This week on Alt.Latino, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras talk about an exciting new album from Manu Chao on the way — his first in 17 years — and their favorite recent songs from artists like the ...
And suddenly there he stood: Leprechaun in his regulation Sandinista green shirt and hat bent down low, 45 kilos soaking wet, materialized out of the air as if a Mayan alux (ah-louche) – sprite, ...
Music can be a lot of things: powerful, divisive, heartbreaking, cathartic. When Manu Chao came to Phoenix in September, his music served a rare purpose: healing. Turns out, while Chao was visiting, ...
Though he is a musician who strives to keep it real, Manu Chao often seems to be a fictional character himself. A sort of musical Peter Pan, he is the quintessential star for a globalized world — one ...
Most mainstream music listeners in the U.S. know Manu Chao as the artist behind 1999’s catchy novelty hit ”Bongo Bong”, if at all. In much of the rest of the world, however, the Barcelona-based singer ...
It’s been over 20 years since the French-Spanish luminary, Manu Chao, first released his multilingual, landmark debut, Clandestino. A prescient meditation on the neither-here-nor-there, limbo state of ...
CD review Manu Chao, "La Radiolina" (Nacional/Because) It's been six years since the globe-trotting anti-globalist Manu Chao's last studio album. What emerges on "La Radiolina" is a sound that is ...
Last time we spoke, September 2008, Manu Chao sat outside at the Four Seasons Hotel pool, the bright Saturday morning following the previous evening's headlining slot at ACL. His first four days in ...
Manu’s band, which he now calls La Ventura, had long-term sidekick Madjid Fahem on guitar and Phillippe Teboul on drums (Manu originally met him in the Eighties as part of Les Casses Pieds who used to ...
Despite a huge, if factionalized, Spanish-speaking population, New York has not really been a hotbed of “rock en espanol.” But if the throng that greeted Franco-Spanish singer Manu Chao in Manhattan’s ...