Juanes has returned with his highly anticipated 12th studio album JuanesTeban. The new LP finds the Colombian superstar fusing cumbia with his signature rock sound for a 16-track collection of ...

During the 2023 second annual Funky Latina Music Festival, held in downtown Phoenix, the audience gathered in a circle in front of the stage inside the Crescent Ballroom. It resembled the circles ...

Son Rompe Pera, the Mexico City-based band known for blending marimba with cumbia and punk rock, will perform at Brooklyn Bowl in Brooklyn as part of World Music Institute's Let's Dance Series in May.

Los Bitchos are an LSD-laced sugar cube melting in your mouth. The London-based four-piece make tripped-out 70s-inspired cumbia that sounds like it belongs in the 1966 Czech film Daisies—Věra ...

This episode originally aired Feb. 18, 2015. Whether you're in a convenience store in Ushuaia, the southernmost tip of Argentina, Mexico City or East L.A., you're likely to hear cumbia blaring from a ...

Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT) is celebrating its 42nd anniversary, as it further consolidates itself as the biggest cultural and artistic landmark in northwestern Mexico. Since its inauguration on ...

Chuck Prophet remembers the day he started listening to cumbia, the Latin American musical style that forms the backbone of his new album Wake the Dead. It was probably 10 years ago, and Prophet was ...

As albums covers go, MNGWA’s The Strange One is deceptive. Is it a cat’s head peeping through a hole in a lush jungle canopy? Or is it a cat’s head-shaped opening in the vegetation that opens up a ...

This Sunday, José Luis Carballo will be the central figure of the “Tribute to Peruvian cumbia” segment included in the Peruvian Fest Chim Pum Callao LA 2022, at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - When a group of Argentine and Mexican veterans of girl-punk bands got together two years ago to start a new group, they decided rock-and-roll had lost any outrage for them.

If Thee Commons aren’t the best live band in Los Angeles, they’re damn near the top. On a recent fall night, on a big stage downtown, the band’s three members — brothers David and Rene Pacheco on ...

Whether you're in a convenience store in Ushuaia, the southernmost tip of Argentina, Mexico City or East L.A., you're likely to hear cumbia blaring from a stereo. In Latin America, no musical style ...