Around the time that the musician Ceci Bastida started working on her album Every Thing Taken Away, she was also volunteering for the Young Center, a non-profit organization that champions the rights of unaccompanied immigrant children in the U.S. Once a week, Bastida would meet up with different kids in person and help them advocate for themselves. She worked with about five in total, including a girl from Central America and a teenage boy from Somalia.
Bastida, who grew up in Tijuana before moving to Los Angeles, has always...
Bastida, who grew up in Tijuana before moving to Los Angeles, has always...
- 12/11/2023
- by Julyssa Lopez
- Rollingstone.com
We’ve reinvented our Songs You Need to Know franchise as a weekly playlist of the best new music — featuring the week’s biggest new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week we’ve got the feverishly awaited return of Rihanna, as well as must-hear new songs from Jin of BTS, Sza, Chloe Bailey, and more. Check out the playlist below, or cue it up on Spotify.
Rihanna, “Lift Me Up” (youtube)
Jin, “The Astronaut” (youtube)
Chloe feat. Latto, “For the Night” (youtube)
Rauw Alejandro, “Dime QUIÉN?...
Rihanna, “Lift Me Up” (youtube)
Jin, “The Astronaut” (youtube)
Chloe feat. Latto, “For the Night” (youtube)
Rauw Alejandro, “Dime QUIÉN?...
- 10/28/2022
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Before there was punk, there were Los Saicos. Started by four guys in Lima, Peru, Los Saicos thrashed their way through local venues and cinema matinees in the 1960s, eventually flickering into obscurity almost as quickly as they’d arrived. But they left behind a roster of hits, including “Demolición,” a buzzing maelstrom of a song driven by the guttural screams of lead singer Erwin Flores, whose orders to smash a train station capture the lawlessness of these proto-punk pioneers. Around the same time in Michigan, a bunch of kids...
- 3/31/2022
- by Julyssa Lopez
- Rollingstone.com
Aloe Blacc and Vic Mensa have both contributed to a new benefit album, Defund the Sheriff, that’s part of a campaign to shift funding from police and incarceration in Los Angeles County toward other public services.
Mensa appears on much of the album, including the opening track, “Largest Jail System on Earth,” alongside Lauren Jauregui and Richie Reseda, and “The Caging of Los Angeles,” which boasts Reseda and Fitz and the Tantrums’ Noelle Scaggs. Blacc, meanwhile, contributed two songs: “Black is Beautiful,” under his Avery Blackman moniker, and “Shine Your Light,...
Mensa appears on much of the album, including the opening track, “Largest Jail System on Earth,” alongside Lauren Jauregui and Richie Reseda, and “The Caging of Los Angeles,” which boasts Reseda and Fitz and the Tantrums’ Noelle Scaggs. Blacc, meanwhile, contributed two songs: “Black is Beautiful,” under his Avery Blackman moniker, and “Shine Your Light,...
- 7/21/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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