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Alt.Latino's Best New Music Round-Up: Bad Bunny, Grupo Frontera, Becky G and more

Alt.Latino

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4.5673 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite music from the last few months, kicking things off with a surprising collab from Bad Bunny and regional Mexican group Grupo Frontera. Plus, new music from Becky G, Gaby Moreno, Esteman and more.

This episode of 'Alt.Latino' was produced by Robin Hilton. Our editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our production assistants are Jerusalem Truth and Sofia Seidel and our intern is Pilar Galván. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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0:00.0

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0:11.4

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0:17.4

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0:22.2

available wherever you get your podcasts. From NPR music, this is Alt Latino. I'm Felix Contreras.

0:27.5

And I'm Anna Maria Sayer. Let the Chisemé begin. and this week the Chees-Meet was all about new music

0:42.8

and that's what we're doing this week.

0:44.7

Anna brought in some tracks, I brought in some tracks,

0:47.4

and we're going to share some new music.

0:49.0

But first we're going to talk about something that we both agreed on,

0:51.7

and that is a new track from Bad Bunny.

0:53.8

No, no, me has to read it. about something that we both agreed on and that is a new track from Bad Buddy.

0:55.0

Yeah, nothing makes me to read

0:58.0

only when I see the photos and the videos that I've got to Felix, you know, I always take any

1:23.6

I always take any excuse to talk about Bad Bunny, but he did something that is worth talking about. I don't know

1:29.5

if any of us saw this coming. I don't think anyone saw or heard it coming, dipping his toes into

1:35.4

the amazing Mexican regional scene that's popping up all over the place right now.

1:40.2

He released a track with massive regional group, Group of Frontera.

1:44.6

The track is called Un Porcento.

1:47.2

And, okay, I know I just said we didn't see it coming, but Felix, I feel like we did kind of see it coming.

1:53.9

I mean, we actually did do a show on this, what was it, two years ago, talking about the rise of what was at the time the sleeping giant of

2:03.4

regional Mexican. And it's only gathered steam since then and now it's just popping. It's on fire,

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