L.A. Weekly and Champion City's monthly mixtape series returns, with new tracks from Melvins, Moses Sumney, Gaby Hernandez and more, mixed by DJ Francesca Harding....
It’s been over two years since the disappearance of 43 Mexican college students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, a teachers' college in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The students were en route by bus to a demonstration when they were abducted by police, never to be seen again. The families......
Wear Patterns is the production team consisting of brothers Gene and James Bautista, better known as the Beat Ventriloquists, and DJ Francesca Harding. The three of them are open-format DJs — meaning they play all types of music — and collectively have spent thousands of hours rocking dance floors. Open-format DJs......
Siblings Martha, Claudia and Gabriel Gonzalez form one of the most important musical families in Los Angeles, preserving the roots and spirit of Mexican culture. As children of immigrants and lifelong champions of East L.A., they’ve come together to tell the story of their family for one night only through......
How did a Colombian, French-influenced, gypsy jazz band by the name of Monsieur Periné become one of the most exciting emerging artists in Latin music? At one point, even people in Colombia didn't think they were from there. Lead singer Catalina García was born and raised in Cali, Colombia on......
Tropical house artist Nathan Hayes, 33, known as Jamie Prado, is somewhere in the hills of Bogotá, Colombia. A mega thunderstorm just swept through the city. Sideways rain is shaking the building and cutting our Skype interview in and out. But this is exactly where he’s supposed to be. This......
We’re in Echo Park sitting at a restaurant patio with musician Angelica-Marie Lopez, 28, known as Low Leaf. She’s distracted as we're facing Sunset Boulevard, watching cars and people go by. I ask about her music, which she describes as experimental, soul and freeform, but there's a greater message Lopez......