Matinee Is Hell has been praising Volga Beach for a while now, and now I'm jumping into the ring after they premiered "Broken" the other day. I'm a sucker for retro 80s synth... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]

Man, there's so much cool shit happening in Latin America right now. I remember there used to be a 3 year pop culture delay when I grew up in Colombia during the 80s. Now places like Bogota and Mexico City seem to be having all sorts of amazing concerts and festivals, the visual art scene is flourishing, and there's really cool bands surfacing from there. I recently landed on Volga Beach and found myself very please by the chill-waves...lol. Anyway, looks like Santiago Padilla from Mexico City is behind it all and happens to be a [...]