Canceled US Music Festivals Threaten to Slow Momentum for Rising Latin Acts

Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy in the Bay Area and the Mariachi Heritage Foundation in Chicago are preserving and keeping traditional Mexican sounds alive through music programs and young musicians.The importance of cultural preservation, specifically sounds that aren't considered mainstream or don't get much radio airplay, is what motivated Eugene Rodriguez (founder of Los Cenzontles) and Cesar Maldonado (Mariachi Heritage Foundation) to launch their music programs."It was a way of

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorProducer and music supervisor Randall Poster has partnered with Loudon Wainwright III and big band leader/Prohibition-era scholar Vince Giordano for “I’d Rather Lead a Band,” a new project based around the Great American Songbook.Poster has provided music for over 100 films including “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Boyhood” and “Skyfall.” His earliest credits featured on 1995’s “Kids” directed by Larry Clark and “The Crossing Guard” directed by Sean Penn.Earlier this

Chace Crawford is grabbing a midday meal.

On Tuesday, the New York Post reported, Ghislaine Maxwell was denied bail due to being labeled as a “substantial” “flight risk” by the authorities. Reportedly, the alleged sex offender hid in a New Hampshire mansion for months following Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest and subsequent suicide.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThe Tomorrowland Around The World has revealed that pop star and American Idol judge Katy Perry will headline the digital music festival which takes place July 25-26.The two-day fest is a popular electronic dance music fest that began in 2005.

Snow tha Product's latest freestyle "On My Sh--" that she released yesterday (July 7) is the product of her latest experiment.She teased the video on her Instagram on Monday (July 6), writing, "process of making a song from scratch n shooting this myself in my livingroom (5,000 comments n ill drop this and the vlog about it)." More than 6,000 comments flooded the post about the untitled project at the time, prompting the Mexican American rapper to drop it.Sitting on a cube chair and occasionally

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterGKIDS has acquired the North American distribution rights to Studio Ghibli’s Earwig and the Witch, directed by Goro Miyazaki (From Up on Poppy Hill, Tales from Earthsea) and produced by studio co-founder Toshio Suzuki, with planning on the feature from his father and Oscar winner Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro).Based on the children’s novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle), Earwig and the Witch marks Studio

Sec. of State Mike Pompeo said that the U.S.

Kanye West announced that he's running for president, but he's already received plenty of support from his friends and loved ones.«We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future,» the «Wash Us in the Blood» rapper, 43, tweeted on the Fourth of July.

Rapper Kanye West is keen on expanding his current work load as he took to social media on early Sunday morning (IST) to reveal that he plans on running for the 2020 presidential elections in the United States. If being a rapper, producer, record label executive and fashion designer wasn't enough, Kanye took social media by storm as he revealed his presidential interests on America's Independence Day -- 4th of July.

They don’t call him “Iron” for nothing. Mike Tyson was spotted presumably working out with a steel cage at an LA beach this week. Yes, a steel cage. The former professional boxer, who turned 54 on June 30, bared his many tattoos and rock solid abs in a shirtless photo from the outdoor sweat session.

Mickey Madden, 41, was arrested on June 27 for alleged domestic violence. The bassist of Maroon 5 was arrested on a felony charge in Los Angeles, but was released from jail that same day after posting his $50,000 bail.