Días Raros: Diamante Eléctrico’s tasty little surprise with Billy F. Gibbons
Double Latin Grammy winner Diamante Eléctrico is out today with yet another surprise, an EP/download with four remixes of “Días Raros”, a song they originally recorded with ZZ Top guitarist Billy F. Gibbons. The remixes feature the Mexican Institute of Sound, Ulises Lozano of Kinky Frente Cumbiero and Hotmode vs Andee Zeta. This EP may or may not be a teaser of the band’s next album rumored for release later this year, but...
Uniquely Reckless. Eric Zayne’s latest single and video
The word “unique” is thrown around a lot these days. Every artist wants to be “unique”. Every promoter gushes how “unique” a band is. Every festival is creatively “unique”. So, before I sat down to write about Eric Zayne’s new single and video, Reckless, I looked at the word “unique” because, as I have gotten to know him, that word keeps popping up. Eric was born in Montreal in a South Indian family. They moved to the Indian...
Bunny by Halo Circus: a warrior’s anthem with a poet’s heart, and all American.
Bunny by Halo Circus may be the most important record of the year, and perhaps the decade. I don’t say that easily. I say it because Bunny by Halo Circus is not only a musical triumph, but it uniquely exemplifies and transcends the demographic and cultural change overtaking the United States, the emergence of a new American Latino generation. This change is a revolution of Millennials and Allison Iraheta and her band Halo Circus is...
Athena lets the sunshine in for her first US album
Inspired, transformative, flawless talent. If you were fortunate enough to be at one of Athena’s performances in Hollywood over the past year where she road-tested the songs for her first US-produced EP, Ready for the Sun, Part 1, cherish those memories because it will be a blockbuster and you were a witness to history. One of the finest female voices on the planet and clearly one of the best songwriters, Athena lights up your ears...
Irene Diaz premieres “This Cannot Be”: a new standard for songs from our most desired and dangerous emotion.
The line stretched out long before 7:30 pm, starting at the locked door of a non-descriptive office building on a ready-to-gentrify section of South Broadway in Los Angeles. They came from all over the sprawling city and far beyond: downtown, EastLos, Mt. Washington, the Valley, Hollywood, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Boyle Heights, Pacific Palisades, Koreatown, Orange Country, Long Beach. One woman drove the 130-mile round trip from...
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