This week’s Music for the Weekend comes from singer/songwriter Florencia Ruiz, whose dreamy pop/rock is perfect for watching the world pass by.

Each week The Indy features a project from Ideame, a crowd funding platform which helps creators, be they inventors, artists, or designers, among others, to finance their projects. This week: Músicos sin Fronteras.

Peñas, in their various guises as rustic dance-halls, restaurants and musical workshops, took Buenos Aires by storm in in the 1950s, as communities from the rural provinces began to flock to the capital. Nostalgic for the traditions and slow-paced rhythms of country life, these communal gatherings served as cultural havens, introducing a city disposed to […]

The latest in our weekly music series, introducing the good, the bad and the ugly of Argentina’s music history, we bring you ‘Crimen’ by Gustavo Cerati, who celebrated his birthday yesterday.

This week we focus on the IdeaMe project La Belgranese, a group of 20 musicians who have spent more than a decade travelling around rural schools, prisons and psychiatric homes bringing live music to those who often do not hear it.

This week’s Music for the Weekend comes from Uruguayan born Hugo Fattoruso, whose bands El Trio Fattoruso, The Hot Blowers, Los Shakers, and Opa have entertained the Latin American music world for more than 50 years.

This week we focus on the IdeaMe project Karenautas Ensamble, a band that stands out for adding an eclectic and new character to a form of music that some younger people might find less accessible.

The latest in our weekly music series, this year we bring bilingual singer songwriter Kevin Johansen, born in the US to an Argentine mother and North American father, raised in both countries, he moved permanently to Buenos Aires in 2002 where he became a national music sensation.

Curiously titled ‘Fuck Folk’, the last Saturday of every month sees independent musicians gather together for a night of free-to-play, free-to-see music. Allendria Brunjes goes along to check it out.

In this week’s Music for the Weekend, Alex Glynn looks at Kumbia Queers: An all female group famous for starting the genre of tropi-punk.