Sometimes reporters reach for that tongue-in-cheek phrase that they think listeners will understand, and it offends instead. On May 8, freelance reporter Banning Eyre reviewed the new album by a ...

Barbès and Cumbia Vortex will present CHICHA LIBRE in Brooklyn, marking the band’s only New York City performance of the season. The concert will take place May 30, 2026 at Baby’s All Right, with ...

Chicha Libre is a bona-fide phenomenon. Like what L.A.s own Very Be Careful has been doing with vallenato and cumbia, Chicha Libre is mining an awesome and particular sound that existed in a vacuum ...

Chicha Libre, North America's psychedelic cumbia pioneers will return with their first NYC show in 10 years on June 20th at Brooklyn venue Baby's All Right. Venezuelan band Los Crema Paraiso will join ...

The latest from the Brooklyn-based sextet Chicha Libre is the appropriately titled “Canibalismo,” the follow-up to its 2008 debut, “Sonido Amazonico.” On this sophomore release the group takes its cue ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Imagine hiking in the Peruvian Andes and finding a group of chicha musicians: ...

Olivier Conan was doing what he always does when he discovered Peruvian "Chicha" music while vacationing in South America a few years ago: He was looking for new music that might change his life. What ...

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