Governor Alfaro of the Mexican State of Jalisco pushed the “Red Button” Wednesday and there will be less music. The Red Button, or botón rojo, actually has nothing to do [...]
It was so good to get back to Casa Domenech tonight for live music. We had stayed away for a while because Casa D was an all inside restaurant venue [...]
Experimental jazz is an acquired taste, one that I made no attempt to acquire until this past year when I moved to Mexico and met the guitar player Juan Juan [...]
The Roxy is one of Hollywood’s top hotspot clubs and one of my favorite Hollywood Boulevard venues. The club’s semi-circular stage is large, but not too high — [...]
Music Sin Fronteras is on vacation until Dec.6 when we will start our broadcast again. We are now in San Diego, after driving 1500 miles through Mexico from Chapala in [...]
I love house concerts. But two weeks ago I had to leave a house concert in Ajijic during a tropical rainstorm with no umbrella, so my enthusiasm was…dampened. After [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote here that I had been tapped to judge the first, and apparently not the last, Karaoke Gong Show for Charity in Ajijic Mexico. [...]
San Francisco 1969 landed in Mexico 2019 last week. The time travel was accomplished not by a whirling machine or a gull-winged DeLorean, but by the music of two experimental [...]
The C3 Rooftop is a small-to-medium sized venue on the roof of a huge -1100 capacity – venue called the C3. It’s located on one of Guadalajara’s busiest [...]
I never watched the Gong Show. For those of you who may not have been watching TV in the late 70”s, the The Gong Show was an amateur talent contest broadcast [...]
If you drive east on the Carretera highway from downtown Ajijic towards Walmart, turn left at the pastel concrete sculpture know to locals as “The Shipwreck” and follow [...]
When Juan Castañón, the electric guitar player for the D/zazter band, said I could ride into Guadalajara for the band’s gig at the Chango Vudú Club, I jumped at it. [...]
In their decades-long history of producing some of the best mariachi music in the world, Mariachi Los Camperos has outdone themselves with the new album, De Ayer Para Siempre [...]
It was a dark and stormy night – really! It was thundering and flashing lightning and raining buckets when I pulled up in front of the venue to unload my [...]
It’s low season in the Guadalajara region of Mexico. The snowbirds don’t arrive from Canada until winter, the temperatures are mild so the denizens of Guadalajara – [...]
“Oidos”, a collaboration between LA-based jazz singer and mariachi artist Nancy Sanchez and Mexico-based pop singer Madame Recamier is what I call a triple threat [...]