Mariposas Galácticas & Andrea Bejar, Our Summer Music Playlist
We start this episode catching up on the LA mayoral race, housing prices in LA, and why we’re not feeling great about the nature of debates. Next, on this musical episode of Tamarindo, we talk to Mariposas Galácticas, an eight-piece Philadelphia-based band that brings together cumbia, klezmer, punk, and Indigenous Andean musical traditions. They share how friendship, ancestry, activism, and community shape their genre-defying sound—and how their music creates space for dancing, resistance, and “rebellious joy.”
After that, we speak to Mexico City–born, Los Angeles–based singer-songwriter…
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