We’re heading out of the office today for the conference our office produces - THE LATIN ALTERNATIVE MUSIC CONFERENCE.  Check out the website for the full schedule.  One of our artists, Monareta, will be performing on July 8th @ The Mercury Lounge.  Check out this awesome pic during one of their energetic live shows!

Roskilde Festival is the largest North European culture and music festival and has existed since 1971. We are a non-profit organisation consisting of about 25 full-time employees and thousands of volunteers. Each year, The Roskilde Festival Charity Society, which is the association behind Roskilde Festival, ensures that the profits from the festival are donated directly to humanitarian and cultural purposes.
Bomba Estereo - CLICK HERE TO SEE THEIR SCHEDULE.
Zizek Club - CLICK HERE TO SEE THEIR SCHEDULE.

Nortec Collective Presents ‘Bostich + Fussible’ - rock the end of VIVE LATINO festival!  And the crowd goes wild! ‘Tijuana Sound Machine’ is out now [and Grammy-nominated!] - if you want to hear the songs!

Jenny in our office went to Vive Latino in Mexico City this past weekend [since Nortec Collective's Bostich+Fussible closed out the festival - more footage to come!]  Office favorite, Fidel [whose album 'CRUCIAL CUTS' is out now on Nacional Records!] - rocked it International Love style!  Irie!

Cool article about the Buenos Aires scene in Pagina 12. CLICK HERE.

La electrónica no murió, amiguitos, aunque a algunos les llegó la hora de desenchufar las bandejas y buscarse un laburo honesto. Mientras el mainstream del bit aburre con las mismas recetas de siempre, artistas como Le Microkosmos, Julián Aznar, DJs Pareja, Jerónimo Escajal, Poncho, Mugre, Intima o los agrupados en el colectivo Zizek sorprenden a locales y extranjeros con propuestas que son como un soplo de aire fresco.

Even the physical setting itself is near-dizzying. The entire facility is festooned, floor to ceiling, with an eye-popping cumulative mosaic of folk-pop reinterpretations of Mexican and South American imagery, framed discos platino, a blizzard of posters, album art, photos, collages, recurrent themes of skulls and guitars, punctuated with sporadic blasts of Elvis Presley iconography. While Nacional specializes in Spanish-speaking artists, the prevailing philosophical modus operandi is anchored by two inviolate, universal golden rules. “I want to maintain the rock & roll attitude,” Cookman explains. “And it is very important that you don’t fuck anyone over along the way.”  CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE PIECE!

DJ Bitman is featured in this video about Chilean nightlife - check it out.  Banging beatsssss!  Looking forward to some new stuff from DJ Bitman in the fall…but in the meantime, if you haven’t checked out his most recent, ‘Latin Bitman’ - you’re missing out!  Listen to some tracks here: http://www.myspace.com/latinbitman. Out now at your local record store, iTunes [only $5.99], eMusic, and Amazon.com.