Johnny Rivera - Vivo Por Ti - May 8 For Puerto Rican salsa fans, Johnny Rivera's return after a hiatus comes as good news. Vivo Por Ti is his ninth ... Read More

Last night's Billboard Latin Music Awards big winner was Mariano Barba, with 4 awards, including 'Hot Latin Song of the Year' for "Aliado del Tiempo" (on the album by the ... Read More

You've seen the name 'Ozomatli' a lot on this site, because the Los Angeles based Latin fusion group is one that I really enjoy. Their latest album, Don't Mess With ... Read More

Tejano singer Jennifer Pena (Dicen Que El Tiempo) and Puerto Rican-born Obie Bermudez (Todo El Ano, Lo Que Trajo El Barco) just announced their engagement. They worked together as songwriters ... Read More

LATV is the nation's first bilingual music/entertainment network. It's been live in Los Angeles since 2001, and now the network is expanding to include many key cities with large hispanic ... Read More

If you've always been interested in sharing your experiences via My Space, but aren't comfortable doing it in English - well, then you're probably not reading this blog. But if ... Read More

When I sat down to watch Luis Vargas : Santo Domingo Blues, I was expecting a concert by one of the truly big names in bachata. But that's not what ... Read More

Thinking about the music of the Dominican Republic, there are a lot of names that come to mind: Johnny Ventura, Aventura, Luis Vargas, Andy Andy, Monchy & Alexandra..well, the list ... Read More

Monchy & Alexandra's Exitos Y Mas won this year's Premio Lo Nuestro Award for "Best Album", while their "No Es Una Novela" took home "Best Song". Listening to the vocal ... Read More

There's been a lot of advance press on La Llave De Mi Corazon, Dominican Juan Luis Guerra's new album and the first since 2004's Para Ti. That kind of build-up ... Read More

Celia Cruz appeared off-Broadway in Hommy, the Latin opera written by Larry Harlow and based on The Who's Tommy. Now, four years after we've lost the 'Queen of Salsa', her ... Read More

NG2 (squared) is the Puerto Rican duo of Norberto Velez and Gerardo Rivas. Their new CD Al Fin is even better than their debut album Comienzos with sterling vocals, crystal ... Read More

The Billboard Latin Music Conference takes place next week (April 23-26th) in Miami, FL. As always, the culmination of the conference is their annual awards show, honoring the artists who, ... Read More

Los Tigres del Norte have a big smash on their hands with their new CD Detalles y Emociones. They're no. 1 on the 'Regional Mexican' charts and no. 2 on ... Read More

It's Latin week on American Idol so I was glued to my TV waiting to see what musical choices the remaining eight contestants would make as they put some tropical ... Read More

Puerto Rican salsero Johnny Rivera's new album, Vivo Por Ti, is set to hit records stores on May 8th. If you've noticed that we haven't heard much from Rivera for ... Read More

Here are some of my picks for good albums releasing in April: Chayanne - Mi Tiempo - April 10 Chayanne's last album, Cautivo, was so good it will be interesting to ... Read More

Eduardo Davalos (El Babo), the MC of popular Mexican hip hop group Cartel de Santa, apparently shot and killed his fellow bandmember Ulises Nayit Buenrostro in Mexico City on April ... Read More

April is a big month for Chayanne. His new album Mi Tiempo is due in record stores April 10th and a week later he hits the road on a 2+ ... Read More

I always have a big queue of recordings that need reviewing, and I try to handle them, more or less, in the order that I get them. Here's an album ... Read More

'April showers bring May flowers' doesn't really work where I live. With no showers to speak of - so far, the driest year on record - April will probably bring ... Read More