In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, NPR Music is spotlighting a series of artists across Latin America who are engaging with their musical heritage in unique ways. From reworking conservative ...
Skater vibes, literally. Watch the Mexico City band perform its blend of garage, marimba and cumbia. For the second consecutive year, NPR teamed up with globalFEST in January 2021 for a thrilling ...
The marimba-forward folkloric cumbia of Son Rompe Pera’s 2020 debut album, Batuco, didn’t entirely prepare me for the Mexican quintet’s visceral, madcap live shows. The style of cumbia in which they ...
You definitely read that right- a band fronted by the three Gama brothers and their marimba, that fuses multi-hued Cumbia with punk in a way that on paper seems impossible but once you see them and ...
Los integrantes de Son Rompe Pera tienen muchos tatuajes en los brazos, se visten de negro y en el escenario interpretan con la potencia de una banda de rock tradicional, pero en su agrupación la ...
Southern California Marimba puts on salons where you can hear the couch-sized instrument in all its glory.
Tradition and modernity coexist peacefully within Son Rompe Pera, where punk collides with the cumbia the band grew up playing. In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, NPR Music is spotlighting a ...
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