Happy Friday From Kumbia Queers!

At first thought, cumbia and punk rock seem like two musical genres that you’d never hear on the same dance floor, let alone be meshed together to form a new […]

By Juan Ramón Palomo On December 27, CBS will broadcast the Kennedy Center Honors, which were held December 4 with President and Mrs. Obama in the audience. Viewers will see […]

“MTV Unplugged: Los Tigres Del Norte and Friends” is the latest multiplatinum effort by the celebrated hit making group, Los Tigres Del Norte. The compact disc is a performance which […]

When most people think of jazz music, the Andean South American nation of Peru isn’t normally what comes to mind. But Peruana Monica Gastelumendi, who currently resides in the U.S. […]

Joan Baez is super famous, the daughter of a man who grew up in Puebla, Mexico. She grew up in New York, sang with Bob Dylan and has been dedicated […]

Comedienne Jesenia Bailey and fellow Latino comedian Carlos A. Gonzalez recently produced a spoof of “La Cucaracha” as performed by Lady Gaga and Pitbull. In the video, below, the two singers […]

This burgeoning Mexico City quartet has got a classic rock sound in which influences of Led Zeppelin and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs can be heard. They started to gain attention after winning […]

After doing a little research, I discovered that only two Latino musicians have been inducted in Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.   If you guessed 1998 inductee Carlos […]

One of the most well-known artists from Chile’s pop-explosion of 2010, Javiera Mena’s last album Mena catapulted her fame to regions outside of her native Santiago. Currently touring in Spain […]

When I was in high school in the 1990s I used to listen to the Voodoo Glow Skulls and think they were the epitome of cool. As a matter of […]