Latin Music

Fuerza Régida is riding high. The música Mexicana band performed a sold-out show at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles over the weekend, breaking the record for the highest attendance for a Latin act at the venue. And on Friday, they released their cumbia soccer-themed track “Tiki Taka Toco” to celebrate …

The Latin Recording Academy is gearing up for its annual Latin Grammy season. The organization has announced the winners of both the Lifetime Achievement and Trustees awards winners. Spanish star Ana Torroja, Argentine band Soda Stereo, trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, Mexican singer Mijares, and Carmen Linares are set to receive the …

J Balvin is in his comeback era. On Monday, he spoke to Nylon for an interview about his return to the spotlight two years after releasing his album Jose. The singer revealed he’s made an energy-filled album featuring new sounds like EDM and pilita, a Dominican take on electronic music. …

Over the past decade, the Pacific Northwest has steadily blossomed into a stateside haven for fresh, alternative sounds from Latin America. In Portland, parties such as Gran Ritmos and Tropidahl transformed nightlife by celebrating diasporic hybrids of cumbia, dembow, and bhangra. Meanwhile, in Seattle, the psych and punk bedlam of …

Karol G made history with her album Mañana Será Bonito, which became the first album from a solo Spanish-language female artist to reach number one on the Billboard 200. After announcing a massive tour with major stadium shows across the U.S. this summer, Karol now has even more in store: …

Nathy Peluso debuted “Salvaje” on Wednesday, a house-driven track inspired by ballroom culture. The new single — written and produced by Peluso, in collaboration with Didi Gutman and Illangelo — was accompanied by a music video directed by Félix Bollaín and produced by Little Spain. The visual features featuring Peluso …

Juanes’ concert Wednesday at New York’s Central Park was canceled early in the performance due to an enormous overflow crowd and an “abundance of caution,” organizers said. The Colombian rocker was just two songs into his set at the SummerStage when the concert was abruptly halted; while the SummerStage venue …

J Noa, the Dominican teen rap dynamo, drew expressions of wonder and joy from a quartet of rap’s founders with an intricate, sometimes lightning-paced freestyle that stretches on and on. In video, filmed at the birthplace of hip-hop in the Bronx this week, she went off verse after verse, boasting …

Colombia and Mexico’s rap scenes are coming together for a splashy tour. Gera MX and Nanpa Básico will head on their 11-city Qué Chimba La Raza joint tour later this year, Rolling Stone can exclusively reveal. “I’m very excited to return to the stage in the U.S, but this time …

Back in January, Rauw Alejandro took listeners to outer space with his futuristic album Saturno. Now, he’s extending the journey: On Friday, the Puerto Rican star released a surprise “spinoff” record called Playa Saturno, where he brings the beach to the otherworldly planet where he left things off on his …