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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...
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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...
Lisa Scha: Pop, redefined
By José Gandour @zonagirante 🎙️ Lisa Scha and her pop rebellion Listening to It's Pop, Stupid: Vol. 1, by the Argentinian artist Lisa Scha, generates two topics for discussion (at least) in the mind of the author of this piece. The first takes us back to our extensive and almost...
Popular Latin artists doing covers of famous songs
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio The vast majority of musical projects began, privately or publicly, wanting to reinterpret the music of their idols, or, perhaps as a transgressive act, contradicting...
New Bandcamp Releases: Viaje Relámpago/Igor y los lunáticos/Os Pampa Haoles/Café Atómico
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio We're venturing back into the jungle of Bandcamp's music scene, armed with machetes in the form of headphones, continuing our search for hidden gems that, we hope, will soon stand out in the vastness...
Birds of Sweden, the best unknown band of the moment
By José Gandour @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio It's certainly a curious fact that a newly formed band is releasing its first album on December 30th, and initially through Bandcamp, which, despite being...
Madonna: Latin covers to kick off the year
By the Zonagirante.com team @zonagirante Cover art by Zonagirante Studio It's been quite a while since Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone arrived in this world in the surely boring town of Bay City, Michigan. Luckily, though, she made her own luck...
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...
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...