No doubt June will prove to be a record-breaker, heat-wise, but the month has also seen some fine new albums surfacing. I've ...

“New Jersey based Grupo Majezza have been forging their own path on the cumbia sonidera front for over a decade. With a devoted YouTube and social media following, it was only a matter of time before ...

Summer comes but once a year... and thank heavens for that. Quite apart from my prezidential affairs of state, I've been so ...

Thiago Nassif’s Mente, a panoply of abstruse Modernist mutterings, juddering synths and distortion, lurches like a Frankenstein’s monster. Its incongruous fleshy parts somehow fuse together to ...

As tattoos have grown in popularity over the years, so too have the options for removing them. Whether due to a change in personal taste, lifestyle, or profession, the decision to remove a tattoo is ...

Patricio Guzmán, the acclaimed Chilean documentarian and 2019 Cannes Golden Eye Award-winner, has recently released a series with Icarus Films commemorating the 50th anniversary of the coup in Chile, ...

The far-north coast of Ecuador has a historical and cultural background that sets it apart from most of the rest of the country, with cultural traditions whose roots stretch across the globe. In ...

Whilst spending several weeks in Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, as part of an exciting research project exploring the socio-political effects of coca cultivation and cocaine ...

The day after in Lewisham sees a very special meeting of two traditional Colombian music genres. Representing the Pacific coast will be the marimba sounds of Agrupación Patacoré all the way from ...

Fantasna, real name Sebastián Mella, has been active in the Santiago musical scene since 2001, playing sets on the first edition of Boiler Room, LAMC and Sonar Sound Santiago festival. In 2018 he ...

Mo Scarpelli’s documentary El Father Plays Himself (2020) is a compelling look at the making of a film set in Venezuela in which the director Jorge Thielen Armand has cast his non-actor father to play ...

JKriv, woven into the fabric of Brooklyn’s club culture, is a producer, DJ, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and label- owner, whose two-decade-strong career has earned him ample accolades.