country: Venezuela

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  program January 17, 2013

  New Baktun(es) – Latino Sounds for 2013

  Brush up on your post Mayan apocalypse roots and join us for trip through the Latino music that will rock your world in the coming year. Co-Host Nadia Reiman (of NPR’s Latino USA) pulls out her crystal ball (and industry … Read more »

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  blog December 11, 2012

  La Gallera Social Club releases “Ecos del tercer Mundo Vol. 2″

  Ecos del tercer Mundo Vol. 1, the first release by La Gallera Social Club, a group of young musicians creating a thrillingly dreamy hybrid of Venezuelan roots, modern electronics, and laid-back indy coo, was easily one of the best things we heard … Read more »

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  blog December 7, 2012

  Running Down The Year, Part 1

  We don’t pretend to be unbiased. We don’t pretend to be categorically correct (or at least, not unless the argument is particularly heated), and we definitely don’t pretend to have heard everything. BUT- the extended Afropop family does wrap its ears around … Read more »

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  interview November 14, 2012

  T.M. Scruggs: Afro-Venezuela

  Venezuela: The Rise of Afro-Venezuelan Music to the Present Day Hugo Chávez Era Venezuela has the longest Caribbean coastline of any nation, and yet the vibrant African musical heritage thriving along that coast has been largely ignored by the nation’s … Read more »

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  blog November 9, 2012

  Bailan los parranderos!

  Wake up n’ get out of bed! The parranderos are here to serenade us! Living in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s, you may have fallen the not-so-unlucky victim of parang, a semi-seasonal activity in which groups of musicians … Read more »