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Welcome to LATINA’s weekly roundup of the best new music. This week’s list features the emergence of Dominican rapper J Noa and new music from Kali Uchis and Paopao. Also on the list: Marianangela’s beautiful song “Espacial,” The Change’s duet with Loui Santana, and Rebecca Black’s ode to heartbreak. Plus, Itzza Primera releases a breakthrough song and Gloria Groove drops an epic collaboration with Anitta and Valesca Popozuda. J Noa, […]

Way back in the old music download days music piracy ran rampant and the music industry freaked out as a result. This caused a lot of irrational moves, the most egregious being lawsuits against its own customers. Once streaming came along the business released a sigh of relief because those big bad pirates were finally held at bay. But not for long. A new study from France’s Centre National de Musique […]

On my latest podcast episode: Sync Songwriter’s Chris SD talks about what’s changed in sync licensing, how to know if your music is ready for placement, if you need to master your songs for sync, if you can record at home and get your music into TV and film, the biggest mistakes people that people make trying to get sync placements, and much more. Why “shallow catalog” is suddenly a […]

One of the main drivers for music business success is how long you’re willing to hang in there. It’s obviously a lot easier to struggle through times of no money when you’re in your twenties than when you get older and have a family to worry about, but some lifers put that aside and continue on anyway. It’s instructive to know the music career stage that you fit into though, […]

Welcome to LATINA’s weekly roundup of the best new music. This week’s list includes Shakira’s diss track about her ex Gerard Piqué, Jessie Reyez’s epic collaboration with Sam Smith and Koffee, and Kany García’s new video with Abel Pintos. Also on the list: Tini teams up with La Joaqui and Steve Aoki, María Becerra goes soulful in “Desafiando El Destino,” and Chesca drops a dreamy duet with Dalex. Plus, Matisse’s […]

To those familiar with the history of labor rights in the United States, Dolores Huerta needs no introduction. The legendary labor leader, famed for founding the United Farm Workers of America alongside Cesar Chavez in 1962 and coming up with the rallying cry “si se puede” (yes we can), had her work introduced to a wider audience by way of appearing in Gutsy, the new Apple TV+ docuseries based off […]

Just when you thought that trends in music couldn’t get any crazier with super-short song clips on TikTok and Reels, we see yet another that might be confusing to some artists, and threatening to others. Sped up versions of both new and classic hits is now a thing on Spotify, TikTok and YouTube, and even the chipmunk voices aren’t deterring its advocates. A playlist from Spotify called appropriately “sped up […]

On my latest podcast episode: Hall of Fame songwriter Holly Knight (Tina Turner, Pat Benatar, Aerosmith, Rod Stewart, Heart) talks about getting into songwriting, the secret to song demos, how to know when a song is well-written, her view on collaborations, and much more. A look why electric vehicles are helping to kill AM radio How Jazz chords are being used to alleviate nightmares, and it works! Listen to it […]

On my latest podcast episode: Music discovery platform HotDrop CEO Max Goldberg talks about the problems with music discovery on major music platforms, misconceptions about music on TikTok, how very short listens can still lead to recommendations to friends, the communal listening experience, and much more. Vinyl album sales hit an all-time record Big box stores getting back into the musical instrument business and local music stores are furious Listen […]