Apollo Frequencies is a series exploring sounds that seem to come from another world. The premise was simple and tongue in cheek: “Let’s make the first corrido about doing K.” The idea wasn’t entirely ...

Mexican lawmakers have long struggled to balance the country’s ongoing fight against narco-trafficking with the international ...

Some might call it whiplash, the way we sometimes zip from one genre of Latin music to another in our New Music shows. But I like to think of it as an expression of the richness and vitality of all ...

As of April of this year, nearly a third of all Mexican states have banned the public performance of corridos — the genre that has shaped Mexican identity for generations. This continues a long ...

Corridos is one of the most traditional music genres, going back through centuries of Mexican storytelling. But it’s now also a thoroughly-modern trend thanks to its streaming growth. A new report ...