As odd as it may sound, the leader of Argentine rock band Divididos (the Divided) now believes that dividing everything makes no sense. Ricardo Mollo, singer and guitarist in the hottest power trio of the Nineties, has been reading Indian Zen master Osho on the creation of a “new man”…

To be alive today, fifteen years after Rata Blanca first tasted fame in mid-Eighties Argentina by playing traditional hard rock and a variation of melodic heavy metal, is a miracle. Walter Giardino, the band’s leader, guitarist, and main songwriter, says that to be able to release a new album, and…

By the time MTV Latin America aired Los Prisioneros’ (The Prisoners) video “We Are South American Rockers” — the first video to roll when the network hit the air nine years ago — the Chilean rock band that released four studio albums between 1984 and 1990 was already dead. But…

Despite the seemingly endless waves of exiled South American rock fanatics washing into Miami in recent years, most Latin rock festivals in town have been flops. Even the 1999 and 2000 Florida stops of the fully beer-sponsorship-funded Watcha tour came up empty despite boasting such big Latin alternative names as…

Physically finding Manu Chao has never been easy. He’s everywhere, and not. He’s so proud of his ephemeral nature that he even sings about it. In “Desaparecido,” one of the more popular songs he recorded in transit for his 1998 breakthrough album Clandestino, he lets us know, “I’m never there…

Pop stars are only discovered on TV shows, not in real life, right? Don’t tell that to Puerto Rican band Circo. “This is totally pop-star imagery,” laughs charismatic singer Jose Luis Abreu, better known as Fofe. Sitting with his bandmates — drummer David Perez, keyboardist Edgardo “Egui” Santiago, bassist Nicolas…

On his latest album, Emboscada (Ambush), Puerto Rico rapper Vico C brags that he is still respected by fans even though critics have branded him a has-been. “How to go back to [being] number one?” the 31-year-old asks. “Easy,” he answers, “being faithful, working hard, and playing a few tricks.”…

Next week in my spaceship/I will leave this world/I can’t find peace here … I want to be a citizen of the world. Juan Antonio Ferreyra sang those words on the title track of his 1991 album Salida de Emergencia. Eleven years later JAF — as the Argentine blues man…

If you consider Enrique Bunbury the only survivor after the sinking of Titanic-like Spanish rock band Heroes del Silencio, then his fascination with dark and foggy atmospheres will seem appropriate. In his new solo album, the fourth since Heroes released its last live disc (ironically named Para Siempre [Forever]) in…

Don’t get the wrong idea, Kinky is not the Mexican Marilyn Manson; its members don’t wear bondage or leather clothes. They just like the sound of the name. In fact, says singer and guitarist Gil Cerezo, “We are like The Flintstones now, breaking down all the boulders we can to…

At 50, Argentine rock legend Charly Garcia is back with Influencia, his best work in a decade. The album is based on the song “Influenza,” originally included in Todd Rundgren’s The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect. As odd as it may sound, the title of that album released in 1983…

In 30 years the Argentine audience will end up signing autographs, predicts Ratones Paranoicos singer Juan Sebastian “Juanse” Gutierrez. The emotional crowds who greet every Argentine artist who ventures to the United States will become stars in their own right, he insists, not only in Miami but across the globe…

Last November, when the Argentinean government blocked access to everyone’s bank accounts and the national economy collapsed, rock band Los Piojos still managed to fill a 40,000-seat soccer stadium. It should come as no surprise, then, that the rockeros whose name means lice played to sold-out crowds of Argentinean expatriates…