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...
Adiós Cometa: Beautiful hurricanes
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Archive photos Goodbye Comet...it can come from anywhere Good albums come from anywhere. They don't necessarily originate in the most vital and famous places on the planet. Sure, emerging in New York, London,...
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...
Mujeres (playlist en movimiento): Ellas hacen el mejor pop de nuestros tiempos.
Por equipo de Zonagirante.com @zonagirante Arte portada Zonagirante Estudio Algo cambió en el mapa del pop independiente y no fue un accidente. Tampoco una moda. Fue un desplazamiento silencioso pero firme del centro creativo. Hoy, buena parte del nuevo pop que...
Tonadas Actuales: Música para gente extraña (y convencida)
Por equipo de Zonagirante.com @zonagirante Apoyenos donando a través de Ko-fi Arte portada Zonagirante Estudio Bienvenidos, queridos oyentes imaginarios, a este espacio donde no vamos a decir “¡arriba esos ánimos que ya es viernes!” ni prometer éxitos que “te...
Novel Sounds #playlist: Let's be intergalactic wolves singing to the stars
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio There's something profoundly untamed about independent music. It doesn't respond to tax calendars or trends choreographed by algorithms. It's born where there's still risk. Where someone...
Sean Wheeler and Los Caminos: Blues from the border, punk from the soul
By José Gandour @zonagirante Archive photos Sean Wheeler A man goes in and out of prison. His wife can't take it anymore. A phone call says it all. And then, 30 seconds of screaming to give you a break. Some guys never change. They go to jail. They get out. They promise...
Adiós Cometa: Beautiful hurricanes
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Archive photos Goodbye Comet...it can come from anywhere Good albums come from anywhere. They don't necessarily originate in the most vital and famous places on the planet. Sure, emerging in New York, London,...
Why do we keep coming back to Bandcamp?
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio There comes a moment, sooner or later, when music stops feeling like an infinite flow and starts feeling fragile. Not because it ends, but because we understand that behind it...
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...