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HOT HALF DOZEN 5.26.26. New bilingual and other releases
Music for Memorial Day, bilingual music for today, and some Irish blues rock
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May 26, 2026
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Music for Memorial Day, bilingual music for today, and some Irish blues rock
A cumbia party at a local hotel reminded me of the amazing trip cumbia took from coastal villages in Colombia to a global dance sound.
Latin jazz, romantic pop ballads, a nod to dope-smoking, and a bunch of bilingual hits.
Check out the lineups for the three World Cup openings. And the halftime show in New Jersey
Billie Eilish and Rosalia, Selena Gomez Benny Blanco and the Marias, Arthur Hanlon, Carlos Vives & Goyo…and more for you this week. Bi-iingual music (mostly)
New release by Mariachi Divas de Cindy, “Risk It All” Shea is a change of pace and perfect for a romantic night.
Today let’s look at artists who mix languages, often in the same track or even the same verse and move easily across borders.
Los Angeles, CA – April 2026 Today’s artists are forced to juggle multiple platforms just to function. One for distribution,
Mariachi punk? Yes, and it is damn good. Mariachi El Bronx (from LA, not NYC) pulls it off very well. Lots of fun and laughs
American bands that are popular in Mexico. Often in Spanish, but not always. Plus Latin American bands that sing in English
You don’t know Wavemakers? If you are a musician, a woman, or neither of the above or just a music fan of any age, you should.
100ngreat songs and albums this wee. It was hard to chose. But The Texas Tornados to the top, along with some cross borde rcorridos and Latin pop.
There are artists who perform… and then there are those rare, almost otherworldly figures who seem to channel something far
Mexican live music is being blocked from the USA by the government in an attempt to “cleanse” American music of Latin influence. Who loses? You do, and the bands and promoters and festivals.
There are writers who document culture—and then there are writers like Howard Bloom, who try to decode it. Long before algorithms
Lots of cross-border Tejano and cumbia this week, led by Karol G. headlining Coachella – a first.
AI is is crossing a border that it shouldn’t – learning from artists and then competing with them
Mexican contemporary music is undergoing a seismic change and Mariangela is pushing hard
From the Pacific Northwest, welcome Milk N’ Fox and their debut album The Last Song, released in 2025. A fun combination
Heavy metal, ranchero rock, a ballad of bad love you can dance to, And more!
