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  Rockin' The Volcano/Robert Greening
The mist cleared, light rain fell, rock music hummed in the distance as the indigenous houses and the two giant concert stages came into view and the incredible idea of rock in a volcanic paradise became a reality.
The popular soft acoustic rock is a move away from the style of the previous albums which explored Latin rhythms.
Argentinean Babasonicos shook the crater with a blend of rock, funk and hip-hop, enrapturing the crowd to mosh in a mad, trancey and intense set.
www.planeta.com /planeta/99/0599erock.html   (2180 words)

  
 B.A.R.T.S.
Argentinean's prefered music, as all the rest depends on the kind of people and tastes, same as in europe or the USA, some likes the more RandB and some others the 80's hits (Phill Collins, etc).
Argentinean rock, has been very important during the 80's, in response to malvinas (falklands) war against UK, argentineans stopped importing UK hits and found local rock was possible.
It is very true that in the wake of the Falkland/Malvinas argentine rock became massive both at home and througout Latin America (igniting scenes in Chile, Spain, Colombia, Peru, and reviving the decayed Mexican scene from the Avandoro Festival scandal in the 70s).
www.barts.com.ar /barts/music.php   (1006 words)

  
 Bands - GP
Los Enanitos Verdes (which translates into Little Green Men) is a successful Argentinean rock group that formed in 1979.
The multi-platinum, alternative rock band is also currently touring throughout the United States and Canada promoting their latest album, “Louder Now.”
The band’s career has taken them on the 2004 Warped Tour, seen them play in British rock festivals at Reading and Leeds, given them the chance to co-headline a North American tour with Jimmy Eat World and given them an opening spot for two Green Day shows last year at Britain’s Milton Keynes National Bowl.
www.gazettes.com /bands04122007.html   (603 words)

  
 argentinean, latina, fruupp, cafe tacuba, jozlin bones, giuffria, meat loaf, roberto carlos, os mutantes, ribozyme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
argentinean, latina, fruupp, cafe tacuba, jozlin bones, giuffria, meat loaf, roberto carlos, os mutantes, ribozyme
After a short but fierce naval and air war, the british landed at san carlos water on may 21 and a land war followed until the argentinean forces surrendered on june 14.
Its difficult to put precise boundaries on la latina, because, like its immediate neighbors, streets are narrow and wind a lot.
www.latinax.info /Argentinean_rock   (109 words)

  
 MySA.com: Music
Two new Latin alternative albums run the gamut from introspective Mexican rock and eclectic pop to Colombian folk rhythms and electronica.
For Mexican rock singer Julieta Venegas, collaborating with Jorge Villamizar and Cachorro López on her new CD, "Limón y Sal," proved to be liberating.
"Primer Día," a faster rock and hip-hop tune, includes a rap segment by Dante Spinetta of the Argentinean rock/rap group Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas.
www.mysanantonio.com /entertainment/music/stories/MYSA121006.5J.burr.1978639.html   (892 words)

  
 Caifanes MP3 Downloads - Caifanes Music Downloads - Caifanes Music Videos
With its sizzling mix of ska, rock, hip-hop, and traditional Latin music, Café Tacuba is one of Mexico's hottest bands.
His sound is a fresh melodic rock with Spanish Lyrics, a pop sensibility and influenced by many musical genres.
Argentinean pop/rock band los Enanitos Verdes was formed in the late '70s by singer/bassist Marciano Cantero, guitarist Felipe Staiti, and drummer Daniel Piccolo.
www.mp3.com /artists/23777/similar.html   (581 words)

  
 argentina @ nite
Another good fact this year in the Argentinean rock scene, is that we got back on our feet a bit –economically-speaking -, at least enough for international bands to come down to play live again, something that was hard to accomplish in recent years, specially since the December 2001 “three-presidents in one week” disaster….
Cosquin Rock is all about the biggest names in Argentina's rock, as well as giving the smaller bands (like ours) a chance to break it and be seen by thousands of people who travel from all over the country for the fest weekend.
Argentinean summer fest "Cosquin Rock" at the summery city of Cosquin (province of Cordoba), is going ahead on its 3rd year on Feb 6-9 2003, featuring the best of both mainstream and alternative Argento rock bands, also featuring unsigned bands from all over the country opening each day.
www.coolgrrrls.com /pages/karina.html   (15489 words)

