Club Fonograma x Ruido Fest 2016

dënver 😱

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Club Fonograma has been invited back to Ruido Fest for the 2016 edition of Chicago's premiere "Latin Alternative" Music Festival. Last year was glorious- an affirmation of the power of Club Fonograma and our quest to catalog and document emerging and established music from our milieu. From hanging out backstage with Dënver, getting drunk with Silverio and Jessy Bulbo (Jessy, I still have your luggage), to performing onstage with Maria y José, Ruido Fest 2015 was the place to be.

just aquí en Chicago, watching María y josé 🍕

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This year, we will have the privilege of hanging out with Ibiza Pareo all weekend- fresh from their Argentinian Grammy nomination. We will also be catching up with Marineros and hand delivering some flowers to our girls, Natalia Lafourcade and Las Robertas. We most definitely will make contact with Miranda! and touch base on their artistic trajectory and their collaborations with our prince of pop, Alex Anwandter. We wanna chill hang with Helado Negro and personally thank him for the shout out he gave Club Fonograma in the LA Times. & Silverio might not attack me with a beer this year so there is plenty to look forward to this weekend at Ruido Fest 2016.

Mi vida punk con Jessy Bulbo & Markos #RuidoFest #ClubFonograma #PopInsurrection

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Purchase tickets here and stay tuned for Ruido Fest 2017. There were many Club Fonograma favorites who were considered for the 2016 edition of the fest (Javiera Mena, Alex Anwandter, Fakuta, Ases Falsos, Diosque, Tego Calderon) that might make the cut next year. Check out our in-depth coverage of Ruido Fest 2015 and our explosive conversations with Dënver, Silverio, Jessy Bulbo, and more.

los enamorados, Dani & Gio. 

In mourning, in rage: The Pulse Orlando Nightclub Massacre.

The following is an attempt on behalf of the Club Fonograma family to send our deepest condolences to the communities impacted by the "worst mass shooting in US history." We also wish to be historically accurate: the Pulse Orlando Nightclub Massacre isn't the worst mass murder that American $ociety has produced. The largest massacre in U$ history happened at Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1890. 500 indigenous people were exterminated by colonial white supremacy on December 29th at the Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation. Club Fonograma strives for intersectionality. Our writers span continents, our roots run from Africa to Mexico. As music anthropologists, our unique approach and perspective and praxis may differ, but we stand united on the cultural battle against hate and brutality. We stand united with our Muslim and Arabic friends. We stand united with our gay, queer, trans, lesbian communities and everybody outside colonial gender binaries. We stand united with our Black & Brown communities worldwide and therefore reject any attempt on behalf of white supremacist state power configurations that will turn this tragedy into yet another tactic of fear led social control. In other words, we reject authoritarianism in all its forms. We reject our communities being murdered and disappeared by agents of hate and control, whether they be lone wolves or governmental bodies and their acolytes. We propose healing, autonomous & community based solutions to the problems that impact the lives of each and everyone of us in unique and nuanced ways. We remember the words of Alex Anwandter on "Manifesto":

"Yo quiero ser un manifesto hecho cuerpo, si, un cuerpo, que va a disparar. Y entiendo toda tu violencia, que, niño mío, no es ciencia, que lo justo no es normal. Defiéndete no más." 

In English: "I want to be a manifesto made flesh, yes, a body, that is going to shoot. And I understand all of your violence, that, dear boy, isn't science. Justice is not normal. Simply, defend yourself."

We will never forget our queer & trans communities and everyone outside repressive colonial gender binaries who struggle everyday to simply exist and resist inside a $ystem that wishes the annihilation of dangerous and unforeseen ways of living and loving. We will continue dancing our reggaetón, our cumbia, and our salsa.

UPDATE: We have just been informed that a similar attack took place in Veracruz, Mexico back in May. 7 people were murdered at the gay nightclub La Madame in the town of Xalapa.