From J Noa’s speed-rapping to Gale‘s polished pop-rock songwriting to Ralph Choo‘s electronic experiments, 2023 was packed with incredible Spanish-language music from artists who aren’t superstars —at least not yet. In the last of our four Rolling Stone Music Now podcast episodes on under-the-radar albums from last year, we dig …
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Even though Usted Señalemelo have been breaking through in a big way over the past few years, the trio from Argentina started out small — with a bunch of 12-year-old kids fiddling around in a studio, to be exact. Band members Juan Saieg, Lucca Beguerie Petrich, and Gabriel Orozco met …
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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 …
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