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Categories
- Afrotopia
- Alternate universes
- Aztlán
- Bachata
- Borders
- Boricua
- Brown is the new white
- Commodities
- Cono Sur
- cumbia
- event promo
- Frequencies
- Friday YouTubery
- Global South
- Hip Hop
- Icons
- Islands
- Justice & Change
- Latino Secret Histories
- Lucha Libre
- Mainlands
- Marks
- Memory
- Merengue
- Mouthing off
- Moves
- mujeres
- My 'Ritin and Radio
- politik
- Punk
- Quisqueya/Haiti
- Reggaetón
- review
- salsa
- Scenes
- Sci-fi
- Sights
- Sounds
- Squeezebox
- Tastes
- Tropics
- Urbanisms
- vallenato
- wayback machine
- Words
Heavy rotation
Trans Europe Express
Señor Coconut y su Conjunto: El Baile Alemán
Anything can be cumbia-fied, even this cover of the Kraftwerk classic.Break Tocaima
Monareta: Picotero
Amazonically and beat-wise, Bogotá and Brazil aren't so far from each other after all.Aberinkula
The Mars Volta: The Bedlam in Goliath
A little overstimulation can sometimes be good. Every time I heard the screaming it shocks me but gets under my skin.
Subway reading
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
So many friends raved about this. But I realized I get impatient with gothics. Must be the obligatory genteel reticence of it all.Ed Park: Personal Days: A Novel
A comedy of social manners for the cubicle age. Nicely plotted even when it dips into the absurd. But I could'a done without the tour-de-force punctuation-less email that ties all loose ends.Hanif Kureishi: Something to Tell You: A Novel
A bittersweet sequel of sorts to Buddha of Suburbia and Beautiful Launderette: What happened to all of us old brown punks now that we're middle aged.