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...
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...
Making a podcast in 2025: The 3 things I learned from 'The Devil's Hour'‘
By: Alfonso Pinzón @la.horadeldiablo Cover art by Zonagirante Studio 2024 brought, as usual, its share of lessons and challenges. But I want to focus on a completely new experience for me: self-managing a podcast from scratch. The Devil's Hour...
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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...
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...
The New Latin American Gringoland: Tulengua and Industrial Plant
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Support us by donating via Ko-fi Cover art by Zonagirante Studio Migration, damn racists, improves ambient sound One of the great riches of a contemporary nation is its multiculturalism. It's about...
Of birds and humans: a new compilation of migratory sounds
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Support us by donating via Ko-fi Cover art: Zonagirante Studio We are all migrants In such a complex world, full of political, social, and economic risks, we are all potential migrants. In fact, many...
Rosalía, a universal Mediterranean woman
By José Gandour @zonagirante Photos archive Rosalía Lux, the fourth album by Spanish artist Rosalía, has been released. It's obvious that more than one person woke up with their headphones on, ready to write anything and everything about this album. It's understandable that, without having listened to it,...
Lucille Dupin: There's something fresh in the air
By José Gandour @zonagirante Photos from the Lucille Dupin archive Between the sea, rebellion, and the desire to reinvent oneself. I celebrate when an artist knows how to combine the tenderness contained in their timeless discourse with the experimentation necessary to renew their sound. I celebrate...
La Vida Bohème: This is no man's land
By José Gandour @zonagirante Photos from the La Vida Bohème archive 🌋 The Dream and the Eruption A man dreams for several weeks that Ávila, the emblematic mountain of Caracas, erupts. From this dream emerges an album that unfolds like a sensory journey and...
Happy fi is not just a record label, it's also a supergroup
By José Gandour @zonagirante Photos: Happy Fi archive One of the most interesting alternative scenes in Latin America is found in Monterrey, Mexico. Some attribute its strength to its proximity to the US border; others, to the rich folklore of the...