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INTERVIEW: The Altons Are Taking Their Nostalgic Soul Rock Grooves Around the World

Nayeli Portillo — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:16:08 +0000

Los Angeles, CA-based soul rockers The Altons vibrate on a whole other frequency. After years of cutting their teeth playing house shows and dive bars across their hometown, signing with Daptone Records, and landing a spot at this year’s Bonnaroo Music Festival alongside Thee Sinseers as one of the handful of Latine-led acts on the

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Creative Director Tita Garcia Turned Being Told ‘No’ Into Her Superpower

Nayeli Portillo — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:00:47 +0000

“The truth is I’m a musician,” Tita Garcia, creative director, producer, and CEO/founder of Violet House Entertainment, says about her start in the music industry. “I’m a singer-songwriter. I played guitar and piano, and I was born into music because of my grandfather, a great piano player, and my father, who was in one of

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INTERVIEW: After Conquering Música Mexicana, Xavi Just Wants to Rebuild His Mom’s Taquería

Nayeli Portillo — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 18:00:36 +0000

Joshua Xavier Gutierrez, aka Xavi, pauses when asked if he remembers what he was up to before 2022 — before his viral hits like “La Víctima” took off and artists like Peso Pluma would drop by to greet him during a recording session. “Before all of this, before everything? I was running my mom’s taquería,”

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Meet Quelle Rox, the Brooklyn Artist Transforming Her Heartache into Ethereal R&B-Influenced Dream Pop Stunners

Nayeli Portillo — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:00:28 +0000

She may be young, but Quelle Rox is well-versed in chronicling matters of the heart. The R&B-meets-dream pop artist’s songs are intensely absorbing: her internal monologues are all too relatable, and she makes sure every one of her innermost feelings is felt. She’s not aloof about deeply unrequited love. Her confessionals spill out against blissfully

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Just Because She Was Born in the U.K., That Doesn’t Make Sophie Castillo Less Latina

Nayeli Portillo — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:51:59 +0000

“A lot of people think that when you move somewhere as far away as the U.K., you just become British, or your children just become fully British, but it was so natural for my parents to keep their culture alive,” says London-based Colombian-Cuban singer and songwriter Sophie Castillo. It ties into a lot of people’s

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Meet The Red Pears, the El Monte Band Playing Coachella 2024

Nayeli Portillo — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:47:21 +0000

While many use the term indie rock to refer to a broader, unpolished sound versus its independent-focused way of life, El Monte, CA, band The Red Pears are the result of what comes with standing by the subculture’s original uncommodified, ‘anyone-can-do-it’ attitude towards their music. Made up of singer and guitarist Henry Vargas, drummer Jose

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How Laura Stylez Went From Answering Phones to Becoming a Prominent Voice in Media

Nayeli Portillo — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:06:21 +0000

“I am first a fan of hip hop. It’s what really brought me here,” says Laura Stylez, media personality and one of the hosts of Hot 97’s long-running morning radio show Ebro in the Morning. Born in Los Angeles and raised by Guatemalan parents, Stylez says the closest thing to finding community growing up was through

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INTERVIEW: Hurray for the Riff Raff Embraces Outsider Culture on ‘The Past is Still Alive’

Nayeli Portillo — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 22:31:37 +0000

“I always kind of felt like I could go back in time and that something would continue to happen forever, but I think that’s just youth,” folk singer-songwriter and guitarist Alynda Mariposa Segarra, who records under the name Hurray for the Riff Raff, tells Remezcla. It was a harsh but necessary realization — the difference

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INTERVIEW: Becky G Embraces Corridos’ Art of Storytelling on ‘ESQUINAS’

Nayeli Portillo — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:06:18 +0000

Becky G curls up on a burnt orange couch as she maps out the Inglewood neighborhood where she was raised, all by memory. “When I look at where I grew up, everything is on a nearby corner,” she says. She’s thousands of miles from home, inside Brooklyn’s Tower Labs, where the boxy and uninviting muted

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Ed Maverick: Revealing the Person Behind the Music in New Short Doc

Nayeli Portillo — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:12:56 +0000

There’s a mystique that surrounds the story of Eduardo Hernández Saucedo, also known as Ed Maverick. In 2019, the singer and self-taught guitarist from Delicias, Chihuahua, catapulted from a shaggy-haired teenager looking to pass the time by learning Jake Bugg covers to overnight success after gaining traction on platforms like SoundCloud and Spotify. He turned heads with his

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