  
 Official Ticketmaster site. Gustavo Cerati tickets, concerts and tour dates
Argentine rock legend Gustavo Cerati is a towering figure in popular Latin music, for he was the frontman of Soda Stereo, the most influential rock en español band of the '80s and early '90s -- arguably of all time -- and he went on to mount a compelling solo career that only furthered his mystique....
Amor Amarillo (1994), co-produced by Bosio, was a refreshingly straightforward guitar rock album, a stark contrast to Dynamo; whereas that album had been willfully challenging and often overwrought in its pretensions, this one was easily enjoyable and calm in its outlook.
An intensely ambitious album incorporating guitar rock, electronica, orchestral arrangements, and even a slight conceptual bent in spots, Bocanada was a prodigious undertaking, albeit one that inevitably upset the more fickle segment of his Soda Stereo fan base, some of whom blamed his whimsy for the band's dissolution.
www.ticketmaster.com /artist/784720   (2513 words)

  
 :. celestecarballo.com .:
Celeste was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and she is the first woman to edit a Rock and Roll record that went gold soon after it was released.
Celeste doesn't comply with the stereotypes of what a "female star" should be at the time: her sincerity and the humble nature with which she handled the press and her public, soon are part of the trademark of her career.
She irradiates a love for life and a passion for her work that is hard to ignore egardless of the style of music she is playing.
www.celestecarballo.com /data/bio_eng.htm   (933 words)

  
 Charly García - Biography - AOL Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Charly García is one of the most talented and influential figures of Argentine and Latin rock.
They only released three studio albums but it was enough to settle García as a key figure of the just-born rock scene.
Between 1978 and 1982, Charly García was part of Serú Girán, one of the key bands in whole Argentinean rock movement.
music.aol.com /artist/charly-garcia/31056/biography   (1155 words)

  
 Kissing Spell MP3 Downloads - Kissing Spell Music Downloads - Kissing Spell Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Argentinean rock band Almendra was formed in 1967 by ex-los Larkins and ex-Sbirros.
Argentinean folk-rock band Sui Generis was formed in the early '70s by singer, guitarist, and keyboardist Charly García and singer/instrumentalist Nito Mestre, who met while being high school students.
A popular Peruvian rock group in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Traffic Sound had a very British-influenced early progressive rock sound along the lines of Traffic and (more distantly) Jethro Tull.
www.mp3.com /artist/kissing-spell/similar   (506 words)

  
 World Music Central - Your connection to World Music
Like their peers in the rest of the world, many young Cubans listen to rock, hip-hop, grunge, pop and other genres.
Argentinean rock artists such as Charly García and Fito Paez are well known there and have influenced many Cuban rock musicians.
He is fundamentally a pop singer with some rock infleunces.
www.worldmusiccentral.org /artists/artist_page.php?id=778   (694 words)

  
 Andrés Calamaro - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
In 1981 he incorporated to one of the main bands of the Argentinean '80s rock..
In 1981 he incorporated to one of the main bands of the Argentinean '80s rock scene: Los Abuelos de la Nada.
Although the band was leaded by the brilliant Miguel Abuelo, Calamaro composed most of the band's hits, like "Mil Horas," "Así es el calor," "Sin gamulán" y "Costumbres Argentinas." In 1984 he made his solo debut with Hotel Calamaro.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,592728,00.html   (715 words)

  
 Top Latin Rock Artists, Albums, Tracks and Videos on Rhapsody
The term Latin Rock is interchangable with rock en Espanol, or Rock in Spanish.
With varying levels of Latin rhythmic accents in their music, Latin Rock bands like Mexico City's Caifanes have experienced great success in Latin America while receiving only small doses of airplay in the U.S., due mainly to the unwillingness of the major labels' non-Latin divisions to sign and promote music with Spanish vocals.
This unconventional Mexican rock band is at the vanguard of Latin Rock.
www.rhapsody.com /latin/latinrock/more.html   (509 words)

