To be a fan of salsa music in New York during the ‘60s and ‘70s was to witness an explosion—a growing diversity of Latinos came together to create a new kind of Latin music that was no longer dependent on Cuban exports and reflected the gritty reality of living in the city. At the center […]
Read moreSi te quieres divertir Con encanto y con primor Solo tienes que vivir Un verano en nueva york –El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico Every year for 15 years now, New York has hosted the Latin Alternative Music Conference, a four-day affair that celebrates and promotes emerging Latin music that diverges from traditional genres like […]
Read moreWhat do I love most about Puerto Rico? I guess it’s the cocos. They’re like my head. Hard. Then again, there are the plátanos. They stain my skin. In a good way. Anyway, I’ve gotten some bugging from certain social media interests to compile my own list of songs that make me “Happy” about being […]
Read moreLet’s have a conversation. About death. It’s been on our minds lately. Everyone seems to be talking about it. This is the culmination of a season where, according to a panelist last night at the Viajero-Borish Dia de los Muertos Collective event at the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, we have been observing the slow […]
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Man this whole Metallica thing really doesn’t make any sense to me. Mariano, I guess, being the gracious guy he is, accepted the whole thing like everything was cool. But I really don’t get what “Enter Sandman” has to do with anything. Just because they played the Apollo last night means they got soul I […]
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Draco Rosa: From Livin’ La Vida Loca to Beating Cancer By ED MORALES March 20, 2013 For a while Draco Rosa was losing his grip on life, fighting a gritty battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which he’d been diagnosed with in April 2011, and finding himself alone in his room, facing his own mortality. “You’re in […]
Read moreWhen you think of 75-year-old Eddie Palmieri, legendary Nuyorican pianist, you think about his classic salsa hits like “Azúcar,” “Justicia,” or “La Malanga.” Or maybe you remember his extensive series of Latin jazz recordings post-1980. But the enigmatic truth about Palmieri is that while he will deny being a salsero or a jazz musician, he is […]
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