Alt.Latino: Bruce Springsteen, Louie TheSinger, more

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week Anamaria Sayre continues to scour her part of the internet for great new tracks that will impress Felix Contreras, while he continues to explore Latinos who sing country music.

Featured artists and songs:

• Alleh & Yorghaki, "me late"
• Alleh & Yorghaki, "capaz (merengueton)"
• Louie TheSinger, "Quicker Way To Jesus"
• pablopablo, "Dónde Estás!"
• Bruce Springsteen, "Adelita"
• Bruce Springsteen, "Sinaloa Cowboys"
• Belafonte Sensacional, "Llamas Rexio"
• Belafonte Sensacional, "Todavía DF"
• David Byrne and Brian Eno, "Mea Culpa"
• Juana (feat. ELENI), "La Paloma"

Credits

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Simon Rentner. Editorial support from Hazel Cills. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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0:00.0	You know what I actually did the other day?
0:01.6	What?
0:02.3	I texted someone that I know who works in music and I said,
0:06.6	Hey, I'm bored. Do you have any cheesmith you could tell me?
0:11.0	And she sent me like, I have audio messages.
0:15.0	Oh my God.
0:16.9	I was like, I should do this more often.
0:19.2	This is really entertaining.
0:20.5	Way better than Netflix. I don't want to know. Less I know the better. should do this more often. This is really entertaining. Way better than Netflix.
0:21.8	I don't want to know.
0:22.7	Less I know, the better.
0:23.9	I always have Cheesme, Felix.
0:29.5	Hey there, this is Felix Contreras.
0:31.6	And I'm Anna Maria Seyer.
0:33.3	Why don't you kick it off first?
0:35.5	Thank you, Felix.
0:36.8	So, Jorgaki and Ale, two pretty big, heavy-hitting kind of pop reggaeton artists,
0:43.0	released an album together.
0:45.1	They released it this last December, but this album is, to me, an album of Summer Bangers.
0:51.1	Without further ado, here for you, Felix, is the song that will be the soundtrack to my summer,
0:57.3	and it's called Melante, off of their album La Cida.
1:00.8	Damme Luce.
	...

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