. After [...]
I love cross-language/culture/border/genre collaborations – it is at the edge of genres that great creativity happens. A perfect example came across my desk this week [...]
San Francisco 1969 landed in Mexico 2019 last week. The time travel was accomplished not by a whirling machine or a gull-winged DeLorean, but by the music of two experimental [...]
The C3 Rooftop is a small-to-medium sized venue on the roof of a huge -1100 capacity – venue called the C3. It’s located on one of Guadalajara’s busiest [...]
Calle Poniente is what I would normally call a frontage road – a small road that runs alongside a highway. It is a leafy cobblestone street lined with high walls [...]
In their decades-long history of producing some of the best mariachi music in the world, Mariachi Los Camperos has outdone themselves with the new album, De Ayer Para Siempre [...]
I never found out if La Mezcaleria bar served what its name implies. It is a music venue in Ajijic at near the end of Moralos street near the shore [...]