The nice thing about the internet is that the turnaround time is like .001 seconds on basically anything ever. When we got turned on to Shawn Reynaldo and Oro11's awesome upstart cumbia label Bersa ...
Let’s face it: cumbia (traditional or not) can be really cheesy. So thank God for the fusionistas. The good ones, that is. What follows is only my personal top 10 and a good representation of artists ...
The scene outside of The Regent in downtown Los Angeles on a recent Saturday night, is wild. The venue, which holds a thousand people, is sold out and the gaggle of goths waiting to get inside is ...
It still feels like it was yesterday when a viral video on TikTok made a group of six friends from South Texas into one of the top regional Mexican bands in the country two years ago. On Saturday ...
You can chase your tequila with a little cumbia on Sunday, June 10, as Roxanne’s Cocktail Lounge holds its third annual Cumbia & Tequila Festival. The event runs from noon to 6 p.m. and includes live ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Music has been a lifeline for Micky Cruz. The self-taught musician had to learn how to play guitar and sing during his childhood in order to survive. Born in Nicaragua, Cruz ...
One of the most listened-to genres in the Americas, photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document ...
If you’ve not heard of cumbia, there’s never been a better time to get in-the-know. One of Colombia’s finest cultural exports, it’s a style of music and dance that is so irresistibly grooved that it ...
Once the soundtrack of the working class, cumbia's simple, yet contagious, rhythm absorbed local styles, morphed, and reinvented itself. It has traveled underground through the veins of Latin America ...