Vita
Dadoo
Lomeli

In 1968, when the second gates of Folsom Prison clanked shut behind Johnny Cash, the king of outlaw country said that what he heard was the sound of permanence. Fifty years later, the Mexican norteño band Los Tigres del Norte followed Cash’s steps.

Hours after former President Donald Trump dodged a bullet last month, a myriad of misleading statements and conspiratorial narratives emerged online. Some falsely argued that “globalists” or the “deep state” were behind the attempted assassination.

Los sonideros han animado las calles de las colonias populares desde mediados del siglo pasado. Susfiestas democratizan el baile, la música y el gozo público. Hoy, ante el rechazo de ciertas autoridades, en Nueva York o en la Ciudad de México.

A las 3:30 PM, Susana Perez, ya llevaba seis horas formada para votar por primera vez en una elección mexicana desde que migró del estado de Puebla a Nueva York en 1995. Ella trabajaba en una compañía textil en Tlaxcala hasta la devaluación de 1994.

Everything was right with the world when a 22-year-old Dan Storper visited the Putumayo River in 1974. Equipped with an academic background in the field of Latin American Studies and a precocious foray into anthropology by way of his aunt, a visiting

Bad Bunny is the most-streamed artist on the planet, a status further underscored by the fact that his new album, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana, is certain to debut at Number One on the Billboard 200 album chart. He’s a fashion icon, a WWE main

In late September, Mexican presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez embarked on a two-day visit to the United States. The senator didn’t visit her American counterparts in Congress. Instead, Gálvez met with leaders of the Mexican migrant community in...

Originally a genre developed in the Colombian Caribbean, cumbia and its many iterations have become the musical lingua franca of Latin America. But to Mexicans living across Mexico and the United States, cumbia has become a transnational movement....

It was 1 a.m., and Thursday night had become Friday morning when Anthony Dominguez, known around the New York City D.J. scene as hellotones, took the stage at the Market Hotel, a club in a 19th-century building whose windows look directly on the.....

Few people have had a better year than Pedro Tovar. The 21-year-old singer is the voice behind Eslabón Armado, one of the biggest bands in the booming música Mexicana scene. This year, Eslabón Armado released Desvelado, a follow up to their 2022 emo

The concept of “labor trafficking” does not have a direct translation in the Zapotec language. There is no direct translation for “mental health” in several Mam dialects spoken by the Indigenous people of Guatemala. In Mixteco, a language of the.....

Americano Media and Latino Media Network raise tens of millions to reach politically influential voters Hours before he was arraigned on criminal charges at a Miami courthouse this week, Donald Trump phoned in to a South Florida radio station to give

It was April 10, 2022, and Corona Plaza in the New York City borough of Queens was bustling with singers, mariachis and a Zumba dance troupe, all brandishing Mexican flags. Folkloric dancers dressed in bright carnival garb paraded around the plaza...

During Netflix’s third quarter earnings call this October, analysts had their sights set on the future of streaming – with ads.Following the announcement of its ad-supported tier, analysts were eager to learn about its impact in The United States.

ALVARO LA FUENTE’S year has been a whirlwind — a product of a budding, but frenetic musical career that has taken him across the world. Prior to releasing his first LP, La Cantera, which came out in May, the Spanish singer, who records under his...

On Aug. 27, the Dadax Club in Mexico City was preparing to welcome over 300 people to a party in celebration of the post-punk band Interpol. Called InterPDA, its meaning is in the name ­— a reference of Interpol's well-known song "PDA" and a pun...

With his roots in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires and arms outstretched to the rest of the world, Trueno is rewriting the playbook for Latin American hip-hop. Wearing a cap for the soccer team Boca Juniors and moving among the spaces of his...

"Chocolate flavored caramel, drench me like so," goes the translated chorus of the viral song "Mi Bebito Fiu Fiu." "Like display window pastry rolls covered in powdered sugar, roll me like so. ... It is you, my little baby boy, fiu fiu."

There has been much written about The Club as an elusive locus of debauchery, excess and, ostensibly, sex. But lately, it feels as if the song-well from which we gave voice to those cringe-filled, crazy nights, has gone dry. Long gone are the days...

This week, Alt.Latino looks to its archive to unearth two conversations about "Regional Mexican," a catch-all term for several music styles emerging from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and corridos, the narrative ballads that bring this music to life.

There are two faces to summer: the ideal and the real. The first is saturated with possibility — reprieves from quotidian duties, longer days and looser inhibitions. The second is suffused with heaviness, rising temperatures and climate anxiety.

What is Latin music? This is a question Alt.Latino has wrestled with in the past, but feels evergreen to larger conversations around national identity, history and musical traditions. Spain occupies an interesting space in conversations...

In 1978, the remaining members of The Doors reunited briefly to record the band’s ninth and final studio album. This album would be an homage to Jim Morrison, rock & roll’s sexy, little Rimbaud, or “a drunken buffoon posing as a poet,” depending...

La nueva concejal tiene el reto de representar al distrito 38, uno de los más diversos de la ciudad y que incluye los vecindarios de Sunset Park, Greenwood Heights y Red Hook. ¿Cómo lo hará? "El verdadero trabajo se hace en los cafecitos".

Welcome back to Songs of Fall, where we write about the music that’s connecting with us most as the weather gets colder. Each entry will be about a song we’ve been listening to a lot lately, new or old. Some will also include personal playlists...

La jornada de votación del martes 2 de noviembre inició a las 6 de la mañana en varios centros de votación en la ciudad de Nueva York, pero fallos en las máquinas de votación y falta de un intérprete que hablara español retrasaron la apertura en...

The relationship between the writer and her food merchants is a familial one extending through generations, and beyond the hunt for that one perfect taco. Mexico City, the “anarchically alive metropolis,” as described by the Guardian, has become...