Luego de dos álbumes bien recibidos por críticos y fans, MonteRosa vuelve con “Vivo En Tu Amor,” el cual ya está a la venta en CDBaby, iTunes y Amazon. El artista colombiano radicado en Miami nos habló desde su estudio sobre la grabación y producción del álbum, sobre las canciones, sobre planes futuros y de paso tocó una versión acústica de una de sus canciones en inglés titulada “Long Way Home.”

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PulsoBeat conversó con la banda puertorriqueña Almas Band durante su visita a Miami para promocionar su nuevo sencillo “Háblame De Ti.” Hablaron sobre sus comienzos como banda, sus influencias, su sonido, su próxima producción y, por supuesto, su nuevo sencillo y video musical “Háblame De Ti.”

¡No te olvides de visitar almasband.com para más información!

¡Pulso y Pa’ Lante!

Jiggy Drama, la nueva sensación del género urbano alternativo acaba de terminar su gira promocional por Estados Unidos. El artista de la isla de San Andrés, Colombia viajó toda la nación, de Los Ángeles a Nueva York, promocionando su álbum “Nerdside” en varios medios impresos, digitales, televisivos y radiales. A su paso por la ciudad de Miami, el liricista paró en Vanquish Studios, donde tuvimos la oportunidad de entrevistarlo acerca de “Nerdside” y su reciente lanzamiento en territorio estadounidense. Aquí se la dejamos. ¡Pulso y Pa’ Lante!

Esta no es la primera vez que Jiggy se entrevista con nosotros, ya que en diciembre de año pasado lo interceptamos en Colombia. Aquí pueden ver la entrevista pasada:

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¡Hace unos días PulsoBeat tuvo la oportunidad de entrevistar vía Skype a Adrián Salas, bajista de la aclamada banda venezolana Viniloversus!

Esta banda lleva 6 años en la escena musical de Venezuela, siendo reconocida por su presencia en vivo y la fuerza de sus canciones. La banda caraqueña fue nominada al Grammy Latino en el 2010 junto a Andrés Calamaro y Gustavo Cerati, compitiendo por el “Mejor Álbum Rock” con la producción “Si no nos mata”.

Aquí tienen un extracto de la entrevista. ¡Pulso y Pa’ Lante!

(PB: PulsoBeat)

(VV: Adrián Salas de Viniloversus)

PB: ¿Quién es Viniloversus?
VV: Viniloversus es una banda de rock de Caracas, Venezuela. Tocamos Rock & Roll y tenemos aproximadamente cinco o seis años en la movida nacional, dos discos, el primero que se llama “El día es hoy” y el segundo que se llama “Si no nos mata”. La banda está integrada por Rodrigo Gonsalves en la voz, Juan Víctor Belisario en uno de los bajos, Orlando Martínez AKA El Mangan en la bateria y yo, Adrián Salas en el otro bajo.

PB: ¿Cómo surge la idea de tener dos bajistas en la formación del grupo?
VV: Cuando formamos la banda, en un principio éramos Rodrigo y yo tocando en un proyecto acústico. Luego, al poco tiempo, entró Mangan en la batería y luego de tocar par de meses como un power trio decidimos que era momento de expandir y llegar a un sonido más especifico como banda. Hicimos varias pruebas con guitarristas y tecladistas y la verdad es que con todos encontramos que estábamos siendo la misma banda de Rock & Roll que siempre ha existido: dos guitarras, bajo, batería, cantante [...] Sin duda alguna, un bajo distorsionado en vivo en vez de una guitarra le da una fuerza y un peso grande a la banda.

PB: Háblame un poco sobre la creación de “Si no nos mata”.
VV: Hicimos “Si no nos mata” en el 2009 [...] Estuvimos en el estudio solamente un mes grabándolo. Salió de una manera muy natural porque es un disco muy rockanrolero, un disco que no fue preproducido con la intención de crear espacios ni armonías, sino que sencillamente fuese un disco de Rock & Roll con mucha fuerza…

PB: Háblame un poco de la nominación al Grammy Latino.
VV: El Mangan tiene una manera muy cómica de ver eso. El llegó a su casa, después de todo el viaje, vió a la mamá, le entregó la medalla y le dijo: “Mire, no me he graduado de universidad pero me nominaron al Grammy”. No es algo que buscamos, fue todo una gran sorpresa, especialmente siendo una banda de Rock & Roll de los bares de Caracas, no te esperarías nunca en la vida que la vayan a nominar a un Grammy Latino, y menos junto a los monstruos como Gustavo Cerati y Andrés Calamaro…

Pueden escuchar la entrevista completa aquí:
Entrevista con Viniloversus by Pulsobeat

Video de “Juega Bien tus Cartas”: http://pulsobeat.com/2011/06/03/videobeat-viernes-viniloversus-juega-bien-sus-cartas/

We recently sat down with Mike Walker, Executive Vice President for the Miami Heat Group for an interview. The American Airlines Arena (AAA) has provided Latin artists a monumental arena to perform in while helping the Latin American community come together in Miami.

