Music
The one-stop hotspot to find your favorite music in Chicago and beyond. Scroll through the latest local shows, festivals, interviews, album reviews and fanfare of your favorite artists. Let’s face it—Latinos don’t just listen to Spanish music, but we’ve got rhythm. Plug your headphones in and enjoy.
Review: Queen of Samba Contest
By Claudia Urbano on February 21, 2012 | Leave a comment!
Queen of Samba contest was a festive celebration of Brazilian culture in Chicago
¡CumbiaSazo! – Interview with DJ Itzi Nallah of PEOPLE’s DJs Collective
By Abraham Velázquez Tello on February 20, 2012 | Leave a comment!
The role of the DJ is one that is very rarely acknowledged. They help cultivate movements, create spaces for people to unite and most importantly dance. At Gozamos, we understand honor this and and have talked to some very tenanted DJ Collectives from around the city, including our favorites at Sonorama, Sound Culture and SoulPhonetics. The People’s DJs Collective has been [...]
The Devil Makes Three: Finding the connections between punk and Johnny Cash
By Catalina Maria Johnson on February 18, 2012 | Leave a comment!
“There’s always been a connection between punk and country and bluegrass music, especially in terms of the songwriting – they all depend on storytelling, particularly hard-luck stories.”
Leni Stern: Africa in her Heart
By Catalina Maria Johnson on February 17, 2012 | Leave a comment!
Conversing with jazz and blues songstress about finding a musical home in Africa
Interview: Grupo Cumbé
By Claudia Garcia-Rojas on February 15, 2012 | Leave a comment!
Chicago’s best local latin and Colombian musicians re-arrange and perform Colombian Cumbia classics with Latin Jazz improvisation.
GlobalFEST 2012: #recap
By Catalina Maria Johnson on January 31, 2012 | Leave a comment!
A Moveable Music Feast: Global tunes from Andrade to ZAZ (and just about everything in between)
Outernational: Todos Somos Ilegales
By Catalina Maria Johnson on January 27, 2012 | Leave a comment!
“We’re talking about revolution, a new world, a new system based on the ashes of this one”
Los Hollywood: South Cali British indie-kinda rock
By Catalina Maria Johnson on January 24, 2012 | Leave a comment!
“We play it however the song comes out, and it takes its own direction – pop or rock and roll or ranchera”
Interview: Alsarah & the Nubatones
By Claudia Garcia-Rojas on January 23, 2012 | Leave a comment!
Grace, Funk and East African Soul
Chicago Urbanite: Where to dance Salsa in Chicago?
By Claudia Urbano on January 13, 2012 | Leave a comment!
Experience the Chicago Salsa Scene without paying full price
Album Review: Common’s The Dreamer/The Believer
By Hector Luis Alamo, Jr. on January 11, 2012 | 1 Comment
Chicago’s most venerated rapper tries to refocus hip hop’s purpose
Da Best of Music Reviews, 2011
By Jose Luis Benavides on January 10, 2012 | Leave a comment!
OMG, this was the hardest thing in the world. Reviewing a year of stellar reviews done by Gozamos’ superstars. Seriously.
#Rewind2011 – The 10 Best Concerts of the Year
By Catalina Maria Johnson on January 9, 2012 | 1 Comment
In these times of easy, free MP3 downloads, there is still one magical experience that reigns supreme: a great live concert, where music appears before your ears and takes over your body and perhaps your soul.
Lupe Fiasco’s Unofficial ‘Double Burger With Cheese’ Video
By Claudia Garcia-Rojas on January 6, 2012 | Leave a comment!
Dolobeats released visuals to one of the stand-out tracks on Lupe Fiasco’s Friend of The People mixtape: ‘Double Burger with Cheese’. The unofficial video streams a montage of clips from popular 90s films, such as Juice, Menace II Society, Boyz N The Hood, New Jersey Drive, Poetic Justice, Dead Presidents, South Central, Sugar Hill, New [...]
Da Best Tracks of 2011, Part Two
By Jose Luis Benavides on January 5, 2012 | Leave a comment!
Yup, no filler, no bullshit, just da best tracks of 2011. Check it.
Da Best of Music Interviews, 2011
By Jose Luis Benavides on January 3, 2012 | Leave a comment!
OMG, this was the hardest thing in the world. Reviewing a year of stellar interviews done by Gozamos’ superstars. Seriously.
Da Best Tracks of 2011, Part One
By Jose Luis Benavides on January 2, 2012 | Leave a comment!
Yup, no filler, no bullshit, just da best tracks of 2011. Check it.
Interview: Antonio Ocasio does WEPA!
By Jose Luis Benavides on December 27, 2011 | Leave a comment!
Get your dancing shoes prepped for all that New Year’s dancing with WEPA on Dec. 28th in Chicago.
Interview: La Vida Bohème
By Catalina Maria Johnson on December 8, 2011 | Leave a comment!
Nominated for a two Latin Grammy awards and now for a Grammy for their album “Nuestra” in the category of Best Latin Pop, Rock or Urban Album, the members of La Vida Bohème from Caracas, Venezuela showed up for our LAMC ’11 interview in their iconic paint-dribbled clothes and bodies.
When the Desert meets the Blues: Tinariwen
By Claudia Urbano on December 6, 2011 | Leave a comment!
World-famous Touareg band performed in Chicago
Review: Bunbury and Zoé at the Aragon
By Carolina Sanchez on December 2, 2011 | Leave a comment!
Zoé and Bunbury rocked Chicago, Gozamos gives you all the full scoop.
Pedrito Martinez: The Healing Beat of a Joyful Rumba
By Catalina Maria Johnson on December 1, 2011 | Leave a comment!
Pedrito Martinez talks about the true meaning of the Cuban rumba
Javier Ruibal: The Music of Imaginary Borderlands
By Catalina Maria Johnson on November 30, 2011 | Leave a comment!
The celebrated singer-songwriter shares his point of view about life, love and how his music was born in the mix of the peoples of southern Spain
Review: Yelle messes me up
By Jose Luis Benavides on November 23, 2011 | Leave a comment!
A little T-day review of a fluffed up turkey-esque performer I like to call the queen of electro-pop. Yelle’s recent Mexico City performance, really got me in a funk, down in the dirts or just plain pensive about performance, race and some other stuff.
