Estani’s latest album is a vibrant collaboration with the Grammy-winning legends Los Texmaniacs, infusing classic Conjunto sounds with her signature modern twist. “Mi Suerte Ha Cambiado” won Best Latin Traditional at the 2025 Hollywood Independent Music Awards: a stunning recognition for a song that reimagines a 50-year-old family heirloom into something timeless and magnetic.
Bass-led bands, and the Gil Rios Quintet – bass-led experimental jazz by a master
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.
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.
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.
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?”
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
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
15,000 years of guitar history and here we with Samantha Fish, Villarreal Vélez and Kurt Rosenwinkel . How did that happen?
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.
Elston Torres’ new song “Vive” will simply make you you happy. What do you expect from a artists woth 6 top 10 Billboard hits?
Nepantla. is the space between two worls, the world of Mexican traditions and the USA “Night in Nepantla” is Lasn Cafeteras’ new album that chronicles the joy, the sadness, the confusion, the determination to exist well in the state of Nepantla.
Two great cumbia bands, both inspired by magic mushrooms and both free in the Ajijic Plaza. I love Mexico’s support for music
A night of Mexican music: Americana, latin jazz, and flamenco
A concert of indigenous, Mexican, andAmerican standards with a unusual band and a slightly mysterious singer – who is angel
A women who is blowing away the rock world is 22-year old Paulina Villarreal Vélez, the multi-instrumentalist drummer for the red hot Mexican rock band The Warning, made up of Villareal and her two equally talented sisters.
14 songs that move across gritty Chicago blues, foot-stomping Delta blues, garage rock, and vintage soul, both in original material and reimagined blues classics . Her ability to bring the classic past into the rootsy rock present while anathemizing what it means to be a woman and a mother is truly remarkable
I missed the concert, but I still have the new song. Los Anos hits home musically and lyrically for La Santa Cecelia
