I spent the past weekend at Indio covering the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival with a team of writers, photographers from LA Weekly & OC Weekly. It made for great times and even greater stories.
Below are the three stories I wrote about the festival for LA Weekly:
The Slow Death of Coachella’s Local Vendor Economy
The Date Farmers’ Art Exposes the Economic Divide of Coachella
What’s It Going to Take to Bring More Latino Artists to Coachella?
I’ve done quite a bit of work for Remezcla since my return from Spain. I posted them in my Twitter feed. Here they are in one convenient location in case you missed them:
Listen: Neon Indian’s “Polish Girl”
Free Download: Pato Machete’s “Soy”
Free Download: Maluca & Party Squad’s “Lola (ging danga)”
Visionary Sounds Music Festival feat. Zuzuka Poderosa, Niña Dioz, Andrea Balency & More
Cansei de Ser Sexy’s new album: La Liberacion
My ‘fro and camera ventured into Old Town Pasadena for the annual Make Music festival. It reminded me of SXSW in Austin sans the Lone Stars.
Below are some of my favorite photos that I took. You can see them all at Remezcla.
Don’t forget to check out my cameo in the video below (a few seconds in the beginning and the last minute or two at the end):
Count Carla Morrison among the current crop of Mexican artists whose fame has exploded seemingly overnight. The singer/songwriter has won over millions of fans in her native Mexico and is slowly repeating that performance stateside.
The young starlet grew up in Tecate, Baja California (yes, that’s the city where THAT beer is brewed in) and studied in Mexico City and Phoenix, AZ where she performed with various musicians, most notably Babaluca.
Morrison (no relation to Jim) released her debut EP, Aprendiendo a Aprender (Learning to Learn), in 2009 and followed it up with Mientras Tú Dormías (While You Were Sleeping) the following year. She most recently wowed audiences at SXSW and at her album premiere show at Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s “Day of the Dead” festival.
“So what’s the big deal?,” you ask. At this point I must admit that any attempt at describing her music will fall flat despite the fact that she is armed with nothing but a guitar, an incredible voice and an enormous heart worn on both sleeves. Instead, I’ll let her music speak for itself.
Una Salida (An Escape) – acoustic version
Continue reading “Carla Morrison Sings for Every Broken Heart”
Afroxander (aka Iván Fernández) 