music

This Christmas I gave my wife a record player as a gift, and we spent Día de Reyes enjoying the experience of listening to our vinyl LPs again. It was fantastic! The Vinyl LP Experience For some years my wife Ivonne has been dreaming of…

I believe that there is a market for Hybrid Concerts, where an artist performs in front of a (socially distanced and/or fully vaccinated) live audience and via streaming simultaneously. The Case for Hybrid Concerts The COVID-19 pandemic…

Larry Harlow recorded 3 albums that helped elevate the orchestration in Salsa music, and catapult the genre to its apex. These were "Hommy", "Salsa", and "Live in Quad". In the first part of the 1970s, artists like the Palmieri brothers,…

Following up on the previous blog on "Music & Domestic Violence", we look back at how Salsa music reflected our society's "machista" culture, contributing to this unfortunate behavior. Salsa "Machista" I'm using this term to describe…

I have little doubt that there is a music and violence link between the recent domestic violence cases in Puerto Rico and the woman-bashing songs in Reggaetón & Trap. Reggaetón & Trap Drive Domestic violence I'll…

I believe, like most experts, that it's too soon for in-person concerts. God knows we are tired of this quarantine that has now been going on for over a year. Note: I wrote a blog on the coronavirus a little over a year ago. You can…

Live online concerts are flourishing as an entertainment alternative caused by social distancing, but should they all be free or should we pay for some? Live Online Concerts During Coronavirus Pandemic The coronavirus pandemic forced…