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Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite new music, from Puerto Rican rapper Young Miko’s boundary-pushing new music, to Alejandro Escovedo’s genre-bending rock and Angelica Garcia’s electro-cumbia.<br/><br/>Songs featured in this episode:<br/>• Young Miko, “Tamagotchi”<br/>• The Mavericks, “Moon & Stars (with Sierra Ferrell)”<br/>• Angelica Garcia, “Juanita”<br/>• Alejandro Escovedo, “Castañuelas”<br/>• Nella, Yendry, “Veinte Años”<br/>• Sheila E., “Bemba Colorá (ft. Gloria Es…
17 days ago
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Shakira just released her first album in seven years, <em>Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran</em>, and most listeners and critics have high praise. But this episode of <em>Alt.Latino</em> puts the record to the test.<br/><br/>Felix Contreras, Anamaria Sayre and NPR’s Isabella Gomez Sarmiento talk about what makes a Shakira record a <em>Shakira record</em>, how pop artists reinvent themselves and loving your favorite artists even if you don’t always love their music.<br/><br/>Songs featured in this episode…
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Shakira just released her first album in seven years, <em>Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran</em>, and most listeners and critics have high praise. But this episode of <em>Alt.Latino</em> puts the record to the test.<br><br>Felix Contreras, Anamaria Sayre and NPR’s Isabella Gomez Sarmiento talk about what makes a Shakira record a <em>Shakira record</em>, how pop artists reinvent themselves and loving your favorite artists even if you don’t always love their music.<br><br>Songs featured in this episode:<br…
about 1 month ago
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The weather’s heating up and so are the music releases. The hosts of <em>Alt.Latino</em> share their most quintessentially them picks, with Latin jazz across the board from Felix and indie pop-rock bops from Ana. <br/><br/>The two sit down to ping-pong favorite picks back and forth from different parts of the country — plus, Felix puts Ana’s picks to an impromptu test.<br/><br/>Featured tracks:<br/><br/>Lara Project, “Extraños”<br/>Julieta Eugenio, “Breath I”<br/>Esteman, Villano Antillano, “Noc…
about 1 month ago
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The weather’s heating up and so are the music releases. The hosts of <em>Alt.Latino</em> share their most quintessentially them picks, with Latin jazz across the board from Felix and indie pop-rock bops from Ana. <br/><br/>The two sit down to ping-pong favorite picks back and forth from different parts of the country — plus, Felix puts Ana’s picks to an impromptu test.<br/><br/>Featured tracks:<br/><br/>Lara Project, “Extraños”<br/>Julieta Eugenio, “Breath I”<br/>Esteman, Villano Antillano, “Noc…
about 1 month ago
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We update our tally of the year’s best contenders with the effervescent Bombay Bicycle Club, Residente’s epic and profound “313,” cellist Maya Beiser’s take on Terry Riley’s <em>In C</em> and more.<br/><br/><em>Alt.Latino</em>‘s Anamaria Sayre and NPR Music’s Tom Huizenga join host Robin Hilton<br/><br/>Featured Artists And Songs:<br/>1. Bombay Bicycle Club: “Willow (feat. Lucy Rose),” from ‘Fantasies’<br/>2. Ela Taubert: “Como Paso” (single)<br/>3. Jlin: “Sodalite (feat. Kronos Quartet),” from…
about 2 months ago
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Alt.Latino’s Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras visited Cuba and give us an audio-rich tour of Havana.
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Is it really a good idea to take a vacation with your coworkers? If you’re part of the <em>Alt.Latino</em> team, it is. <br/>Last month <em>Alt.Latino</em> co-host Anamaria Sayre decided to join Felix Contreras on a planned trip to attend the 39th annual Havana Jazz Festival, an international event that attracts fans of both Cuban music and jazz from around the world. Spread out among several historic venues around the Cuban capital city, the team spent eight days taking in the sights and sounds…
about 2 months ago
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Is it really a good idea to take a vacation with your coworkers? If you’re part of the <em>Alt.Latino</em> team, it is. <br/>Last month <em>Alt.Latino</em> co-host Anamaria Sayre decided to join Felix Contreras on a planned trip to attend the 39th annual Havana Jazz Festival, an international event that attracts fans of both Cuban music and jazz from around the world. Spread out among several historic venues around the Cuban capital city, the team spent eight days taking in the sights and sounds…
about 2 months ago
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Nothing captures the agony of love, loss, hope and redemption like the song form known across all of Latin America: the bolero.<br><br>Last December, UNESCO declared the bolero “an intangible cultural heritage of humanity” and “an indispensable part of the Latin American sentimental song.” And given that Valentine’s Day is coming up, Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre did something special this week, in honor of this news: they asked some of their favorite artists and show listeners to share the…
3 months ago
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Nothing captures the agony of love, loss, hope and redemption like the song form known across all of Latin America: the bolero.<br/><br/>Last December, UNESCO declared the bolero “an intangible cultural heritage of humanity” and “an indispensable part of the Latin American sentimental song.” And given that Valentine’s Day is coming up, Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre did something special this week, in honor of this news: they asked some of their favorite artists and show listeners to share t…
3 months ago
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The San Diego-based trio made its mark at the Tiny Desk with satin vocals and vintage melodies.
