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Nodal played a sold-out YouTube Theater on Dec. 3, with surprise guests like Gera MX and Akwid. By Lucas Villa At 22 years old, Christian Nodal has rewritten the rules of regional Mexican music, ...

Akwid, known for pioneering the banda-infused hip-hop movement, teams up with Uruguayan MC Santi Mostaffa for hard-hitting track "Whoa!" By Griselda Flores Senior Editor, Latin Mexican hip-hop duo ...

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BROTHERS Victor and Johnny Lopez were so young when they started stealing cars and taking joy rides that their little heads barely appeared over the dashboard. They weren’t even teenagers yet and had ...

As far as theme songs for sports teams go, few are worth remembering. "Okay Blue Jays"? Who'd download that? Well, the MLS is cooler than the MLB, fo' sure! In a bid to help boost soccer's ...

Two years ago, the Los Angeles-based urban rap duo Akwid became the first group to break big with a mixture of Mexican-flavored hip-hop in Spanish that was tagged urban regional. The group sold ...

The presence of several hundred musicians, composers, record executives, publishing company figureheads, members of the media, and surgically enhanced groupies in Miami for the 2005 Billboard Latin ...

Like many Mexicans who are thriving against the odds in the United States, Francisco Gomez cannot believe his good luck. Akwid, the rap duo featuring him and his older brother Sergio, was in the Top ...

Since it was established in 1998, the Grammy Awards category for Latin Rock Alternative Album of the Year has been a litmus test, deciding which of the genre’s hottest artists is ready to break into ...

Celia Cruz’s death last summer was not the only loss suffered by Latin music, especially its Tropical branch, in 2003. It followed, by mere days, the deaths of Francisco Repilado, a.k.a. Compay ...

At first, Sergio and Francisco Gomez don’t object to the idea of posing for photos on the streets of their old neighborhood, in the mixed black and Latino area near the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.