The first time someone invited me to a Pijama Piyama show, I initially rolled my eyes so hard I saw my own Karenness, thinking, ‘Not another cumbia band in La Phoenikera,’ as if we were saturated with them. I went, and they didn’t put me to sleep. Instead, I immersed myself in a saucy mix […]

The McDowell Music Festival is on this weekend and we’re ready to catch up some of its bands to see wuzzup wit dem live. We’ve heard most of them and we know some have new material out. Others, we’re clueless about. So here are some of the bands you will catch us watching this weekend […]

We’ve never listened to Los Esplifs live, and we can’t wait to check them out this Friday at Last Exit Live. However, we know about this project’s musicianship and the talented peeps who hone it. Most of them are serial musicians who promiscuously play in different local bands. So we sat down with Saúl Millan […]

Nico Paredes doesn’t care if people know who he is or what he does for a living; he doesn’t want fame, to be recognized on the street or to be praised. He doesn’t give a shit about the perks of being a DJ/promoter in La Phoenikera or that people appropriate his ideas and materialize them […]

How did we get so effin’ crazy to think we could pull this ish off, you may ask. Well, it started many years ago at house parties, jamming to tunes that local DJs weren’t even dreaming of playing at clubs. Then in the mid-2000’s local spinners and culture pushers made cumbia and Latin rhythms cool […]

Every desert has its poets, coyotes who see things through a different lens and have a compulsion with written words, and storytellers who survive under the most straining conditions. They are artists and culture pushers who continuously battle ignorance and sometimes an indifferent audience. Our city has many scribes, some hidden and reluctant to spill […]

My dream is set on a Sunday, it’s a warm sunny morning and I can’t sleep in because my cat decides to serenade the whole neighborhood demanding its brekkie. A few minutes after the kitty decides to go full blown boss-bitch on me, my alarm reminds me that it’s the glorious day Little Jesus and […]

Our list of unmissable acts for the McDowell Mountain Music Festival (aka M3F Fest) paid out like a bondsman on Thanksgiving. Most of the sets we set out to see delivered as expected and provided plenty of highlights. As in most concert experiences, the human element is key. After all, we go to concerts because […]

The McDowell Mountain Music Festival is kicking off and we’re super psyched about all the bands playing over the weekend. We’re also hoping to see all kinds of peeps having fun and Phoenikeando. Although we love the line up and some of the local bands playing at M3F, we would also like to see them […]

It’s Valentine’s Day, and as much as we would like, we can’t escape the flowers, chocolates, dinner reservations, and buying a whole bunch of sh*$t while retailers are moving on to milk the next holiday. It’s a perfect rainy day to be empiernados, though, and if you’re with someone or there’s someone you’re kicking it, […]

Dancing to the same tunes all the time must screw with your brain in some way. Seriously, that Top 40 or 100 loop never allowing you to venture to other sources of smashing hits must atrophiate it. The genre is not the issue so much as the frequency of the same songs, and the monotony […]

UNO! Play new music If I hear Suavemente by Elvis Crespo, Maná’s Oye Mi Amor or Soda Stereo’s Música Ligera one more time when I turn on the radio, I’m going to stop listening. Wait, I already did. Latin America and Latinx culture in the U.S. is vast and rich with great musicians. You have […]

November is here and with it a crap ton of events! Everyone wants to have events in La Phoenikera in November, everyone wants to come in November. Because there is so much going on, we put together a list of concerts and music acts we think you should check out. Some of these are international […]

You may have heard that there’s a huge music festival going down this weekend in La Phoenikera. The Lost Lake Festival is three-day event brought to our city by the producers of festivals like Tennessee’s Bonnaroo and San Francisco’s Outside Lands and it’s taking place at Steele Indian School Park. Pretty cool right? Though it’s […]

Juanga died almost a year ago, but Phoenikerxs don’t forget. That’s why Fernando Hernandez, a photographer and event promoter in this beautiful city of La Phoenikera, is throwing the second annual tribute to El Divo de Juarez titled “Amor Eterno, recordando a Juan Gabriel” and you won’t want to miss it. Here’s what’s gonna go […]

I first heard Metallica in 1985 when I got the vinyl of Kill ‘Em All in Mexico City, where I’m from. Its strong and irreverent sound only reaffirmed my love for metal and rock music. I’ve always been a rocker. It wasn’t until years later that I was able to listen to them live when, […]

For the last few years, the schedule has been set for us on Thanksgiving Day: help mom pick up the last-minute things she needs from the store, wait for the family to arrive, stuff our faces with pierna de puerco (no turkey at our house), mashed tatoes, veggies and tons of dessert; endure the inevitable […]

In many parts of the world, Mother’s Day falls in May. A lot of us actually celebrate it twice: Mother’s Day in our country and in Amurka. A few years ago, I learned the hard way to never dare not take flowers to my momma on May 10. I almost got the chancla. To commemorate […]

La Phoenikera has its own all-chic Latinx fusion band, which exists by destiny. The band comprises badass femmes from La Phoenikera, Los Angeles, Costa Rica, Venezuela, and Ciudad Juarez, and they’re called Las Chollas Peligrosas. You read right, Las Chollas Peligrosas, not Las Cholas Peligrosas. Although band member and self-proclaimed pun queen Tatiana Crespo say, […]

This weekend there’s a rock en español event in La Phoenikera that sounds like it’s going to be pretty awesome. We spoke with Osvaldo Franko, director and producer of FrekuenciAlterna, the organization that put together the event, so he could tell us what it’s about and also give us his opinion about La Phoenikera’s rock […]

We’re hella excited that our beloved Rita Indiana returns to the music scene with “El Castigador,” a politically charged jam that’s pure faya. We’d given up on the idea of her return as a musician and thought she’d continue to solely dedicate her time to writing, but dropping this new song brings us back to […]

What’s up with La Phoenikera not having awesome Spanish language bands transmitting new sounds, influences, and sensations? The music scene is way too nostalgic, and yesteryear seems repetitive. We understand nostalgia, we get it, it’s nice, but abusing it can cripple you. In La Phoenikera, we’re promiscuous with the sounds we let into our ears […]