Pil
Public Image Ltd. (aka PiL), are an experimental band which formed in 1978 in London, England. Its original lineup was John Lydon (vocals) (formerly of the Sex Pistols), Keith Levene (guitar) and Jah Wobble (bass), although by 1983, the band’s lineup would become a fluctuating one, revolving around Lydon. PiL are often cited as one of the most challenging and innovative bands of the post-punk period; John Lydon is quoted as saying he wanted to form an anti-rock band.
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Pil
Public Image Ltd. (aka PiL), are an experimental band which formed in 1978 in London, England. Its original lineup was John Lydon (vocals) (formerly of the Sex Pistols), Keith Levene (guitar) and Jah Wobble (bass), although by 1983, the band’s lineup would become a fluctuating one, revolving around Lydon. PiL are often cited as one of the most challenging and innovative bands of the post-punk period; John Lydon is quoted as saying he wanted to form an anti-rock band.
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El flaco y la mina
El Flaco y La Mina is a song from the inside of Buenos Aires — not the postcard version, the real one. Pablo Mamiaro is a guitarist from Mataderos, one of those neighborhoods where the city shows its actual face. His music carries what Buenos Aires carries: tango, street poetry, the particular weight of things that don't get said out loud. He's worked alongside Mercedes Sosa, Eladia Blázquez, and Chango Farías Gómez — voices that defined what Argentine music sounds and feels like. This song follows two people through a city that's almost a third character. They board the subway at Acoyte with a single token between them. The rails do the talking. They get off at Plaza Miserere — Once, the heart of the city — and sit with everything still unresolved. Why did you never say anything? she thinks. Maybe I never understood, he thinks. And then a glance, and it all starts over. That's the Buenos Aires tango tradition distilled into three minutes: not the dramatic gesture, but the silence before it. The moment suspended between what was almost said and what was finally felt. A song that smells like the subway, the plaza, and a love that refuses to close.more
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Conversando
"Conversando" — A 110-year-old Buenos Aires poem, set to music for today In 1912, a young poet named Evaristo Carriego died in Buenos Aires at 29. He left behind a handful of poems about the city's working-class outskirts — its quiet corners, its stubborn men, its wine-stained dignity. Borges would later call him the inventor of the suburbs as a literary subject. More than a century later, those verses are still finding new life. Pablo Mamiaro — a guitarist born and raised in Buenos Aires — takes one of Carriego's poems and brings it into the present. The subject is a man who has made peace with the world on his own terms: indifference, wine, books left deliberately unread. Carriego wrote him with affection and zero judgment. Mamiaro sings him the same way. The bridge between them is no accident. Mamiaro has collaborated with Mercedes Sosa — the towering Argentine folk voice known across Latin America as La Negra — and that lineage runs through every note. This is not nostalgia dressed up as music. It's a conversation across time, from the Buenos Aires of 1912 to the Buenos Aires of right now. A song that smells like wine and old streets. And somehow, completely current.more
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Mataderos
Hecho en Buenos Aires - Argentina. Saludos! Made in Buenos Aires - Argentina. Greetings!more
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