The eleventh annual Latin Alternative Music Conference returns to New York City starting July 6 for five days of shows and panels dedicated to Spanish-language alternative music. Performers include Manu Chao, Calle 13, Cafe Tacvba, Pitbull, Ivy Queen, Coheed and Cambria, Yerba Buena, Nortec Collective and several more. There are free shows at Central Park, Prospect Park and paid showcases at venues across the city. Panels include licensing Latin music for TV, film and games, digital marketing and the increase of Spanish-language bands on the touring circuit. Check out interviews with LAMC alumni and [...]

Filed under: Around the World Miami music? Anyone who watches TV knows that: burbling salsa-funk like what's been accompanying TV's Dexter as he weeds out the local population. And then there was Jan Hammer's electrofunk pulsing while be-stubbled Crockett and Stubbs chase drug dealers in cigarette boats. Or whatever sounds match the orange glow from David Caruso's 'CSI' hair. And don't forget all those Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine videos from the '80s and '90s. If that's not your taste, there are always those techno beats blaring from the [...]
To celebrate the release of her solo debut, Cuculand [Get it at iTunes], CuCu Diamantes [MySpace] is performing Thursday, March 19th at New York's famed Bowery Ballroom and Radio Exile has a... [[Visit RadioExile.com for great news, interviews, reviews and more, all in the name of awesome (or something like that)!]]

Mariachi Brass ( feat Chet Baker ) - These Boots Are Made For Walkin' via Lil Mike's Last Known Thoughts & Random Revelations... DJ Shyboy - What Goes Around The World (Daft Punk vs Justin Timberlake) via PopBytes Yerba Buena - Guajira (I Love U 2 Much) via Motel de Moka Talking Heads – "Once in a Lifetime" [...]

Highly amusing write up from cannabisculture.com : The Mecca for beautiful people during the Summer of Love was San Francisco – where you had to be sure to wear flowers in your hair – and the city's most revered precinct was the Haight-Ashbury district, where flower power had first been fomented in the "happenings" chronicled by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. LSD provided the inspiration for free-form events at which rock groups performed lengthy improvisations before back-projections of swirling colors while the audience would loon around wildly, [...]