“I don’t really believe in the concept of creative genius and things like that,” the Argentine artist Fito Páez says from his home in Buenos Aires. “I’m more of a believer in the will and desire to express myself — that’s the heart of the matter.” At 62, the legendary …
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Before the viral Tiny Desk session that put them on the map last year as one of the most exhilarating acts in Latin music, the duo of childhood friends CA7RIEL and Paco Amoroso toiled in obscurity for seven years, honing their craft in their native Buenos Aires with underground rock …
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A few years ago, Amor Elefante seemed ready to cross over into the mainstream. After releasing the album Oriente in 2017 — a sumptuous collage of dream pop melodies and art-rock moods — the Buenos Aires quartet played SXSW in 2019, recorded a 2021 live session for KEXP, and even …
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Liam Payne didn’t “lose his balance” before falling from a hotel balcony; he was trying to escape the building while in a drugged state, according to the judge handling his death investigation. In a ruling today obtained by Rolling Stone, Judge Laura Bruniard shared new information on what led to …
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Ameri, the new album by the Argentine rapper Duki, has been years in the making. Technically, it’s a world that opened up for him when he was recording his last project, 2023’s Antes de Ameri, an LP that pivoted away from the massively commercial path he’d been on since he …
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The echoing voices of a group of 30 Liam Payne fans — holding up signs and posters with the face of the late One Direction star — rung through a busy street of Buenos Aires, Argentina Saturday afternoon as they called for justice in Payne’s death investigation. “¡Justicia por Liam! …
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This story is part of our Sondio Latino series for Hispanic Heritage Month. Read more here. WHEN YOU START playing Murio La Musica, a mixtape by Argentinian rappers AgusFortnite2008 and Stiffy, you hear an onslaught of crunchy 808s and incantation-like chants that ascend through disorienting key changes. As soon as …
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L EER EN ESPAÑOL TINI stands in front of the mirror, staring at her reflection. She picks up a strand of her brown hair and stops for a few seconds to gather courage. Sobbing, she grabs a pair of scissors and starts to cut. The scene is part of the …
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Grasa, the second album by 29-year-old Argentine singer and rapper Nathy Peluso, kicks off with “Corleone,” a sumptuous, old-fashioned bolero. A snippet of John Barry’s dreamy 007 theme “From Russia With Love” morphs into the kind of feverish groove that would have made La Lupe proud. “This ambition is killing …
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Argentina has elected a self-described anarcho-capitalist libertarian Javier Milei as its next president. The result of Sunday’s runoff election will mean sweeping changes to the second-largest economy in South America, which will now be helmed by one of the most bizarre figures in modern politics. An economist-turned-legislator, Milei’s abrasive political …
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