3 months ago
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Vocalist Ana Tijoux has been a frequent guest on Alt.Latino. That’s because ever since her US debut, <em>1977</em>, was released in 2010, Tijoux had been at the forefront of Latin music that celebrates creative innovation, themes of social justice and fierce independence.<br/>In this week’s episode the Chilean musician talks to Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre about why that spirit of innovation has been more or less silent for the last 10 years, and how her new album, <em>Vida,</em> is not on…
3 months ago
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Host Robin Hilton hangs with NPR Music’s Anamaria Sayre and Tom Huizenga to share their current musical obsessions, from the solo piano of Philip Glass to the garage punk of Sprints, Spain’s super chill Club del Rio and more.<br/><br/><strong>Featured Artists And Songs:</strong><br/>1. Lavinia Meijer: “The Departure” from <em>Winter</em><br/>2. Xavi: “La Diabla (Single)<br/>3. Faye Webster and Lil Yachty: “Lego Ring” from <em>Underdressed at the Symphony<br/></em>4. Philip Glass: “Opening,” from…
4 months ago
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In the earliest days of the show, Alt.Latino’s mailbox was usually piled high with CDs of new music from both emerging and well-known artists.<br/><br/>Now, Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre’s email and social media accounts continue to open up new musical worlds at Alt.Latino and — in turn — all of you. The show starts 2024 with some great tracks from names you may know and a couple of bands that Felix and Ana think deserve wider recognition.<br/><br/><em>Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino w…
4 months ago
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In the earliest days of the show, Alt.Latino’s mailbox was usually piled high with CDs of new music from both emerging and well-known artists.<br/><br/>Now, Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre’s email and social media accounts continue to open up new musical worlds at Alt.Latino and — in turn — all of you. The show starts 2024 with some great tracks from names you may know and a couple of bands that Felix and Ana think deserve wider recognition.<br/><br/><em>Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino w…
4 months ago
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The Chihuahuan artist transfigures traditional Sinaloan instrumentation into folky new styles.
4 months ago
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While 2022 may have been a year completely dominated by a certain sad summer reggaeton album, 2023 drew its power from a set of familiar sounds that took on new prominence: tubas, accordions and a whole lot of lively, sneakily danceable beats. As we’ve been talking about on Alt.Latino for some time, Mexican Regional music broke through in a big way this year, and we found it incredible to witness the most boisterous and uncompromising sounds from that long tradition make their way across the wor…
5 months ago
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While 2022 may have been a year completely dominated by a certain sad summer reggaeton album, 2023 drew its power from a set of familiar sounds that took on new prominence: tubas, accordions and a whole lot of lively, sneakily danceable beats. As we’ve been talking about on Alt.Latino for some time, Mexican Regional music broke through in a big way this year, and we found it incredible to witness the most boisterous and uncompromising sounds from that long tradition make their way across the wor…
5 months ago
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You know all those tubas and brass instruments you hear behind your favorite regional Mexican hits? That’s <em>banda sinaloense</em> and this week <em>Alt.Latino</em> wraps up the Regional Goes Global series with a visit to Sinaloa, Mexico, the birthplace of the genre.<br/><br/>Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras visit the picturesque town Mocorito, a pueblo magico where tradition and pride in the musical heritage runs deep. That’s the case even among members of the drug cartels, which are respon…
5 months ago
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For the second episode of <em>Alt.Latino</em>’s regional Mexican music series, hosts Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras interview the rising family band Yahritza y Su Esencia in its hometown of Yakima, Wash. The two discover that the U.S.-Mexico border looms large in this regional Mexican moment, especially for Yahritza y Su Esencia — not strictly because of the music’s obvious Mexican roots, but also the ways in which the border can create an “us” and “them” dynamic. The band’s struggles with m…
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