Milo J is counting down the days until he drops his album 111. On Monday, the 16-year-old rap prodigy announced the track list for his upcoming LP, out Friday, which features the likes of Peso Pluma and Nicki Nicole. The Mexican corridos musician joins Milo on “Una Bala,” Nicole is …
Read More »Paulo Londra and Bizarrap Release Anticipated Session That Went Viral Before It Even Dropped
On Sunday, the Argentinean producer Bizarrap announced a collaboration fans had been eagerly awaiting: He shared that the latest guest on his popular YouTube “Bzrp Music Sessions” series would be the Argentinean artist Paulo Londra, who recently returned to the music scene after a two-year hiatus. “23 million comments and …
Read More »How Mon Laferte Unlocked a New Honesty in Her Songwriting
One day, while living in Los Angeles earlier this year, Mon Laferte jumped in her car, rolled down the windows, and began to drive through Malibu. She had the music turned all the way up and she felt, for the first time in a long time, brave and completely free. …
Read More »Bad Bunny and Tommy Torres on the Team-Up No One Saw Coming
Bad Bunny knows how to take people off-guard. His career has felt like a non-stop parade of unexpected releases, projects, and sonic experiments — but teaming up with Tommy Torres, a 49-year-old singer-songwriter and balladeer from Puerto Rico, and co-producing and co-writing El Playlist de Anoche, an album full of …
Read More »How Zoé Keep Their Musical Karma Evolving After 20 Years
“It’s something we have in our soul,” says León Larregui, the frontman of Mexico’s celebrated alt-rock band Zoé. “We’re telepathically connected, even from far away and without speaking.” That uncanny bond between Larregui and his bandmates — one he calls a “karmic sonic identity” — informed the band’s seventh album, …
Read More »Latin Music Needs a Black Lives Matter Movement
Gloria “Goyo” Martínez, leading lady of the Latin Grammy-winning hip-hop trio ChocQuibTown, originally planned to spend the summer promoting the group’s new album, ChocQuibHouse. Instead, the singer-songwriter, 38, has spent the last two months at her home in Bogotá, organizing an international alliance of artists and music industry workers called …
Read More »Premios Juventud: Inside America's First Live Awards Show in the Covid-19 Era
Nearly six months after the United States experienced its first outbreak of Covid-19, the virus shows no signs of slowing down. Since then, the entertainment industry as a whole has grappled with the question: How will live events, especially long-standing awards shows, survive the pandemic? While several major awards ceremonies …
Read More »Anuel AA Would Like to Reintroduce Himself in New 'Emmanuel' LP
One muggy, Friday afternoon in May, a trio of luxury yachts could be seen off the coast of Miami’s Normandy Isles, blasting Latin trap for dozens of passengers. Trailed by a few more revelers on jet skis, and an incoming Miami P.D. boat soon to pull them over, each yacht …
Read More »RS Latin Music Picks: Week of April 26th
Could your quarantine playlist use a little more seasoning? Rolling Stone Latin selects some of the best new music releases from Latin America, Spain and Portugal. Keep track of the latest in Latin via our playlist on Spotify. Paloma Mami, “Goteo” “[I’m] feeling like you need a Spanish mamí in …
Read More »Producers Tainy and Luny to Stage Historic Beat Battle on Instagram
Update: the full beat battle is now available to watch on YouTube. Over the course of the last month, stars have come up with all kinds of enterprising ways to keep their fans engaged during the rise of the government-mandated quarantine. So when Swizz BeatzandTimbaland faced off by comparing their …
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