  
 Small Stone Records Detroit, Michigan Rock n' Roll
Recorded in their hometown Buenos Aires' Abasto Studios with the aid of renowned indie rock producer Billy Anderson (Helios Creed, Red House Painters, etc.), the band's third full album, Corsario Negro, continues to distill their post-Kyuss stoner rock/doom metal with a wash of psychedelic sounds, space rock, blues infections, and jazzy noodlings.
Along with the little change in their name (the addition of LOS), the Argentinean masters of trippy heaviness, decided to experiment with their sound as well.
Yes, this is the new album from the Argentinean stoner-rock outfit formerly known as Natas; the unfairness of the music industry forced them to alter their name because of a hip-hop group going by the same moniker.
www.smallstone.com /album27.html   (1275 words)

  
 hEARd - Rockin’ The Volcano
In Ecuador, high in the Andes mountains, 52 International and National bands and intrepid festival goers made the spectacular 1.4 km descent into the misty 4000 year old dormant crater of the Pululahua volcano for a unique event in rock'n'roll history: A 4 day international music festival in a sacred, mystical and inaccessible geobotanical reserve.
Argentinean Babasónicos shook the crater with a blend of rock, funk and hip-hop, enrapturing the crowd to mosh in a mad, trancey and intense set.
A sensation of the event was the appearance of the highly respected Argentinean multi instrumentalist Pedro Aznar, 48, former bassist with Charly Garcia's Seru-Girán and with the Pat Metheny Group.
members.ozemail.com.au /~hmag/extart/volcano/index.html   (2243 words)

  
 Andres Calamaro - Music Downloads - Online
Bio: Andres Calamaro is one of the most popular Argentinean pop-rock songwriters.
In 1981 he incorporated to one of the main bands of the Argentinean '80s rock scene: Los Abuelos de la Nada.
Although the band was leaded by the brilliant Miguel Abuelo, Calamaro composed most of the band's hits, like "Mil Horas," "Así es el calor," "Sin gamulán" y "Costumbres Argentinas." In 1984 he made his solo debut with Hotel Calamaro.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/100/313/9/1003139.html   (574 words)

  
 World Music Central - Your connection to World Music
Like their peers in the rest of the world, many young Cubans listen to rock, hip-hop, grunge, pop and other genres.
Argentinean rock artists such as Charly García and Fito Paez are well known there and have influenced many Cuban rock musicians.
He is fundamentally a pop singer with some rock infleunces.
worldmusiccentral.org /artists/artist_page.php?id=778   (694 words)

  
 New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock MO-MY
The corralling of different styles diminishes the music's impact, but the mix of styles is pretty novel and while the writing may lack originality, it is engaging enough, and the band have both the skill and taste to navigate the extended instrumental work through the straits of tedium and contrivance without major scrapes.
They include dreamy, Floyd-style space rock with glittering synthscapes; a suitably jovial and idiomatic symphonic rock; and one manic, ever-building instrumental skimming the edge of dissonance with Emerson-like keyboard shredding and effects, fast and noisy space-rock rhythm guitar, sledgehammer drums and throbbing effects bass.
Along with getting a real Rock sound, the band, this time around, have brought in a lot more of Irish folk music, either original or a la original, being composed by the band members in full accordance to its canons, in their second "movement" in comparison with the Spirit of the Soup debut album.
www.gepr.net /mo.html   (14485 words)

  
 Indie911 :: Bletzung
Anormal, Peña’s sophomore album, is a pure rock n roll set which feeds on classic rock influences but with a clear grasp on melody.
The songs are an evolution in Pena’s songwriting in many ways: a harder edge, songs written in BOTH Spanish an English (5 songs in Spanish, 5 songs in English), and recorded with his touring band.
Bletzung’s self-titled debut album is a conceptual proposal that entwines 12 songs that narrate a process of existential conflicts and which originated in times of worldwide terrorism, war and fear.
www.indie911.com /directory/rock/bletzung   (443 words)

  
 Manal: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
Argentinean rock foursome Color Humano was formed in the early '70s after Almendra disbanded.
Argentinean los Gatos derived from Rosario's the Beatles-inspired band los Gatos Salvajes.
In September of 1968, the band released a single, including its songs "Tema de Pototo" and "El Mundo Entre las Manos." After issuing two more singles, the group started touring Argentina, recording a self-titled album in 1969 and a second one in 1970.
www.music.com /group/manal/1   (324 words)