The AAA opened in 2000 and Mr. Walker arrived in 2001. He is in charge of booking all of the performances and shows at the arena. Over the last 11 years, the arena has had in excess of 100 Latin shows and Gloria Estefan came in as the first Latin performer of many the building would soon host. The arena has hosted the Latin Grammys and MTV Music Awards and out of all the shows held here annually; about 35%-45% of them are Latin.

The AAA was built to replace the Miami Arena, which held all the major concerts in Miami as well as the Florida Panthers (1993-1998), Miami Heat (1988-1999), and the University of Miami Basketball team (1988-2003). Here is our Q & A we with Mr. Walker.

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¡Feliz viernes! Hoy les traemos una entrevista exclusiva con El Freaky Colectivo, “un colectivo audiovisual que reune DJs, artistas visuales y bailarines de cada género junto a lo mas selecto de la música afro-caribeña. El Freaky tiene Funk, House, Drum & Bass, Dub, Reggae, Cumbia, Souk, DanceHall, Hip Hop combinado con Folclor”. Este grupo de artistas de Bogotá, Colombia se presentó por primera vez en Miami y nosotros hablamos con ellos sobre el concepto, la música, lo audiovisual y mucho más. ¡Ojalá tengan un Freaky Friday y un fin de semana más Freaky todavía! ¡Pulso y Pa’ Lante!

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La ciudad de Cartagena de Indias es conocida mundialmente por su aspecto playero, haciéndola un destino turístico importante en Colombia y el Caribe. Pero la idea de Segunda Calle es mostrarle al publico la otra cara de la ciudad, lo que viven ellos como cartageneros diariamente, contrario a lo que los medios muestran y lo que la gente conoce. Segunda Calle lleva 6 años haciendo hip-hop con toques de musica colombiana, pero siempre manteniendo una neta esencia hip-hopera. Aquí los dejamos con la entrevista donde hablan más sobre su música, la producción del video de su nuevo sencillo y sobre sus próximas presentaciones, entre otras cosas. ¡Pulso y Pa’ Lante!

Pueden descargar el mixtape gratis aquí: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XHM2N89S

También pueden er el video del nuevo sencillo aquí:

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PulsoBeat entrevistó a Toy Selectah, un pionero en el género de “electro-cumbia”, con un sonido como ningún otro. Nos reunimos con Toy en Miami para hablar sobre su EP nuevo “Mex Machine” y su extensa experiencia como DJ y productor. Este talentoso artista continúa rompiendo esquemas con sus ritmos globales y para el…. los éxitos solo siguen creciendo. Pulso y Pa’ lante!

Interview & Pictures by: Don Bustamante

Location: San Francisco, California

Pulsobeat.com recently interviewed Chico Mann. An artist whose passion for music and its culture, has allowed him to revolutionize and create a style unlike any other.  Here’s a glimpse of what went on during the interview. Be ready because Chico Mann’s tour is on the move and coming to all of us very soon!

PulsoBeat (PB): Who is Chico Mann and how did the name develop:

ChicoMann (CM): Name comes from the movie “Wild Style”. It felt appropriate because as the first hip hop movie it included a lot of Latino influence, and I feel that Latinos are part of the genesis of hip hop. The redundancy of Chico and Mann can mean any man, and really worked on all these different levels, so I felt the name was perfect for me and what I represent.

PB: Hip hop has progressed so much, how do you think that has influenced everything you’ve done up until this time?

CM: I’ve loved hip-hop since I was a little kid, the whole culture, break dancing, the funk of the music, and I feel that musically I’m just channeling that little kid. As I got older I got into other kinds of music, and at some point i wasn’t really following hip-hop, but you know you cant escape it. I’ve been around it my whole life so it influences me in more ways than I know.

PB: You’re father was in the industry, why did he advise you to stay out of it and why did you choose otherwise?

CM: They’d been giving me music lessons since I was 7, and in the 70’s and 80’s the Latin music business was really corrupt, it was a dirty business so my father didn’t want me involved in that. I’ve met a lot of old timers who tell me now that my dad was too kind of a person to be in the business, its funny to hear that 25 years later.

