by Address | January 26, 2016 | lightning and thunderbolts
By José Gandour @gandour It's always healthy for a critic when a band comes along and silences their prejudices with good music. I must confess that lately, with a few notable exceptions, I've been wary of the new Mexican rock scene. Much of what we...
by Address | January 26, 2016 | lightning and thunderbolts
By José Gandour @gandour Some Colombian musicians are venturing into creating new excuses to dance. They're going into their sound labs and turning on the blenders to find new flavorful concoctions to get listeners' bodies moving...
by Address | January 26, 2016 | Videos
By José Gandour @gandour With simple lyrics and art forms, some groups manage to captivate their audience. The Mexican band Los Reyna seems to have grasped this formula, which is reflected in their music and promotional videos. In the...
by Address | January 19, 2016 | lightning and thunderbolts
By José Gandour @gandour For many years we've been hearing that phrase, yes, that one: "Rock is dead." And it's possible that it is. There's so much bad music out there hanging on the rock label that sometimes we forget what the original intentions were...
by Address | January 19, 2016 | Videos
By José Gandour @gandour Within the Bogotá rock scene, and surely in other Latin American music scenes as well, the lack of economic resources and the almost total disappearance of patrons who provide funding to support art (or the laziness of some, like...).