Alt.Latino: What We Missed In 2025

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The sheer volume and variety of Spanish-language music released every year is breathtaking. Even those of us with our ears to the ground are bound to miss things. So, in this episode we travel back through the year to resurface some of the remarkable albums that somehow didn't make it on the show. Catch Afro-Caribbean jazz, a history-spanning classical strings project, the return of Juana Molina and much, much more.

Artists and albums featured in this episode:

- Alex Cuba, 'Índole'
- Enyel C, 'Nuevo Caribe'
- Berta Rojas, 'La Huella de las Cuerdas'
- Cazzu, 'Latinaje'
- Conrad Herwig, Eddie Palmieri and Luques Curtis, 'Reflections-Facing South'
- Juana Molina, 'DOGA'

This podcast episode was produced by Noah Caldwell. The executive producer of NPR Music is Suraya Mohamed.

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0:18.2	Felix.
0:19.2	Anna.
0:20.2	I miss you.
0:21.1	I haven't seen you in a week.
0:22.5	Where are you these days?
0:24.3	Oh, you know, the great city of Mexico.
0:27.8	That works, right?
0:28.9	Yeah.
0:30.1	It's always, you know, it's like I get here and then I hear 5,000 new things that I'm like,
0:34.3	wow, it's just, it's the city musically is like evolving every
0:38.7	point five seconds, truly.
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0:42.5	I will.
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0:49.4	From NPR music, this is all Latino.
0:51.5	I'm Felix Contreras.
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