10 albums that confirm 2024 was better than you think
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio We're not going to start arguing at this point in the year with other media outlets that have made a huge effort in creating great selections of the best albums from their country, continent, or...
New albums on Bandcamp: The Unexplained Things/Jaranatambó/Exocet/Cóclea
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Support us by donating via Ko-fi Cover art by Zonagirante Studio 4 discs for very different moods Zonagirante.com audience: Let's do an exercise that's good to do from time to time. Instead of...
2024 in the rearview mirror: The videos that shocked us this year
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio In a world saturated with distractions, music videos continue to resist, like a handful of creative rebels in a digital desert. With smaller budgets, but more ideas, these...
Twenty-four: Our favorite songs of the year
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio Yes, as the title says: These are the songs by Latin American artists that we enjoyed the most in 2024. It's that simple. No market research or measurements here...
Novel Sounds #playlist: The astronauts are back.
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio The astronauts have returned to Zonagirante.com, and with them they bring more than just stories of orbits and distant galaxies: they bring the interstellar winds that blow towards new frontiers...
2025: Global Independence Playlist
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio Listening to new music today is, paradoxically, an act of resistance. Not because there's a lack of songs, but because there are too many shortcuts. Algorithms that decide for us, rankings that repeat themselves endlessly...
2025: Last AI chat of the year
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio (we thank the online community for the memes) Editor's note: Zonagirante.com, in 2025, has lost its fear of using artificial intelligence technology in the development of its...
2025, albums that will define the year
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio There's no single way to listen this year. Nor is there a dominant sound that explains what's happening. The musical map of 2025 shifts, becomes contaminated, contradicts itself, and expands from...
2025: Unforgettable Videos
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio Let's be serious: anyone can try to make a music video. Today, any band or artist grabs their phone and starts making something with their songs. In 99.91% of cases...
2025: Notable and unexpected covers
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio What do José Luis Perales, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Chavela Vargas, Juan Luis Guerra, Dean Kay, and a few other names that, at first glance, don't seem to sit at the same table have in common?.
2025: Prohibit, censor, and correct the world (badly)
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art: Zonagirante Studio Editor's Note And suddenly you glance at the news sites and are confronted, head-on, with fearful decisions made by absurd people in power. And all of this, unexpectedly, makes you...
2025: 25 Out-of-This-World Latin Tunes
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio They didn't come to save Latin music. They came in flying saucers, with sensitive antennas and infinite patience. From the stratosphere, the panorama was uniform. Repeated signals, rhythms...
2025: When music technology stopped commanding respect
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio A long walk through apps, machines, fetishes, useful tools, and trends that made the future a more livable place. For a long time, music technology had a problem with...
Women: 25 songs from 2025
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio This isn't a playlist to use as background music. Nor is it a ranking, a "top" list, or a competition with imaginary medals. This is a journey through songs made in 2025, conceived, recorded, and...
2025: Music, chaos, and disobedience in a year that already sounds different
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio Intro 2025 is closing out as a strange, very strange year. And what's to come will continue to bring opacity, uncertainty, a persistent feeling of being ridiculed by others and, at times, by ourselves as well....
Shoegaze: 20 Argentine bands #playlist
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio For Christmas, we can't think of better music than the endless variations of shoegaze. There's something about that mix of electric fog and melting melodies that goes best with...
Current Tunes (Playlist in Motion): Music Against Terror
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Support us by donating via Ko-fi Cover art by Zonagirante Studio Music against terror is not a slogan, nor a consolation. It is not therapy. It is not decoration. It is an atavistic form of resistance, an emotional archive where...
