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Music for the Weekend: Los Campos Magnéticos

Music for the Weekend: Los Campos Magnéticos

This week we present Los Campos Magnéticos, a band formed out of admiration for New York indie-pop group ‘The Magnetic Fields’, who trade New York’s Lower East Side for Buenos Aires neighbourhood La Paternal.

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Music for the Weekend: Los Divididos

The second in our weekly music series, we bring you ‘Spaghetti del Rock’, voted best song of the 1990s by readers of Rolling Stone. Los Divididos, known as the ‘steamrollers of rock’, is a band every self-respecting expat should know of.

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Music for the Weekend: Los Fabulosos Cadillacs

This week’s Music for the Weekend comes from the eclectic Argentine band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. Megan Cassidy looks at the first band to win a Latin American music Grammy.

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Music for the Weekend: Los Natas

In this week’s Music for the Weekend, Hannah Flint profiles Argentina’s recently retired stoner rock group, Los Natas.

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Music for the Weekend: Los Redondos

Music for the Weekend: Los Redondos

This weekend, Michael Tanenbaum takes a look at one of Argentina’s most influential and fiercely independent rock bands, Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricotta, or ‘Los Redondos’ for short.

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Music for the Weekend: Mahatma Dandys

This week’s Music for the Weekend comes from the Mahatma Dandys, a joyful energetic group whose tropical sounding mix of rock and cumbia will have you dancing wherever you are.

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Music for the Weekend: Man Ray

This week’s Music for the Weekend video comes from cheery 90s pop band Man Ray, whose iconic upbeat songs still make for popular karaoke choices if you’re in the mood.

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Music for the Weekend: Manal

The latest in our weekly music series, introducing the good, the bad and the ugly of Argentina’s music history, we bring you ‘Jugo de Tomate’ by Manal, who formed exactly 44 years ago this week.

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Argentina Awaits Kings of Convenience

Argentina Awaits Kings of Convenience

With their intimate stripped down sound, Kings of Convenience continue to satisfy the theory that less is more. Kate Bowen catches up with Erlend Øye as the band arrive in Argentina for tonight’s show.

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Music for the Weekend: Massacre

Music for the Weekend: Massacre

With an impressive 12 albums, Massacre have dominated the punk and psychedelic rock side of Argentine music since 1987. This week’s Music for the Weekend comes a little heavier than usual…

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