In what's become an annual Día de los Muertos tradition, we play music and personal dedications honoring the departed.

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Honor the Departed in Our Annual Sonic Altar

This week on Alt.Latino, we're featuring a special episode from our friends at It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders. From the three-part series exploring crossover in pop music, the podcast takes a look at the "Latin Explosion" of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Presenting 'It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders': Pop music's 'Latin Explosion'

This week we share music stories from NPR News that you should know about, featuring Cimafunk, Susana Baca and 'El Charro de Mexico' Vicente Fernandez.

Alt.Latino And NPR News: Musical Profiles From Mexico, Cuba and Peru

An eclectic round-up of all the current happenings across the Latin Music world. Listen to conversations with Juanes, José González, Yosmel Montejo, as well as a run-down of the Latin Grammy nominations drama. This kind of chisme you don't want to miss.

Alt.Latino Unpacks the Latest Music News, Including Latin Grammy Drama

We bring you three stories from the U.S.-Mexico border: an unlikely music festival, musician/activist La Muna, and a bullfighting training center in Texas.

Humanity Has No Border on La Frontera

Isabel Allende (The Soul of a Woman) and Sandra Cisneros (Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo) tell Alt.Latino about the role of women in Latino cultures, and why you kill off the handsome male character by page 112.

It's Lit! Latina Novelists On Living With (And Writing In) Two Languages

A score of Latin artists reimagine Elvis Costello's 1978 classic album, This Year's Model, completely in Spanish.

Elvis En Español: 'This Year's Model' Reimagined

Our digital mail bag overflows with great new music to head into the last part of 2021. Songs heard on this episode:• Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble, "Dreaming in Lions"• Meridian Brothers and Conjunto Media Luna, "La Secta"• Dos Santos, "A Shot in the Dark"• ÌFÉ, "Fake Blood"• Cimafunk (Feat. George Clinton), "Funk Aspirin"• Helado Negro, "Outside the Outside"• Alejandro Escovedo, "La Cruzada"• Orquesta Akokán, "El Inflador"• Liniker, "Clau"All these tracks can be found in Alt.Latino's weekly playlist on Spotify and Apple Music.

Alt. Latino's Fall Music Preview

What better way to end the summer than with friends, a little vino, music and former Alt.Latino co-host Jasmine Garsd?

End Of Summer Rooftop Listening Party

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