The photograph shows the hero of this tale, Roger Glenn, sometime in the late 1940s when he was five or six, learning to play ...

My co-editor Andy Cumming and I have given ourselves (under separate cover) the difficult task of coming up with 10 of the best albums of 2025. Fingers on buzzers, no conferring… Our resident ...

Lead singer and flute player with Austin’s Latin big-hitters, Superfónicos, Jaime Ospina’s solo debut, The Vessel, is one of my albums of the year. So I was delighted to catch up with him on Zoom on ...

Led by Bogotá-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Jacobo Polanía, Mente Orgánica returns with Pukllay, a new studio album released via Buenos Aires imprint Fértil Discos: one of the Southern Cone ...

Music has always been a language of movement. It moves, it changes, it blends into new sounds in new locales. We are in the era of one of the most thrilling musical revolutions in recent times. It is ...

Alejo Carpentier’s 1949 essay on lo real maravilloso argued that the Americas were already marvelous in their reality, not because of fantasy but because history itself felt improbable. This wasn’t ...

After releasing Alimento a Dor on vinyl earlier this year, which received a rave review here in the pages of ‘On the Margins’, KOMBI — the solo project of João Kombi (from the Brazilian experimental ...

Here’s one from left-field – and a positive delight it is, too. Recorded in Honolulu’s Island Sound Studios and captured live at the House Without A Key restaurant in Waikiki on this hybrid album, the ...

Greetings. This month I bring you a lot of head-rattling noise, from the outer fringes of baile funk to experimental avant-metal, but there’s also some beautiful acoustic singer-songwriting, eighties ...

Ladies and gentlemen, will you welcome please, from Los Angeles… LA LOM!

Time for a round-up of the outer edges of Brazil as we reach the middle of the year. This month there’s a selection of glitchy samba, twisted baile funk, Kosmische, and an amazing US/BR (kinda) rap ...

Latin American music in the last decade has swept the world with its infectious rhythms, beautiful lyrics, and melodies that one will not forget. Not only did these albums make the top charts but also ...