Electro Hop
Introducing Systema Solar
Systema Solar are among the latest of the bad ass Colombian bands tirando fuego from their homeland. This musical spitfire is the combination of a whole bunch of genres including cumbia, hip-hop, bullenrengue, champeta, house, techno among others (apparently) which they’ve dubbed “berbenautika”. Adding Afro-Colombian vibes by way of Colombia’s Caribbean coast, you get a [...]
Meet Zuzuka Poderosa
Photo credit: Sarah Boyle Brazilian-New Yorker baile funk vocalist Zuzuka Poderosa hits you with beats and a vocal style that is as fresh to these parts as fresh bread from your local bakery. She delivers rhymes in her native Portuguese over bumping beats. It doesn’t even matter whether or not you understand Portuguese; if you [...]
Esperanza Spalding’s new album – Chamber Music Society
My (and Barack Obama’s) favorite jazz musician of the moment Esperanza Spalding is BACK with a new album, slated to drop on August 17th. Check the “making of” video, above. And save those extra dollars, this one’s a worth-it purchase. Peace, Radio M.
Introducing Los Rakas
I’m old school (read: broke): I have a five-year-old iPod mini which holds only 4G worth of music and each day it holds less and less. My struggle to fit new music means old jams head out the door and I am happily deleting TONS of songs to make way for the equal amount of [...]
Maldita Vecindad – Fut Callejero
Talk about timing: Mexican rock band Maldita Vecindad kept us waiting for twelve years for their latest release, Circular Colectivo (Nacional) and now they’ve released the song, “Fut Callejero” (translation: “Street Soccer”), just in time for the World Cup. And we complained Sade kept us waiting? “La Maldita”, as they are known, formed in the [...]
Sarazino’s “Ya Foy!” North American Tour
(video for “People” by Sarazino w/ Toots Hibberts of Toots and the Maytals) Ecuadorian-based Sarazino is slated to come to North America for its first North American tour. The band’s frontman, Lamine Falleh, was born in Algeria to diplomats and lived in places like Spain, Switzerland, Burundi and Burkina Faso. He left Montreal, Canada after [...]
Mexicans with Guns new 12″, ‘Me Gusto’
Mexicans with Guns is the alter ego of LA producer Ernest Gonzalez. After releasing his last LP, Been Meaning To Tell You, he wanted to do something different which thus led him to London and Mexico to explore the deeper side of bass music. MwG released his latest 12″, Me Gusto, this week which takes [...]
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