Nic Pollock talks to Gustavo Giorgi about his latest project, UltraBrit, an Argentine music magazine aimed at local anglophiles.

Buenos Aires is an anomalous city that is fast-paced while also being laid-back. In the corners you can hear cumbia that gets your shoulders rolling and in the balcony milongas you hear the melancholy of tango. Amidst the confusion, an Argentine musician who plays a different kind of genre, jazz, is blossoming: Ligia Piro.

The gravelly tones of Peter Lopez drift softly over a melodic guitar riff while a swishing drum rhythm pats out the beat. This is the distinctive sound of Los Alamos, a band famous for creating ‘narcocountry’ and now the stars of a new documentary, ‘The Lost Alamo’.

For more than ten years, Tanghetto has been revolutionising the modern Argentine music scene. An electrotango group, Tanghetto fuses the old and the new to create a sound that is truly unique.

The 60s were a turbulent time for Argentina but from it came the band Los Beatniks, who helped to start a new genre that would become known as Argentine rock.

Almendra has come to be known as one of the most prolific Argentine rock bands of all time, a band that revolutionized the way people saw rock in the late-1960s, and a mode of cultural expression for music-hungry youth.

Grace Protopapas catches up with La Bomba de Tiempo’s only female member, María Bergamaschi, to talk about life in the percussion group and preconceptions about women playing the drums.

Since 2009, Bandalos Chinos has come to define the word “fusion.” They are in the process of recording and releasing their first album. But, because they lack the funds to produce the master disc and copies, they are reaching out for potential donations with IdeaMe.

From dreamers and bibliophiles to grunge rockers and artists, Buenos Aires is a thriving city of culture that offers something for everyone.

When Carlos Inzillo started the Jazzología concert series in 1984, he pressed play on a jazz scene that had been paused by the military dictatorship. Natalie Schachar finds it is still going strong 28 years later.