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Rolling Stone •

Guitarricadelafuente Is Writing Folk Songs for the Future

Alvaro la Fuente’s year has been a whirlwind — a product of a budding, but frenetic musical career that has taken him across the world. Prior to releasing his first LP, La Cantera, which came out in May, the Spanish singer, who records under his stage name Guitarricadelafuente, was touring with only a handful of songs under his belt. Many of those tracks were acoustic-driven melodies dressed in La Fuente’s low-hum, classical drawl. But after realizing he wanted to make a full-length album, la Fu
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Trueno: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

From Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, Tiny Desk is celebrating Latinx Heritage Month with an "El Tiny" takeover, featuring Jessie Reyez, Susana Baca and more musicians from all corners of Latinidad.

With his roots in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires and arms outstretched to the rest of the world, Trueno is rewriting the playbook for Latin American hip-hop. Wearing a cap for the soccer team Boca Juniors and moving among the spaces of his childhood, the 20-year-old, premier Argentinian freestyler sh

Vita Chronicles I

For the most part, Tumblr forged itself as a personal digital journal, a platform we used to chronicle our tastes – whether inherent or borrowed – through images, songs, and New York Times article haikus we re-blogged. If we were lucky, an original post would garner many notes. Perhaps you received many inquiries, comments, or a lascivious message via the AMA that was fixed on your page. If Tumblr has become a kind of digital metonym for the aughts, it’s only because the platform became culturally obsolete. People stopped posting, almost freezing pages in time, .gifs of Sky Ferreira convulsing on the screen.