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Alt.Latino Playlist: From Up North To Down South

Preservation Hall Jazz Band pays tribute to the music of Cuba, Residente releases some insurgent reggaeton and Winnipeg's Mariachi Ghost delves into Latin soul.
The venerable Preservation Hall Jazz Band makes a trip to Cuba and the results are funky <em>sabroso</em>

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This week's playlist is like a geography lesson: we start in the Great White North and gradually make our way down to the Southern Cone with stops in the U.S. and the Caribbean.

Get out your maps or load the appropriate app, we're going on a musical road trip this week.


The Mariachi Ghost, "Cuerpo Mortal"

This is Latin music from of the border. That's not a typo. A few years ago at that had the small crowd completely enraptured and had me the object of interest of a

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