Bad Bunny residency prep, new guitar tracks and Latin genre benders

Alt.Latino

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4.5 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Before Ana heads off to see Bad Bunny's unprecedented residency in Puerto Rico, we chat a little about why the celebration is significant to the island and Latin music in general.

We also dig deep into new releases that include four different approaches to the guitar and a musician from Peru who defies genre to create his own musical language.

Music heard in this episode:

• Hermanos Gutiérrez, "Elegantly Wasted (ft. Leon Bridges)"
• Bebo Dumont, "Hoy"
• Eljuri, "Karma"
• Yamil Quiere Ser Artista & Oliver Berg, "Bandido," "Gatito Miau Miau Miau"
• Yasser Tejeda, "Una Cascada de Miel"
• Yerai Cortés, "Sonar por Bulerías,"
• Judeline & Yerai Cortés, "Un puente por la Bahía, la Cruz del Campo"

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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0:00.0	From NPR Music, this is Alt Latino.
0:05.8	I'm Felix Contreras.
0:07.5	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer.
0:09.0	Let the Chiseme begin.
0:10.2	Felix.
0:14.2	Yes.
0:15.2	I'm going to Puerto Rico.
0:16.8	Okay, that's what I was going to say.
0:18.3	I'm in Washington.
0:19.3	You're in New York. You're about to go to Puerto Rico. Okay, tell us. What are you doing?
0:24.6	I think this deserves a drum roll, Felix, honestly. I'm that level of excited.
0:28.9	I know, I know. Okay, drum roll.
0:32.7	I'm going to see Bad Bunny because I have to. I'm going to see Bad Bunny. He's playing a 30 show residency, 30 shows, Felix, on the island all summer long. He just kicked it off. And I'm going to be at one of the earlier shows, one of the Puerto Rico only shows, which is also very exciting. And I've been seeing a lot of stuff about it. I've actually trying to avoid it a little bit, Felix, to get my own...
0:55.0	I don't want to spoil it for myself.
0:56.7	But I'm very, very excited to see what he's doing.
0:58.9	It is turned into a cultural event.
1:02.0	Definitely.
1:02.6	Certainly a history-making event for the island.
1:05.3	It's a cultural event in economic event, a political event even.
1:10.7	I mean, there's just a lot of things that I'm really interested to understand how they're
1:16.6	working.
1:17.2	Is it supporting local economy, supporting local cultural initiatives, disrupting those things?
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