Spaghetti Cumbia poses for a portrait at Vasquez Rocks in northern LA County on March 26, 2022. The band created their own sub-genre by combining cumbia with western styles and rock and roll. This is ...

ATX’s Money Chicha, which features members of Grupo Fantasma and Brownout, two bands our readers should be familiar with, plays an update on the style known as Chicha. Named after a beverage made from ...

The Paladins were already combining country and early rock ‘n’ roll with blues and rockabilly while still attending high school. In the 1980s, you could find them playing around 200 shows per year, ...

This is part of a special series, Cumbia Across Latin America, a visual report across six countries developed over several years, covering the people, places and cultures that keep this music genre ...

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