· March, 2006

Stories about Music from March, 2006

Argentina: Mundialmente

Fernando Casale has an update (and some sample tracks) of the Argentine-Brazilian band Mundialmente. If you like their music, send them an email says Casale.

17 March 2006

Armenia: Progress

Zarchka reports that there are small signs of progress in the music played on Armenian transit.

16 March 2006

Argentina: Turpentine

Fernando Casale can't stop listening to the new EP of Argentine indie group, Turpentine. You can listen to it yourself as all seven tracks are available for download.

14 March 2006

Mexico: Son Jarocho

Oaxaca Dockters describe Son Jarocho, a type of folk music with roots in Veracruz. Two other posts document the music with photography.

14 March 2006

Armenia: Eurovision Protest

Onnik Krikorian notes that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia is now touching Armenia's entry in to the Eurovision Song Contest. The entrant's listing of the “Republic of Nagorno...

13 March 2006

Nigeria: Hip hop

Naijablog posts an interview he had with “emerging hip-hop talent/producer FML (aka Blaise) on Lagos Live.”

13 March 2006

The Week That Was in Bahrain..

While Haitham Sabbah's pledge to add Palestine to Blogger, Yahoo and MSN has met with huge success, Mahmood continues to battle the demons with Mullas against a new Personal Law in Bahrain!

10 March 2006

Rolling Stones and U2 in Argentina

The most commented-upon issues of the moment in Argentinean blogs are music related; in the same week The Rolling Stones and U2 visited this country to perform two shows, each...

9 March 2006

Uzbekistan: Musical Tradition

On his own blog, Nick Walmsley writes about one of Uzbekistan's best known classical singers who strictly sticks to tradition. Part of this includes a heavy emphasis on the master-apprentice...

9 March 2006

The Week That Was – Bolivian Blogs

This article was written by Rolando Lopez from Rocko Weblog. This article originally appeared in the Bolivian blog community site Blogs de Bolivia. The original Spanish version can be found...

9 March 2006

Mali: Ali Farka Toure

A number of African bloggers remember Malian musican, Ali Farka Toure who passed away this week from cancer. Black Star Journal writes “One of the reasons I loved his sound...

8 March 2006

Costa Rica: Papaya Fest 2006

Roy Rojas summarizes the Central American music festival, Papaya Fest 2006 (ES). He's also got a great flickr gallery of images from the week-long festival. Fusildechispas has another review (ES).

8 March 2006