Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Tangerine Dream, Eastside Kings Fest, Magic Rockers of Texas, and more recommended shows

"...open the weekend with a Friday stand at Antone's Nightclub, while the meat of the festivities goes down Saturday..."

Sept. 8, 2023 Music Column by Raoul Hernandez

ACL Interview: Party-Making Cimafunk Details Influences, from James Brown to Chano Pozo

"Cuban music is a lot more than they think"

"...broadcasts in Cuba? Cimafunk: YouTube. AC: Ever watch ACL’s Buena Vista Social Club summit? CF: I started it, but..."

Oct. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A Long Activist Legacy Survives on the Eastside

Holding on to El Barrio

"...a fundraiser for MAYO in January 1973 at a nightclub in North Austin. As the night wound down, police..."

Nov. 20, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

An Accidental Cuban

Joan Moran’s up-to-the-minute page-turner exposes the dark and gritty side of Cuba with schemes full of treachery, double-dealing, and murder

"...with vintage automobiles and the sensuous rhythms of the Buena Vista Social Club as your soundtrack are in for..."

July 12, 2019 Arts Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Buena Vista Social Club Survivors Come to Austin

Omara Portuondo and Eliades Ochoa lead the new Cuban-American frontier

"...of itself. Not only was the collective, dubbed the Buena Vista Social Club, illegal – Cooder was fined $25,000..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Music Feature by María Núñez

10 Minutes With Ry Cooder

Journeyman guitarist yes, ethnomusicologist maybe

"...Rolling Stones to winning awards with Cuban supergroup the Buena Vista Social Club and recording in Africa with Ali..."

Sept. 17, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

WobeonFest Slinger: Vieux Farka Toure

Malian guitarist: “We are young, so [we] have to create new styles”

"...for the same label that brought the world the Buena Vista Social Club two years later. Vieux Farka Toure..."

Sept. 9, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Alejandro Escovedo – Not Slowing Down

Third annual Moody show on Saturday whips up a hurricane

"...Nancy. We would go see them [at the Continental Club Gallery’s free Monday night residency] as often as we..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Sarah Jarosz & Gary Clark Jr. Nominated for Grammys

Local youths step further out into the national spotlight

"...did make it to his opening slot for the Buena Vista Social Club at the Long Center in October,..."

Dec. 9, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

¡Pachanga Playback!

Rain or shine, Pachanga Fest played out all ‘corazon’

"...of East Austin teenagers playing impressive covers of the Buena Vista Social Club and Grupo Fantasma with rounds of..."

May 13, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Wobeon and Beyond

World music festival rings in a delirious local debut

"...I enjoyed the hot rod runoff from the Continental Club’s 12th annual street regalia, the Lonestar Rod & Kustom..."

April 8, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Skatalites

"...the decades, the Skatalites remain Jamaica's answer to the Buena Vista Social Club. New versions of "Song for my..."

March 15, 2013 Music Review by Dan Oko

Li’l Band O’ Gold

Li’l Q&A with LBOG’s C.C. Adcock

"...our native driver, guitarist C.C. Adcock, who took us nightclubbing with Steve Riley and Dave Egan to Dickie Landry’s..."

Dec. 11, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Manuel Cowboy Donley & His Trio Romantic-o

'The Brown Recluse Sessions'

"...Susana Baca in the world music wake of Cuba's Buena Vista Social Club. East Austin octogenarian Donley summons that..."

July 13, 2012 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Pachanga Latino Music Festival

Live Shot

"...salsa y "sabor" indie sextet Umano Ache nailing the Buena Vista Social Club standard "El Cuarto de Tula"; a..."

May 18, 2012 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Event Menu

Foodie events for April 8-13

"...meal paired with a screening of Wim Winders' documentary Buena Vista Social Club at the Central Market Cooking School..."

April 8, 2011 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Where There’s a Willie…

Billy Bob documents Willie Nelson in The King of Luck

"...Directors: Gruff Rhys & Dylan Goch Star Trek meets Buena Vista Social Club in this psychedelic western musical as..."

March 2, 2011 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin City Limits: 35 Years in Photographs

Thirty-five years of Austin City Limits images of course equals 35,000 words

"...Limits"), but alights the Arcade Fire in 2007. Late Buena Vista Social Club pianist Ruben Gonzalez grinning after an..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...Fabulosos Cadillacs, "El Matador," Grosse Point Blank? Cuban sandwich: Buena Vista Social Club. Brazil's Sinatra (Caetano Veloso), Beatles (Os..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Cumbia de la Pachanga!

Nine hours at Fiesta Garden's Latino Music Festival on Saturday turns into a rock en Español empanada

"...Side of the Road” and closer “Greenhorne Man” bookending Buena Vista Social Club calling card “Quizás, Quizás” and Moreno's..."

June 2, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

De Nada

Review of Omara Portuondo's “Gracias”

"...Buena Vista Social Club constitutes a brand worth its weight..."

Dec. 9, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Latin Beat

Five recent releases mostly en Español

"...their life force is forever preserved on the new Buena Vista Social Club At Carnegie Hall (World Circuit/Nonesuch). A..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Westside Social Club Pt 2

Larry Lange and that San Antonio sound

"...There’s not really a Westside Social Club but it sure seems like Larry Lange is..."

Oct. 8, 2008 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Queens of Havana: The Amazing Adventures of Anacaona, Cuba's legendary All-Girl Dance Band

Before there was the Buena Vista Social Club, there was the girls in the band

"...blast, including the menu from one of the first clubs they played; Buddy Rich, who took the drumming sister..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Music Review by Graham Reynolds

ACL Fest Friday Reviews

"...Like the Buena Vista Social Club, Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective's..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Music Feature by David Lynch

DVDnds

DVDnds

"...of Time (Shout! Factory) won't pass for Wim Wenders' Buena Vista Social Club, but once viewed, a mad rush..."

July 20, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Ibrahim Ferrer

"...the time of his death, Mi Sueño, Ferrer's third Buena Vista Social Club solo LP, sounds it in spots...."

June 15, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Rock & Roll Books

"...Gorillaz aren't entertained. Yet Kraftwerk, Donna Summer, Woody Guthrie, Buena Vista Social Club, Moby, et al. are deconstructed. Authenticity..."

June 1, 2007 Music Feature by David Lynch

The Searcher

Wim Wenders on his sense of the right direction

"...of successful, like Paris, Texas; Wings of Desire; or Buena Vista Social Club, but none of them were blockbusters,..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Diana Welch

Outlaw Onda

If Tejano music isn't on the radio, does it still exist?

"...launching Spanish-language newspapers, toying with telenovelas – on a social/political level, the newly arrived are described as the "immigrant..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

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