I'm Brian Hyen. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. Today we're going to take our final look at the best

music you didn't hear in 2023. And today I'm joined by Jalisa Lopez.

Thanks so much for taking time to do this.

We're going to talk about some of the best Spanish language music of 2023.

I don't care that we're deep into 2024.

It's still great music. it's only been a month there's

so much to talk about and I'm always so glad when we do these episodes

because there's so much great music some of which I missed. I really picked some like I

guess like the tiny album is a bigger one we can

obviously talk about bad bunny or girl gee it just feels like people probably would have

heard that already and some people get mad because it varies from sort of episode to episode depending on people's varies from sort of episode to episode,

depending on people's picks on how obscure it actually is.

It's going to be a little obscure.

Good.

And the other thing is, I would just remind the listener

that the you, and you haven't heard, you know, I really can't say whether you the

listener heard this is possible, we have heard all this, if that's the case

forgive me and you're very well versed but I personally always learned something and I think it's an important distinction you know

This is not a genre we're talking about here we're talking about many many genres that only happen to have one thing in common which was the language that the people are singing in but there's so many different kinds of music here this is not a genre to be very clear.

Exactly and I say that kind of before every conversation I have about this. I think I tried to pick stuff that was very wildly different because that was a lot of what I was listening to last year.

A lot of guitar on here, all sorts of different guitars, but a ton of guitar.

I think a lot of that is the influence of Mexican music, but there's also a lot of punk and rock bands and alternative sounds popping up and random little pockets of Latin America.

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