This is possibly the greatest collection of Cuban music available. This 8 CD set tells the story of Egrem, (The Cuban government’s record lable) which was started in 1964 and is still going strong today. Thanks to Ry Cooder the studios and artists had an enormous spotlight shined on them a few years back [...]
August 23, 2007
Categories: Cuba . . Author: radiorebelde . Comments: 26 Comments
First off, I want to apologize for the lack of posts in the last 2 weeks. (I’ve been djing 5-6 nights a week these days) That’s why I’m going to make it up to you all… in a big way. I’ve just created a forum with the same theme of this blog. A forum to…post [...]
August 15, 2007
Categories: Cuba . . Author: radiorebelde . Comments: 6 Comments
Most of you have undoubtedly heard about Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez’s new film with director Leon Ichaso (Pinero) about the life of Hector Lavoe ‘El Cantante‘. While I’m not really into anything that the 2 singer/actors have done so far, I think they’ve finally found their calling in this one. You can’t go wrong [...]
August 1, 2007
Categories: DJ, P.R./NuYorican . . Author: radiorebelde . Comments: 2 Comments