Day 4

Joel Moya
Partnerships & Publicity

Winners:

1. Subsuelo for taking a temporary residency in NYC last week.

2. Jessica Weber from Co-sign for spreading the Remezcla Gospel at the “What Actually Moves the Needle?” panel. You goooo girl.

3. Carmen (Doll Music), Roberto (Epicentro), Valeria (Spotify), Mario (Vevo), KaryAnn (Sony Music Latin), Maclovio (Gibson), Dr Lacxos (La Casetera), Marissa Gastelum (iTunes), Nelson (Shure), Kirsys (#Viennasmom BFF), and each one of you that I spent time with in the last couple of days. You’re all #DedicatedFans.

4. Romeo Santos (wait and you’ll see).

5. Artist and friends rocking Remezcla swag.

Losers:

1. Whoever decided to move the Gramercy show to a Friday date; by then people are either way too tired, or maybe on the way back home.

2. Those of you that stayed home and didn’t come to any of the official or unofficial shows. Do not use the weather as an excuse, we had the best weather ever.

3. I missed Ana Tijoux’s show Friday night.

4. LAMC is over and so is the World Cup, now back to work 🙁

Manager of Partnerships & Publicity

Winners:

1. La Santa Cecilia for playing the best day set on a bright sunny Saturday afternoon in Central Park.

2. All of the Argentinian attendants at Central park for wearing the azul celeste jersey in support of their soccer team and for screaming their heart outs when Babasónicos played “Yegua.”

Losers:

1. The World Cup match for third place (Brasil v. Netherlands) for overlapping with the last LAMC show. News of the first two goals against Brasil came in as Juana Molina was starting her set and it was hard to get back the good vibes. Can we discuss streaming the soccer matches at Central Park?

Juan Data
Freelance Writer

Winners:

1. La Santa Cecilia premiered their animated video of their Beatles cover, “Strawberry Fields Forever,” on the big screen.

2. Juana Molina pleased the impatient, soccer-jersey wearing Argentine fans by hinting the melody of her national team’s unofficial chant.

3. It felt like a reunion party backstage at SummerStage for Argentine musicians, with Babasónicos and Juana Molina plus Illya Kuryaki and Nito of Los Auténticos Decadentes showing up to support and wish each other luck for the World Cup final.

Losers:

1. La Santa Cecilia played too early and a lot of people missed them. Juana Molina should’ve opened instead because…

2. I love Juana Molina and I have nothing but respect for her art, but I don’t think the outdoors stage and big crowds are the ideal for her quirky music and her stationary performance.

3. I miss when Babasónicos used to do medleys of their old ’90s classics. They almost exclusively played post-Jessico stuff, which is great, but doesn’t appeal to the nostalgia of this writer who used to go see them live a lot in 1995.

Sara Skolnick
Music Editor

Winners:

1. Babasónicos/Juana Molina/la Santa Cecilia for bringing out a pretty intergenerational crowd to SummerStage.

2. Que Bajo?! for packing out Tammany Hall without announcing a lineup more detailed than “special guests.” That’s a sign of some serious trust from your community.

Losers:

1. I’m all for forward-thinking programming, and was psyched for her SummerStage appearance, but Juana Molina could have been much better suited in a more intimate venue.

2. Me, for not finding a way to clone myself in time to make it to Azucar!’s LAMC closing party with Maracuyeah as well.