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Meet Mawiza, the Mapuche Metal Band Decolonizing Heavy Music

Juan Sebastián Barriga Ossa — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:18:50 +0000

Just like roots crack through concrete and help trees bloom, this Chilean band sprouted from a seed passed down by their ancestors. Slowly and powerfully, Mawiza has broken through prejudice, language barriers, discrimination, and even the strict rules of metal itself. The result is a project that not only delivers a fresh, innovative, challenging, and

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Meet Joss ML, the Reggaeton Mexicano Artist Opening El Malilla’s Amazon Music City Session

Jeanette Hernandez — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:15:08 +0000

Once marginalized to the barrios of the state of Mexico, reggaeton mexa is starting to have its moment in the mainstream. From a Coachella debut to the upcoming Amazon Music’s City Sessions on July 2 in Mexico City, El Malilla has become one of the most prominent names in the movement, but he hasn’t done

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Meet Blue Rojo, the Club Crooner Spilling Mexico City’s Tea

Richard Villegas — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:00:00 +0000

In the video for his ballroom-tinged single “Contramar,” singer and producer Blue Rojo plays the deranged maître d’ of the famed Mexico City restaurant, catering to a crowd of nightlife starlets through strobing lights, cascading wine, and gorging maws. “Selfie con Dua Lipa en el Contramar,” he muses over a thumping catwalk beat, winking at

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Meet Jaloo, the Brazilian Goddess Breaking Regional Labels by Mixing Ancestral Sounds

Ana Clara Ribeiro — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:21:55 +0000

With three solo albums under her belt and one album with her band Os Amantes, Jaloo changed her legal name to Jade Melo in 2024. “You know you’re one of us, right?” Jaloo recounts hearing from her trans friends before transitioning herself. “Yeah, I know,” she’d respond, then fully presenting as a man, or a

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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 Gabriella Martinez, the Colombian-Boricua-Korean Singer Redefining Tejano Music

Janette Villafana — Fri, 30 May 2025 21:32:46 +0000

With a powerhouse voice and a sound that feels nostalgic and new simultaneously, Gabriella Martinez of Tampa, FL, has won the hearts of her listeners and hardcore Tejano music fans with her Tex-Mex cumbias. The Latin GRAMMY nominee and two-time Tejano Music Awards winner just dropped “El Amor Se Nos Murió,” an emotion-filled ballad that

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Meet PUTOCHINOMARICÓN, Spain’s Master of Electropop Brainrot

Richard Villegas — Fri, 16 May 2025 14:00:00 +0000

The incisive wit of Chenta Tsai is what camp dreams are made of. Under his polemic alias, PUTOCHINOMARICÓN, the Taiwanese-born and Madrid-raised artist has built a career on uproarious takedowns. He debuted in 2018 with the grunge-pop LP Corazón de Cerdo con Ginseng al Vapor and poured sardonic vitriol into early hits “Gente de Mierda”

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Meet La Marimba, the Dominican Roots Music Star Who Played Fefita La Grande

Richard Villegas — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:35:21 +0000

Back in March 2022, La Marimba took the stage at Santo Domingo’s massive Olympic Stadium, opening for British alt-pop superstars Coldplay during their blockbuster Music of the Spheres Tour. Clips circulated Dominican social media as the statuesque singer-songwriter powered through favorites like “Agua Que Llegó” and “No Se Puede Apagar,” bringing a welcome dose of

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Meet Yungatita, the Los Angeles Artist Keeping the Backyard Show Feeling Alive

Alan Baez — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 17:12:46 +0000

In the land where dreams of “making it big” are co-opted by corporate sponsors and the sparks of artistic ingenuity are fanned to the point of exhaustion by an exploitative industry, it’s important to witness the roses from the concrete bloom naturally. The city of Los Angeles has been the epicenter of creative movements. It’s

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Meet Judeline, the Andalusian Pop Siren Conjuring Spiritual Realms

Rosy Alvarez — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:30:56 +0000

For Lara Fernández, aka Judeline, becoming a singer was always meant to happen. Recalling her earliest metaphysical connection to sound, she describes being consumed by emotion upon hearing music through the car radio as a child. “I’d feel a ton of sensations, get chills, and break out in tears,” the Cadiz native tells Remezcla. “I

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