Mexican alternative poprock band Zurdok was formed in 1994 after friends Jorge Saenz and David Izquierdo decided to create a new project named Movimiento Zurdok After moving to Mexico City and winning a local contest known as La Batalla de las Bandas…

Born in Colombia but raised in Manhattan singer and bass player Maya met Dominican-born multi-instrumentalist Nova in 2005 while working with producer Ivn Benavides and an instant musical connection was formed Calling themselves Pacha Massive Maya an…

Comprised of a small stable of producers who fuse traditional Mexican music with contemporary electronic music the Nortec Collective debuted in 2002 on Nacional Records and proceeded to garner a respectable following especially among critics Based pr…

The fertile Angeleno independent hip-hop scene populated by the likes of Beck and Sukia was crashed in 1998 by the two Mexicans from Monterrey who record as Plastilina Mosh Programmer Alejandro Rosso and vocalistguitarist Jonaz who have also been com…

The founding members of Aterciopelados, Andrea Echeverri and Hector Buitrago, originally teamed up in Bogota, Colombia, in 1990 as Delia Y Los Aminoacidos. Buitrago came from a hardcore rock background, heading a group called La Pesitilencia, while E…

Born of the party scene in their home-town of Caracas, Venezuela, and taking their name from a film series on Venezuelan history in which the narrator introduces himself with the words "Hello, my invisible friends", Latin dance band Los Amigos Invisi…

Mexican rockers Cafe Tacuba are generally regarded as being at the forefront of the Rock En Espanol movement, alongside Mana, Aterciopelados, et al. However, there's considerably less of the pan-Latin rhythmic sensibility (and a greater eclecticism) …

The majority of artists who were part of the Latin American music explosion of the early twenty-first century turned out to be crafted from the teeny bopper dance mould, but a few dug a bit deeper to create something off the beaten path, such as Kink…

One of the most gifted and accomplished -- and certainly one of the most respected -- artists in the Latin music sphere during the late 90s and into the next century Julieta Venegas enjoyed enormous acclaim during her run and though commercial succes…

Bay Area-based Orixa got involved in the California Latin rock scene in the early 90s Playing Latin ska hip-hop funk and reggae the bands self-titled debut album was recorded in 1996 after they signed to Aztln Records In addition Orixa participated i…

Alternative rock band formed in Pomona CA by Adrin and Victor Monroy Heriberto Gonzlez and Eric Rubalcaba Brothers Monroy started to get interested in Latin rock in the mid-80s listening to the most popular bands at that time Their first act was call…