It’s that time again, as the annual Vibra Mi Tierra festival takes place May 5th and 6th at Medellin’s magnificent Botanical Gardens. Featuring live music, lots of great food and local hand-crafted beer, the event attracts crowds from all over to an extremely family-friendly environment. The list of artists scheduled to perform over the two [...]

The third edition of the Festival Centro will be held at the Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation in Bogota from Wednesday 18 to Sunday, January 22, 2012.  Like they’ve done for the past two year, the festival will showcase the diversity of music from Colombia, Latin America, and from around the world.
With international guests like Anita Tijoux, [...]

Jack Radio Colombia – Episode 95 by Jack Radio on Mixcloud

Jack Radio – The best new music from Colombia and around the world. This week with music from Pirañas as well as an interview with Luis Daniel Vega from Festina Lente Discos. Broadcast from the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia, this is Jack [...]

A few months ago we did a story on Medellin based hip hop group Crew Peligrosos and a few days ago they premiered their new video “Medayork” at the 2011 Shock music awards (Colombia’s music awards show). The song is about the similarity of young, hungry rappers from  New York who make bigger than life hip hop [...]

By Pamela Ospina. Photography: Picinic Fotografia

Crew Peligrosos take the stage as light and color fill the room. Heads bob to the beat and words roll off the tongue; the kids in the barrio watch every move and see what they long to become.
Hip hop is comprised of 4 basic elements: MCs (Rappers), Deejays, B-Boys/B-Girls, and [...]

With two bands, two fashion shows, an art gallery, a tango show, free chocolate, and two DJs we knew the “Do You Know Jack?” event was going to be big. In total over 800 people showed up for a fantastic launch party which went until 4am. If you missed this one we hope to see [...]

Medellin, Colombia stays fresh with Hip Hop where local breakdancing crews dedicate a Sunday afternoon to a B-boy competition in Barrio Milagrosa.

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