When Bad Bunny dropped his first-ever album X100PRE, it spread through the internet like good gossip. It was Christmas Eve in 2018, the same year that Bad Bunny had exploded as a global megastar — appearing on The Tonight Show and singing during Alesso’s set at Tomorrowland — despite being …
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Data was named one of the best albums of 2023 — but the brilliant compendium of futuristic, boundary-pushing songs took a massive amount of work from super-producer Tainy. The Puerto Rican innovator started masterminding the LP about three years ago, pouring his most avant-garde ideas and interests into the project. …
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T ainy is eloquent and calm, and thinks through every word before constructing sentences that back up his success over two decades. Without a trace of over-confidence, Tainy —whose real name is Marcos Efraín Masis Fernández — has achieved everything he ever dreamed of since he was a teenager making …
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At the beginning of his video for “No Es Culpa Mía,” Pink Pablo traipses into frame, pours a beer over his head, takes off his shirt, kicks a keyboard off its stand, knocks over a rack of clothes, and starts screaming into a mic. What you might not know is …
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On a quiet Friday night in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Ana Macho sits on a feathered gray futon, looking as fabulous as ever. Leaning in with their wire-framed glasses, the artist is excitedly ready to share their story. For them, it’s been a journey: Ana Macho has been trailblazing a path …
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A gentle blanket of clouds covers the sky in Piñones, Puerto Rico, and after Villano Antillano excuses herself to take a phone call, I ask if everything is OK. “Ay no,” she says with a resigned half-smile. “But I can’t solve this.” The day before, in a San Juan bar …
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Colombian reggaeton star Feid looked out into a crowd of 18,500 people during his second sold-out show at Puerto Rico’s José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum on Friday night. Nearly every person was wearing green, just as he’d asked fans to do, and matching light-up wristbands given out at the entrance. He’d …
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Leer en español B ackstage, minutes before Bad Bunny’s headlining set at Coachella, everyone seems to be running on pure adrenaline. A group of dancers are climbing a set of stairs toward their marks when a security guard stops a wardrobe designer in their midst and refuses to let him …
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Read in English D etrás del escenario, minutos antes del concierto de Bad Bunny como cabeza de cartel en Coachella, parece que todo el mundo va de arriba abajo con la adrenalina por las nubes. Un grupo de bailarines sube por unas escaleras hacia sus marcas cuando un guardia de …
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Pink Pablo has been making a name for himself as an alt-urbano force in Puerto Rico, releasing left-of-center tracks that experiment with rock, reggaeton, and lo-fi production. His latest song is “‘Perdimos El Control,” a trippy, playful take on heartbreak that shows off his unique sound and unexpected visual approach. …
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