The Hollywood hills are alive, once again, with the dance rhythms of cumbia. Noche de Cumbia is back and bigger than ever, with shows at both the Hollywood Bowl and the Ford. The two-night concert ...

Whether you're in a convenience store in Ushuaia, the southernmost tip of Argentina, Mexico City or East L.A., you're likely to hear cumbia blaring from a stereo. In Latin America, no musical style ...

Before "Noche de Cumbia" was even a concept, Mario Rodríguez and his wife, Elizabeth, hosted a series of shows featuring Houston musician Gio Chamba, a mixture of electro-psychedelic rock and cumbia - ...

This is part of a special series, Cumbia Across Latin America, a visual report across six countries covering the people, places and cultures that keep this music genre alive. All dance was seen as ...

Get those hips ready to shake and sway because a weeklong celebration of cumbia music is coming to Los Angeles in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. “Cumbia is one of the most listened to forms of ...

Let’s face it: cumbia (traditional or not) can be really cheesy. So thank God for the fusionistas. The good ones, that is. What follows is only my personal top 10 and a good representation of artists ...

As thousands of concertgoers pour into Southern California’s desert this weekend for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the all-star lineup will include Ocho Ojos, a homegrown band from the ...

Looking for ways to celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Music steeped in the sounds of Latin America will ring out across many Austin venues as the Mexican holiday is observed on Thursday. Here's a list of ...

In the 1990s, when Eblis Álvarez was studying in the Colombian capital of Bogotá, cumbia music was mostly associated with folkloric gatherings and traditional holidays. “It was seen as this music that ...