Following our previous look at Mexican traditional music we now focus our attention on the Latin Rock coming out of Mexico. Mexico being the largest Spanish speaking country in the world is also one of the 2 big scenes of Spanish/Latin Rock. Many bands from other smaller countries like Puerto Rico, or maybe Guatemala come…
Today we celebrate Canadian music present and past. The heyday’s of the Canadian rock industry were the early 70’s and currently the new indie wave have brought some good music back into the bars and venues of Canada. So here’s the Best of Canuck Rock that we discovered: The Old Stuff Neil Young– This…
In case you didn’t know the contribution of French musicians to modern music has been vast. Some groups might fly under the radar & others, well, you’ve heard of them, but maybe didn’t know they were French. The real surprise is that the success they have had singing in what is not their…
With the current success of the single Royal by the young Kiwi sensation Lorde you would think that this story was inspired by the songs success. But just before the release of the song my attention was drawn by another great song by a New Zealand band called Naked and Famous.Their song “Young Blood” a…
Following the previous post on Sweden’s 2nd Largest Export_Music that we discovered, we enjoyed it so much that we decided to provide more of the great music that comes out of Sweden. The Concretes– these guys have been around since the mid 90’s an 8 piece band that also features Victoria Bergman singing in one…
I was listening to our national radio station Triple J the other day when I heard the comment about what are the main exports Sweden gives to the world. Their largest export strangely enough for a neutral country is weapons. But also strangely enough Sweden’s 2nd largest export is music. Can you believe that?…
Cuba has a very rich musical history for a small country. One of the greats of Cuban music is Compay Segundo, a singer, music writer, and guitarist. We feauture Compay in our International Masters of Music because of his large repertoire of music he has performed and written. Born as Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz, Compay…