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Artists to Know Before They Blow Up: Ajulliacosta

Amanda Cavalcanti — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Last month, during an European tour, rapper Ajulliacosta became the first Brazilian artist to be featured in one of London’s DJ AG live street sets, where rap legends like Skepta, JME, and Burna Boy have played before. Sporting a Brazil soccer jersey, shaking her braids, and surrounded by women passionately singing her lyrics, the rapper

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Meet Irmãs de Pau, the Baile Funk Duo Redefining Queer Power in São Paulo’s Underground

Amanda Cavalcanti — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:40:12 +0000

At around 2:30 a.m. on May 17, Vita Pereira and Isma Almeida took the stage at the underground electronic music festival Mamba Negra in São Paulo, Brazil, introducing themselves by saying, “Chegou Irmãs de Pau; ela tem pau, e a outra também tem pau,” (“We are here, the sisters with dicks; she has a dick,

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Meet Crypta, the Brazilian Band Taking Death Metal to New Extremes

Amanda Cavalcanti — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:51:26 +0000

Fernanda Lira has had a passion for metal since she was a kid. As a 13-year-old, she looked up to Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris and her dad as inspiration to learn how to play the bass by herself. She played in many metal bands as a teenager and joined Prika Amaral’s thrash metal outfit Nervosa

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How Sepultura’s ‘Roots’ Influenced Latin American Metal Bands

Amanda Cavalcanti — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:47:39 +0000

In the mid to late ‘90s, something funny simultaneously happened in U.S. pop culture. Shiny, innocent-sounding pop like Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys dominated the charts, radio, and MTV. But there was also dark, brooding, sexual metal music on full display. Bands that became known as nu metal – Korn, Deftones, and Limp Bizkit

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