Latin Music

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Disco Shawn

Ozomatli Plays Four Nights at the Fillmore in Dec.

Recordings

Mexican Institute of Sound: the best of Latintronica

Getting a Brazilian

SOMA Samba

Take a trip down to Rio for a taste of Carnaval.

Cumbia Cumbia!

Take a trip down to Rio for a taste of Carnaval.

Kickin’ It

Take a trip down to Rio for a taste of Carnaval.

Sergio Mendes

Encanto (Concord)

Cumbia, My Lord, Cumbia

Encanto (Concord)

Tormenta Tropical and Bersa Discos bring Buenos Aires cumbia to the clubs

Encanto (Concord)

Cha Cha Cha: a melange of busboys, gofers, lime-squeezers, and journeymen

Encanto (Concord)

Bebel Gilberto

Momento (Six Degrees)

The Boys (and Girls) From Brazil

Diplo, Bonde do Role, and CSS bring on the funk

Rhythm Nation

The passionate beat and sultry scene of Mambo overcome a weak script

Fantastic Voyage

Get off your high horse and listen to some fine world music at "Putumayo: Latinas -- Women of Latin America"

Ozomatli

Street Signs

Hear This

The Man, the Myth, O Mito: João Gilberto makes a rare concert appearance this weekend

The Voodoo That She Do

Bobi Céspedes casts a Yoruban spell over Afro-Cuban jazz

Jun Miyake

Innocent Bossa in the Mirror (Tropical Music)

Women on Top

In Latin bands, it used to be that women were singers or nothing at all. Not anymore.

Moreno Veloso + 2

Music Typewriter (Hannibal)

Mambo Kings

West Coast Latin jazz

Caetano Veloso Singles

Rita Lee Hoje E O Primeiro Dia Do Resto Da Sua Vida Os Mutantes Technicolor (Philips)

House Of Tudor

Bebel Gilberto; Phantom Chords; Dadafest; Go-Nuts

Irony on the High Seas

Can Cesar Ascarrunz and Los Van Van, swimming in contradictions, turn the Cuban ideological ferment into the dance of the century?

Lingua Franca

Orixa's rock en español is a stew of global ideas. Just don't call it Latin music.

Beats International

Vivendo de Pão starts -- but doesn't stop -- with Brazilian grooves

Afro-Cuban All Stars

"Distinto, Diferente"

Nuevo Trendino

Charanga

Potaje

Charanga Flamenca

Review

Arto Lindsay's Prize

Reviews

Arto Lindsay's Prize

Night Crawler

Night Crawler's guide to Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Booze and Boogie

Lo Maximo

The mariachi-punk of Los Super Elegantes

The Book of Lists

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Roger Más

DJ Roger Más goes for the Latin flavor whether you're talking records or restaurants. The KALX DJ turned Mission turntable master lists off his favorite taco trucks unprompted, and he keeps the vinyl bilingual on both sides of the Bay. Every Saturday, you can ask for mucho Más at the Make-Out Room ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Beto

DJ Beto is the perfect subject for a DJ Q&A. He's a Latin Musicologist who digs through bug-filled crates in Central and South America in order to find the choice cuts from Costa Rica, Columbia, Cuba, and beyond. When Beto gets retro, he's feeling mambo jazz and classic salsa, and he's busy on a ... More >>

Santero summons orishas to the club scene

DJ Beto is the perfect subject for a DJ Q&A. He's a Latin Musicologist who digs through bug-filled crates in Central and South America in order to find the choice cuts from Costa Rica, Columbia, Cuba, and beyond. When Beto gets retro, he's feeling mambo jazz and classic salsa, and he's busy on a ... More >>

Céu

DJ Beto is the perfect subject for a DJ Q&A. He's a Latin Musicologist who digs through bug-filled crates in Central and South America in order to find the choice cuts from Costa Rica, Columbia, Cuba, and beyond. When Beto gets retro, he's feeling mambo jazz and classic salsa, and he's busy on a ... More >>

Arty Party This Weekend: Mexican Institute of Sound @ YBC

Napoleon Habeica​Yerba Buena snagged a great musical act for this Friday's opening of its new Wallworks exhibit: Mexican Institute of Sound. The band is the brainchild of DJ /producer/president of EMI Mexico Camilo Lara, who uses the moniker as an excuse to mix together traditional Latin music wit ... More >>

Quantic and His Combo Barbaro Play Tonight

He makes musical statements, too: Quantic​ Hey there Latin lovers! Er, make that Latin music lovers. If you like rhumba, meringue, salsa, son, cumbia, and other variants on the South-of-the-border theme, you might not want to miss the debut San Francisco appearance of Quantic and his Combo Barbaro ... More >>

Don’t Just Watch

He makes musical statements, too: Quantic​ Hey there Latin lovers! Er, make that Latin music lovers. If you like rhumba, meringue, salsa, son, cumbia, and other variants on the South-of-the-border theme, you might not want to miss the debut San Francisco appearance of Quantic and his Combo Barbaro ... More >>

El Presidente

He makes musical statements, too: Quantic​ Hey there Latin lovers! Er, make that Latin music lovers. If you like rhumba, meringue, salsa, son, cumbia, and other variants on the South-of-the-border theme, you might not want to miss the debut San Francisco appearance of Quantic and his Combo Barbaro ... More >>

Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos: Show Preview

He makes musical statements, too: Quantic​ Hey there Latin lovers! Er, make that Latin music lovers. If you like rhumba, meringue, salsa, son, cumbia, and other variants on the South-of-the-border theme, you might not want to miss the debut San Francisco appearance of Quantic and his Combo Barbaro ... More >>

DJ Sabo: Show Preview

He makes musical statements, too: Quantic​ Hey there Latin lovers! Er, make that Latin music lovers. If you like rhumba, meringue, salsa, son, cumbia, and other variants on the South-of-the-border theme, you might not want to miss the debut San Francisco appearance of Quantic and his Combo Barbaro ... More >>

Cuban Cowboys flavor Latin beats with punk power

He makes musical statements, too: Quantic​ Hey there Latin lovers! Er, make that Latin music lovers. If you like rhumba, meringue, salsa, son, cumbia, and other variants on the South-of-the-border theme, you might not want to miss the debut San Francisco appearance of Quantic and his Combo Barbaro ... More >>

Nadastrom on Whether Dutch House Is Dead, and Is Moombahton a Real Genre?

Blood for life. Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom. There's really no typical way to classify DJ/Producer/Comedy duo Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom, better known as Nadastrom, as anything but original. With music that makes you want to start a mosh pit yet salsa dance at the same time, their parties have ... More >>

Braza: Show Preview

Blood for life. Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom. There's really no typical way to classify DJ/Producer/Comedy duo Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom, better known as Nadastrom, as anything but original. With music that makes you want to start a mosh pit yet salsa dance at the same time, their parties have ... More >>