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Episodes — page 8
La Brega: Bonus Track — Songs for the Future of Puerto RicoExplicitFrom our friends at WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios, today we're sharing an episode from the latest season of the podcast La Brega — which traces the history of Puerto Rican music…
Girl Ultra: On Mexico City's 'haunted' energy and why she secretly loves sad songsAcross her evolving discography, which includes everything from R&B ballads to danceable electronic beats, Girl Ultra has solidified her approach to deep, dark songs of love and he…
Camilo Lara: How Mexico's musical 'double agent' seeks a universal dance floorAnamaria Sayre sits down with world-building producer and Mexican Institute of Sound frontman Camilo Lara to talk about using his fearless intuition to help artists find their voic…
Radio Ambulante: Getting DownExplicitFrom our friends at Radio Ambulante, today we're sharing a thought provoking episode from their latest season. Puerto Rican Patricia Velasquez has spent her whole life listening to…
Julieta Venegas: Why the Mexican pop icon wouldn't call herself a pioneerAnamaria Sayre sits down with Mexican pop icon Julieta Venegas to discuss her role as a trailblazing female vocalist and mom to a daughter with impeccably cool music taste. See pc…
Alt.Latino's Best New Music Round-Up: Karol G, Y La Bamba, The Latin Dead and moreOur digital mailbag continues to overflow with tons of new music from every corner of the Spanish-speaking world. Yet even as we update our weekly playlists on both Spotify and App…
Adrian Quesada: How the U.S.-Mexico border shaped the prolific producer's fluid soundAnamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras sit down with prolific producer and creator Adrian Quesada to discuss his experimental approach to border-driven sonic expression. See pcm.adswi…
Cimafunk: How his Afro-Cuban funk tells a bigger story about the African diasporaAnamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras sit down with Cimafunk to talk about how he's created his singular sound, the complex African lineage of his music and why his band is his "tribe…
Reyna Tropical: How Fabi Reyna learned to listen to her revolutionary intuitionAnamaria Sayre sits down with Fabi Reyna of Reyna Tropical to talk about the process of trusting yourself, how music saved her life and moving forward after losing her creative col…
Encore: The Cuban roots of rock and rollCan you hear the cha-cha-cha in The Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"? Or the mambo in Ray Charles' "What'd I Say"? This week, Alt.Latino revisits a classic episode f…
