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Lightning Trip: Believe in noise as your fire
By José Gandour @zonagirante Lightning Trip: the Argentine shoegaze that revives the spirit of the 90s I believe in music that knows how to combine the sharp exclamation of distortion with the tenderness of melodies that don't resort to shouting as an easy way to express...
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Utah, new noise from Rosario
By José Gandour @zonagirante Turbulent times, some radical might think, call for equally turbulent music. These are confusing days, filled with a cruelty we thought we had vanquished, now returning stronger than ever, and some will think that the best way to...
flat-earth, moving Brazilian shoegaze
By José Gandour @zonagirante 🌫 Flat Earth: Sound Postcards from Brazil We've confessed it several times: the Zonagirante.com office and its surrounding area are a territory of devotion to shoegaze (a subgenre of alternative rock characterized by layers...
Ainda: Still…and higher
By José Gandour @zonagirante 🌱 Because love is written in unexpected ways. Don't you think that, from time to time, we get too tangled up when we want to express the things we want to say, especially when we talk about love? Yes, it's because when we want to...
Alex vs Alex, Guatemalan woman in New York
By José Gandour @zonagirante 🌃 A voice from New York and Guatemala. Her name is Sofía Insua. Her project goes by the name Alex vs Alex. Her songs are a fluid and beautiful combination of alt-pop, drum & bass, and experimental R&B. The...
While the sleepers creak: Uruguayan sensibility live
By José Gandour @zonagirante Lately, good music comes in small packages, many lasting barely twenty minutes. It's as if the audience is being whispered in their ear, with the finest of voices, "If you want more, you'll have to wait a few months, but don't despair, come back for more...".
Flor Frances: Stories from Miami
By José Gandour @zonagirante Florencia Franceschetti, better known as Flor Frances, is an Argentine journalist and radio host with over 15 years of experience in the music scene. Based in Miami, she has collaborated with media outlets such as the Miami New Times, Bandcamp Daily,...
Debut albums: Ana Barajas/Emy Castro/Valentina
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio In this special week, we'll be highlighting three recent publications by women from our hemisphere: Ana Barajas - Mango Motel This Colombian woman, a resident...
Female guitars: A playlist made with new energy
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio As part of this week's tribute to women in contemporary music, we set about creating a selection of twenty songs that...
Sonoras Mil: The rock 'n' roll blender is still going strong
By José Gandour @zonagirante Listening to the Colombian band Sonoras Mil is like embarking on a retrofuturistic adventure. Let me explain: What this group does and plays sounds like a psychedelic journey through the western part of the country in the 1970s, a time when...
Hanging hearts (Oh no, Valentine's Day is coming! – Covers)
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art: Zonagirante Studio Editor's note: The truth is, this playlist takes shape as soon as we remember Maria Gabriela Epumer. It all begins from the moment that, by happy accidents on a rainy afternoon...
La Zorra Zapata premieres a new session on KEXP
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Let's take it one step at a time. The truth is, in a bureaucratic sort of way, we'll throw out a few phrases to talk about Nuria "La Zorra" Zapata and her session on the prestigious North American radio station KEXP, based in Seattle (just like that,...
Wow! Mariachis trapped by pop and rock
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art: Zonagirante Studio Editor's note: Several circumstances have led us to republish this article, originally published in May 2020. Today, on the one hand, there's a cold in the office, and on the other hand...
Ela Minus: An eagerly awaited album
By José Gandour @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio Perhaps the first characteristic we should highlight about Gabriela Jimeno, AKA Ela Minus, is that she is a sound inventor, a title we can't attribute to too many musicians. And there's something...




