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
Its carnival time and the bull rings and auditorios and full of music – all male. Here are women who could fill the bill
Gaby Moreno’s new album Dusk (Delux) is a wide-ranging collection of musical diamonds
You can’t escaptye Samantha Fish, axnd you rally don’t want to. The queen of rock and blue has a new single .
A star singer withs her priorities right. Great music, great person. Maggie Szabo
Do you know Las Chorizeras? Not the sausage, the band. If not, you should, because the four women who make up this unique Mexican-American “alt mariachi” fusion band are not only fun and entertaining, but moving the boundaries of music and culture.
My top ten artists from the 5000 songs and albums and videos I received in 2024
The music industry grew an astonishing 8% this year, but as usual ,artists got left behind. So where is it going? That’s the question I ask.
