Several things struck me by the nominations for the 2025 Grammys: the number of women in the new talent category, the diversity of people and songs, and the Beatles.
With the release of Kim Deal’s debut solo Nobody Lives You More, she has changed, grown, and is more relevant than ever as she turns 63.
ArabLab created a magic fusion soundscape at the CCAR Auditorio
Day of the Dead in Mexico: parades Catrinas, little angels, and lots of music.
Definitely in my comfort zone – a fusion, of jazz, a bit of pop, a bit of classical, a bit of romance, and a lot of fun.
A new release due out tis week, “Tipping Point”, by the “She is Guadalajara” artist, Joshua Josué .
Music from around Mexico, zapeteado dancing, hot air balloon, audience participation – a magic night.
A power young singer with a message and the music that is becoming ubiquitous worldwide
A revolutionary, evolutionary mariachi from California, Las Chorizeras.
The rising Gen Z Cumbia Pop Star, Estevia has released “Corazón Tatuado” combines cumbia, pop and the emotions you hear from regional music in Mexico. She can make you dance to a broken heart – and keep humming the chorus for days.
Extraordinary convert in Guadalajara with Jaramar who introduced us to what I call, “Dream Jazz’
A three-day anniversary celebration of a mariachi, and an afterparty that almost wouldn’t quit.
“”Mexican-American Novio is a tour through “Nancy Sanchez’s musical range and the thriving Mexican -American society in Los Angeles, and elsewhere in the country.
Amanda Abizaid has a new song out. She is an unusual – and unusually talented – singer, musician, composer, flutist, pianist, and good human being. Her music shows it. “Music has the power to bring us all together peacefully around the World” she says.
Premiering new song b y Joshua Josué , “She is Guadalajara” -my city for music
This is an all American column- no “sin fronteras” this week, no mariachi, K-pop or J-pop or even cumbia from East LA. . Once in a while a just have to go back to the blues, that unique American music that tells stories of heartbreak, suffering, love and sometimes joy. And what better place to go is one of today’s blues queens, Kelly Zirbes, -Kelly Z and her band Kelly’s Lot .
The Drumeo Award for the Best Rock Drummer of 2023 went to a 22-year old Mexican woman, Paulina Villarreal, drummer for the Mexican rock band The Warning, .
Jenny and the Mexicats combine music from Mexico, Europe and the US in unique rocker’s and great ballads
Nose flutes and ukuleles. A vacation to Micronesia with music.
A concert cancelled, another left after the first set (the music was good, but the food…), and a concert by mariachi school kids won the day
