Dedicated fans fill Hollywood’s Roxy Club for Caloncho
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 — [...]
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On the highway through Mexico: rogue tollbooths, smiling soldiers, and kisses.
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 [...]
A Mexican house concert: a stunning new artist, great experimental jazz, and no rain.
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 zombie invasion of Mexico.
The Day of the Dead – Dia de Los Muertos – is a huge 3-day holiday weekend in Mexico, as anyone who has seen the Disney film Coco knows. The weekend is marked [...]
The concert got rained out but we took a great tequila tour.
We got rained out of a private Day of the Dead concert that was going to be the subject of this week’s LA LA Land, so I am writing a review of a tequila tour we took [...]
Report on the Gong Show in Mexico.
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. The show went on [...]
Back to the future in Mexico as a post-rock concert evokes the Summer of Love
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 [...]
Angels in Guadalajara? Getting lost after the Dream Rock Festival
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 [...]
Fear (but no loathing) at the Gong Show
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 [...]
(Echoes of) Pink Floyd is alive in Mexico.
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 [...]
A Guadalajara adventure in experimental jazz
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. I [...]
With “De Ayer Para Siempre” Mariachi Los Camperos continues the heartbeat of Mexico.
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 [...]
Where the music starts in Mexico.
I went to three gigs this week in Ajijic, Mexico: a rock band at El Barco, a jazz combo at Casa Domenech, and the street at night. I saw where the music starts. First, Casa [...]
A one-handed trumpeter rocks a Mexican furniture factory on a stormy night.
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 gear. The [...]
Its low season in Guadalajara’s mountain towns but not for traditional music
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” byNancy Sanchez and Madame Recamier: a heavenly match that propels your feet
“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 [...]