  
 Worldwatch | TIME
Argentinean police arrested the owner of a nightclub in downtown Buenos Aires after a blaze killed at least 175 and injured more than 700.
Interior Minister Aníbal Fernández said that four of the disco's six doors had been wired shut, snaring the mostly young clubgoers in what he called "a mortal trap." Fernandez also warned that the death toll was likely to rise.
The Argentinean rock band Los Callejeros was playing when the fire broke out.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,901050110-1013217,00.html   (835 words)

  
 Reynols interview
Though stripped off their beloved conceptual basis, another interesting project is their collaboration with Daddy Antogna, ex drummer of Ave Rock and Orion's Beethoven: two powerful Argentinean rock groups of the seventies.
They usually instruct Miguel to start singing a popular tune, and after his initial impetus the ululating voice is joined by a flow of guitars and effects, finally becoming a magma of iridescent sound.
The problem is, most of the Argentinean bands want to be like their English counterparts.
www.furious.com /perfect/reynols.html   (2804 words)

  
 Sorted magAZine, Rockin' the Volcano - Pululahua '99 (Part 3)
Their debut album "Con El Corazón En La Mano" (With a Heart in the Hand) was released in 1993 and made them one of the most popular bands in Columbia.
Crazy, extrovert and flowery Argentinean singer-songwriter Fabiana Cantilo playing songs from her latest paranoid album "De Qué Se Ríen?" (What Are You Laughing At?), talked excitedly of her love for animals, the ecology and of the dreamlike sensation of playing an open-air concert in such spectacular surroundings.
Born in Buenos Aires, she began playing theatrical-rock 25 years ago before starting a long musical relationship with the Argentinean rock pioneer Charly Garcia, playing in a number of different bands during her career.
www.sortedmagazine.com /archive/magazine/features/pululahua3.htm   (815 words)

  
 Latin Alternative Rock News, Reviews and Interview
But singing in English is becoming less of a necessity for such artists who want to win over American audiences, as evidenced by the success of...
Iconos del rock de los años 80, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, quienes fueron liderados en sus inicios por Vicentico, realizará...
Caracas, Sep 27 (Prensa Latina) Argentinean musician Fito Paez will perform in Venezuela November 3, 5 and 6, as part of his tour "Nature Blood", the production managers confirmed Tuesday.
www.rockero.com /news/?p=37   (558 words)

  
 CD Baby: ALBERTO ROJO: Para mi sombra - from indiejournal
In 2002, Argentinean label Acqua Records released Para mi sombra, his second album, focusing on an Argentinean folkloric repertorie, produced by former Pat Metheny vocalist Pedro Aznar and with Argentinean rock idol Charly García as a musical guest.
This music draws you near, steals you away to a foreign land, a serenity, and leaves you with a gentle touch, a soft whisper that holds the promise of more to come.
Produced by former Pat Metheny vocalist, Pedro Aznar, and with Argentinean rock idol, Charly Garcia starring as a musical guest, Rojo bears a gorgeous album, carrying with it, an entire world of sights, sounds and smells.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/albertorojo/from/indiejournal   (795 words)

  
 BMI.com | BMI Honors Latin Rock Pioneer Gustavo Santaolalla
BMI presented Grammy award-winning Latin Rock producer, songwriter, performer and Surco Records President Gustavo Santaolalla with a BMI Crystal on Thursday, February 1, 2001.
The cocktail reception, held at the Rumba Room in Universal City Walk at Universal Studios in Los Angeles, included such VIP guests as Argentinean rock artist Erica Garcia and songwriter/producer K.C. Porter (Carlos Santana, Fabulosos Cadillacs).
Together, the two formed Surco Records and have been responsible for some of the most influential Latin Rock music to date, including Molotov, Cafe Tacuba, Caifanes, Maldita Vecindad, Divididos, Bersuit, La Vela Puerca, Puya, Arbol, El Otro Yo, Fiebre, Dracma and Juanes.
www.bmi.com /news/entry/232926   (422 words)

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