Musical lessons for living in the moment and meat-inspired band names

Alt.Latino

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4.5 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week's mixture of jazz, trance-inducing beats, Mexican folk and gorgeous indie pop has something for everyone.

Featured artists and songs:

Paloma Morphy, "1 tipo nuevo"

Camila Meza, "Persistir"

Rusowsky, "Malibu"

Ines Velasco, "Todo Es Para Decir"

Pachmyan, "Hard to Part"

Las Chorizeras, "Blue Eyed Man"

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Simon Rentner. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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0:00.0	Ana, have you seen sinners? You got to see it.
0:02.5	This is like a reclamation of the blues on the part of a completely younger African-American generation.
0:11.5	Yeah.
0:12.1	Plus, it's a zombie movie and a vampire movie, which is not scary because if I sat through it, he would consider it.
0:19.3	I hate horror movies.
0:20.4	But you know what? Life is a horror show. I don't want to see more. It's hate horror movies. But you know what?
0:21.2	Life is a horror show.
0:22.3	I don't want to see more.
0:23.6	It's like horror light.
0:24.9	It's really about culture and life and all the things that we talk about on the show.
0:31.1	Like who has a right to sing what?
0:33.0	It has Michael B. Jordan in it?
0:34.8	Oh my God.
0:35.8	Done.
0:36.6	But it's also, again, like I said, so much about what we talk about on the show.
0:40.5	Who has a right to sing what?
0:42.6	Yeah, yeah, I get it. Michael B. Jordan's in it. That's really all I care of.
0:47.0	Okay. It's hard to not notice him, but that wasn't my focus on the film.
0:51.7	Let's just start the show, okay?
0:57.4	From NPR music, this is all Latino. I'm Felix Contreras.
1:02.9	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer. Let the chisemet begin. And the chisemet is that I guess we have some new music this week, feeling. All right. Kick it off. All right. This artist, I have actually brought
1:09.0	her up a number of times, so i don't know if you remember i do
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