Who is LATENIGHTJIGGY? And Why Should You Already be a Fan?

Who is LATENIGHTJIGGY? And Why Should You Already be a Fan?

LATENIGHTJIGGY makes music that allows his listeners to straddle two cultures, much in the same way the Maryland-born rapper has done all his life. The artist was taught Spanish through osmosis, growing

Tigre Radar: Breaking Down Muerdo’s Experimental New Album

Tigre Radar: Breaking Down Muerdo’s Experimental New Album

Andalusian musician Muerdo says he’s always asked about the moniker under which he pens his eclectic melodies. “It’s just a name I like because it’s completely ambiguous,” he tells me over a Zoom call.

Tigre Radar: Rodrigo Gallardo’s Music is Meditation-Meets-Exploration

Tigre Radar: Rodrigo Gallardo’s Music is Meditation-Meets-Exploration

Rodrigo Gallardo says his strongest work comes out of meditating – just not in the way you might imagine. “I think music composition really comes from profound reflection,” he says. “In many ways

Tigre Radar: Awake the Sense’s With Spiritual Sounds by Uji

Tigre Radar: Awake the Sense’s With Spiritual Sounds by Uji

Uji embodies spiritual and cultural awakening. A solo project by former Lulacruza member Luis Maurette, Uji is the ultimate manifestation of the musician’s journey inward, a process that over the years has

Daniel Haaksman Gives a Voice to Global Cultures Through Man Recordings

Daniel Haaksman Gives a Voice to Global Cultures Through Man Recordings

Producer and DJ Daniel Haaksman came of age in the nascent club scene fueling Frankfurt’s transformation into a pulsing house music capital in the 1980s and 1990s. Before Berlin became the cultural hub it

Tigre Radar: Silvana Estrada’s Romantic Lyrics are Our New Love Language

Tigre Radar: Silvana Estrada’s Romantic Lyrics are Our New Love Language

Silvana Estrada’s heartbreaking rendition of CHVRCHES’ pop-driven track “Forever” proves that the artist has a talent for turning just about anything into a gut-wrenching anthem of lost love. Translating the lyrics into

Tigre Radar: Brazil’s Budding Mariana Froes

Tigre Radar: Brazil’s Budding Mariana Froes

It was hard to pin down an interview with Mariana Froes – the budding songstress whose runaway success on YouTube recently landed her a deal with the Brazilian label Taqueta – not because

Llorona Records and Cerrero are Amplifying Colombia’s Diverse Culture

Llorona Records and Cerrero are Amplifying Colombia’s Diverse Culture

Colombia’s Pacific coastline is a winding mass of jungle, hiding sprawling black sand beaches, wilderness, and communities of indigenous tribes and afro-descendant peoples lending an ancient and mystical appeal to this remote

What the Music Industry Jammed to During Quarantine

What the Music Industry Jammed to During Quarantine

Depending on where you were in the world, your life probably changed dramatically sometime around mid-March. A totally unprecedented health pandemic gripped the globe and held it temporarily in its place, spurring

Black Latin Artists to Listen to Right Now

Black Latin Artists to Listen to Right Now

Though white musicians have long dominated mainstream music in Latin America, these emerging Black Latin artists celebrate their heritage with innovative, infectious music. Emerging as role models for millions of Afro-Latinos all