Hot Half Dozen 3.1.23
241 song submitted to Music Sin Fronteras from the US, Columbia, Mexico,England Ireland. It was tough but here are my favs [...]
Latino music
“Patria y Vida”: the reggaeton revolution in Cuba? We shall see.
The Reggaetonr ap "Patria y Vida" kicks off a movement to change the Cuban government [...]
Chasing the wild Mexican song and not keeping up.
My fast education in Mexican regional music and where it is going in the USA [...]
Covers, music parties, and Kim Kuzma’s Canadian -Mexican connection.
Mexico loves American rock, but they add a habanero twist, just like Kim Kuzman did in this concert [...]
Hope for live music in 2021 and Natalie Gelman waves goodbye to 2020
2021. hope and two grat music videos [...]
Music, the Red Button and a virtual Day of the Dead
Governor Alfaro of the Mexican State of Jalisco pushed the “Red Button” Wednesday and there will be less music. The Red Button, or botón rojo, actually has nothing to do [...]
Update: the International Mariachi Festival streaming on Facebook and YouTube.
In the May 27.2020 edition of LA LA Land, I told you about the virtual mariachi festival being planned for Guadalajara. At the time, no details had been published so [...]
Live music is back, all you need is dinner al fresco
A friend of mine lamented to me online recently that everything is shut down tight in the music capital of the world, LA . She said that all indoor businesses were closed [...]
Chicago mariachi and hope for music’s future.
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 [...]
“La Que Manda” by Gina Chavez: an EP and a singer whose time has come
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’ “La Gran Civilización”: a musical tour de forcé unstoppable in any language.
Nancy Sanchez is imparable – unstoppable, because she nunca parable – never stops. This persistence, celebrated in “Imparable” on her latest album La Gran [...]
Dedicated fans fill Hollywood’s Roxy Club for Caloncho
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 — [...]
A Mexican house concert: a stunning new artist, great experimental jazz, and no rain.
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 [...]
Dynamite cross-culture collaboration: Mestiza and Matt LeGrand in “I’ve Been Watching You”
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 [...]
Report on the Gong Show in Mexico.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote here that I had been tapped to judge the first, and apparently not the last, Karaoke Gong Show for Charity in Ajijic Mexico. [...]
Back to the future in Mexico as a post-rock concert evokes the Summer of Love
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 [...]
Angels in Guadalajara? Getting lost after the Dream Rock Festival
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 [...]
“Búsqueda” by Yanin Saavedra: a stunning debut album that shimmers with promise.
Yanin Saavedras' much anticipated album is out and it is stunning. [...]
A rollicking party on a quiet street for Yanin Saavedra’s debut album “Busqueda”
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 [...]
With “De Ayer Para Siempre” Mariachi Los Camperos continues the heartbeat of Mexico.
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 [...]