Alt.Latino: Joy and resistance, plus Felix shares some of his favorite playlists

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🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This week Ana and I share some of our long time favorites. While Ana leans into music discovery, I tend to bring more of the classics. In fact, I build playlists on a streaming service to mix music much like I did back in the era of the cassette tape. There is wide swath of music presented in the show this week. —Felix Contreras

• Maestro Espada, "La despedida," "Tres gotas de rocío," and Peretas del Tío Vicente"
• Lido Pimienta, "Ahora"
• X Alfonso, Eme Alfonso & Síntesis "Rezo a Changó"
• Simon Diaz, "Tonada De Luna Llena"
• Raúl Rodríguez, Chano Domínguez & Martirio, "En Esta Tarde Gris"
• Rita Payés & Silvia Pérez Cruz, "El Panadero"
• Maria José Llergo, "Aprendiendo a Volar"
• Amaia Miranda, "Canción para Amama"
• Ataquemos, "Vilo"
• incluso si nunca despiertas, "la lluvia no mata las flores"
• Malo, "Suavecito"
• Tommy James & The Shondells, "Crystal Blue Persuasion"
• Hugh Masekela, "Grazing In The Grass"
• War, "All Day Music"
• El Chicano, "Viva Tirado"

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Noah Caldwell. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed.

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0:17.3	From NPR music, this is Alt Latino.
0:19.2	I'm Felix Contreras.
0:20.1	And I'm Ana Maria Sayer.
0:21.9	Let the Chisement begin.
0:26.9	Felix, what do you have for me?
0:28.7	Okay, so this week we're going to feature music that we're listening to.
0:33.0	I know.
0:33.7	But that people, the audience don't know.
0:35.3	I already know, Felix.
0:37.5	I'm not talking to you.
0:39.3	You're not talking to me?
0:40.6	I'm talking to the people listening.
0:42.9	Stuff that's on our playlist, some on our Hot 100, whatever.
0:46.6	But before we do that, I want to talk a little bit about an experience I had this weekend.
0:52.0	The Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts here in Washington,
0:55.9	D.C. For the first time, they held this two-day Latin music festival that featured a bunch of the
1:01.0	artists that we play. In fact, almost all of them we've played on the show, or we've had them at
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