HOT HALF DOZEN 12.13.22
The stunning photo of Francisca Valenzuela in the Movistar Area in Santiago tells it all. Latin music - and Latinas - had a great year. Read about some of them here. [...]
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Hot Half Dozen 11/29/22
Light week, only 160 submissions, but some real gems, including the 95-year old Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist. [...]
Mexico rocks Coachella with music sin fronteras
For the first regional Mexican bands played at Coachella - along with a lot of Latin bands. Golden Voce is follow
ing the trend in American music---Latin [...]
Frying tamales and the Grammys
The day after Thanksgiving and my family is all in the kitchen in in laws in San Diego making fried corn and strawberry tamales and a Mexican omelet* with caso [...]
LA LA Land South of the Border: cervesa, tequila and music at FIMPRO in Guadalajara.
FIMPRO is making Guadalajara the music capital of Mexico. It rocked! [...]
Day 2 at FIMPRO
Day 2 was the packed day at FIMPRO so far this year, with virtual meetings, multiple live presentations, two music showcases and a schedule that ran a little late. [...]
FIMPRO KICKS OFF WITH A BANG.
Day 1 report from FIMPRO Lain Music conference [...]
Hot Half Dozen 9/14/21
112 submissions this week. Here are my top six n all genres and English and Spanish [...]
John Stewart: The Fall Guy Rises With His Music
John Stewart is not only on his way to becoming the next Latino pop superstar along with his non-Latin bandmate Madeleine Kaye from Juliana, but is already an acknowledged [...]
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 [...]
Resiste by Eljuri: an amazing album in a career full of amazing music.
Patrick O’Heffernan I have been sitting with Eljuri’s new album Resiste for a couple of weeks, listening to it over and over. There is so much here – so many [...]
SISSTER wows LA at the release party for her debut self-titled EP; San Diego is next, then the world.
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, SISSTER wowed a n LA audience when she released her self-titled EP last week and demonstrated why she is so popular and so [...]