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November 16, 2012 Jesse & Joy, a sibling duo, won four awards, including record and song of the year, and MTV Unplugged by Juanes won album of the year.

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November 15, 2012 If there's one thing Alt.Latino host Felix Contreras loves, it's Cuban music. This week he spins an assortment of new tracks, many of which combine Cuban rhythms and sounds with funk, electronic beats and beyond.

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November 12, 2012 Jimenez is part of a musical continuum that reaches from 19th-century Mexico all the way to The Rolling Stones. And he does it by playing waltzes on a button accordion.

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October 28, 2012 For the Colombian band, life is more than a party, as Bomba Estéreo takes on thought-provoking themes and examines subtleties of pulse and tempo. Even a sweaty dance-floor cooker like "Rocas" conveys a deeply sensual sway.

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September 27, 2012 The brothers introduced humorous and poignant Latino and LGBT characters to the world of comic books. They stop by Alt.Latino to discuss how they changed comics forever — and the music that helped inspire them.

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September 24, 2012 The New York street performer's songs feel like deep primal screams, each accompanied by a traditional Venezuelan cuatro — a small stringed instrument similar to a ukulele. At the NPR Music offices, Las Vegass weaves magic with her presence, her playing and especially her voice.

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August 27, 2012 The renowned double bassist from France demonstrates his love of classical, jazz and flamenco while performing solo behind the Tiny Desk. Watch Garcia-Fons thump, strum and loop his way through three mesmerizing songs.

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July 26, 2012 Lara's Mexican Institute of Sound recordings are clearly of this new millennium, but he also captures traces of everything from early-20th-century corridos to techno. Here, the prolific singer and producer shares a slice of the new sound he's concocting for Mexico.

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July 13, 2012 Jasmine and Felix return from their travels, ready to share some brand new music with you.

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July 5, 2012 Raul Campos joins Alt.Latino from Santa Monica to highlight upcoming bands from the LAMC.

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June 21, 2012 From rock musicians in Mexico exploring Balkan oompah sounds to an Argentine producer who deconstructs his home country's native folk songs, this week's episode of Alt.Latino focuses on iconoclasts and innovators around the Latin music world.

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June 21, 2012 Even though its members started out as the L.A. punk band The Bronx, Mariachi El Bronx isn't faking it. They play with just right amount of passion and pathos, strum as if they've studied the masters and don't look out of place in those pants and little jackets. Watch a fun set at the NPR offices.

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June 5, 2012 He sang on hits that propelled the group from the R&B charts to the top of the pop charts.

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May 2, 2012 Gustavo Arellano, from the syndicated column "Ask A Mexican!" joins us to listen to some Mexican music, and breaks down the origins of Cinco de Mayo — and why it's misunderstood in the U.S.

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April 29, 2012 With Venezuelan, Mexican, American and French members, the band plays in a Peruvian style that itself resulted from cross-cultural fermentation in Latin America.

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