I chose otherwise because I love music, my mother has been in songwriting and its all I’ve ever known, and once my dad died I found music as a vehicle to cope with growing up. By the time I became an adult it was the most familiar thing to me, put a melody to a feeling and express it. It’s a very natural thing.

PB: Why did you choose the sounds of 1970′s Afro-Beat, 1980′s Freestyle and Afro-Cuban music to incorporate into your style?

CM: It was a process of experimenting, and I got really involved in using drum machines, I was so deep into Afro-Beat that everything I heard I could turn into it. That’s where my head is, it is its own musical idiom so once you start speaking that language it just happens organically. After recording and making different tracks I could start hearing how freestyle is a natural extension of Latin influence. It’s all from the same tree so the thread is really easy to spy, once you see it, it becomes really obvious.

PB: Tell me about your first album, Manifesto I. Why you called it that and how it helped launch your career?

CM: It was the result of a bunch of recording experiments, the idea was to make an archival recording. I had no thought about how to present it live, but it got picked up by a Dutch label that wanted to release it, so I went with it. I called it Manifesto because I was just playing with sounds and I had this idea that I would start with this simple premise and I come from a song writing background so it really was about a spontaneous composition.
I use to agonize over song form lyrics and when I was able to abandon that I had all this freedom that I was never able to have before so I just threw it into these projects. The parameters were simple, but they had to come from Afro-Beat. I was having so much fun that before I knew it I had breezed through I don’t know how many tracks, and the vision that I had became more clear as I familiarized myself with freestyle and new avenues.

PB: Based on your tattoos and the artwork in your projects, how does the Mayan culture influence you in your life and in your music?

CM: My grandmother was from Guatemala, and in high school I became concerned with exploring my ancestral origin when I discovered that she was Mayan. I started exploring native religion and culture and got myself more familiarized with it. My roots in that land made me feel really connected to everything about it.
In college I began to feel the connection with my ancestors, and so the pyramid on the cover comes from integrating the ancient and the future, it’s a good representation that the ancient and the future are one.
The live show now incorporates a color scheme and vibe to suggest and attract forces, and I use those forces to deliver a message.

PB: What are some of the latest projects that you’re getting into? Musical or otherwise?

CM: I’ve been focusing on the live shows lately so I don’t really know, people send me tracks to write to and I haven’t really gotten to a lot of them. I’m doing collabo’s, which come out in June, so aside from that there’s the occasional AntiBalas gigs, but mainly focusing on Chico Mann.

PB: How do you feel social media has impacted you as an artist and where would you be today if you didn’t have that?

CM: You have to be in the digital domain, social media is great because you can interact with your fans. I try to stay connected with people.
The dark side is that familiarity breathes content. I don’t need everyone to know everything I’m doing, I try not to put personal things on there. I try to keep it positive, and bring positive light to the world through my music, so anything that isn’t in line with that I don’t really share.
People forget to filter what they say, and everything has an impact. As an artist people look to us for direction and inspiration, so you have to be aware of what you say. It’s a slippery slope, which has to be handled with a lot of care.

PB: Do you plan on touring in South America, specifically Colombia in the future?

CM: I would love to; it’s such a great music scene. Now that I’m doing this show it’ll be a lot easier to be presented with the opportunity. This year I really want to do all the intensive touring in the fall so in the winter I can finish the album I’m working on. My fingers are crossed for South America, maybe even Australia, Brazil, and Europe.

PB: What can people expect from this tour you are on now?

CM: I don’t know how to verbalize that… I can tell you from my perspective what I’m exploring, I have all this technology that allows me to play my music in ways that I didn’t even know I could. Combinations of musical ideas and motifs that I didn’t think went together, but throughout my songwriting they work. I’m trying to create a musical landscape.
I want people to let go of the day and just have an experience. In this age of digital media people don’t really buy music anymore but there’s a great demand for the performance, so I’m trying to create a musical experience that transcends. Its all exploration, I don’t always know where its going to go, but that’s the fun part about it.

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ChicoMann Interview by Pulsobeat

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Entrevistamos a Don Tetto en su visita a Miami, donde formaron parte del showcase de los premios Latin Billboards. Esta banda colombiana de rock nos cuenta como han crecido y superado los retos de ser una banda independiente, gracias a la Tettomania (sus fans) y su sonido versátil. ¿Sabías que dos de sus canciones están en el adictivo juego Rockband? ¡Ve que tienen que decir al respecto y conoce más sobre Don Tetto! ¡Pulso y Pa’ lante!