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With a bassy voice and over a minimalist syncopated beat, Wilfredo “Willy” Aldarondo sings of lament. “The love of my life left for New York / my mom followed my aunt, to Florida they went/packing my bags, it’s my turn now / the plane landed, and no one clapped.” These …

When indie rock musician Neysa Blay sat down to start writing songs for her new album, “Nada es Suficiente,” she found herself in an unusual predicament. She’d been sober for nearly a decade at that point, putting considerable distance between her turbulent past and the more placid present. “I’m really …

Many popular musicians have created fictional alter egos as a way to explore new sonic avenues that they wish to experiment with. David Bowie had Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, David Johansen had Buster Poindexter, Lady Gaga spent a whole season as Jo Calderone, and the less said about Garth …

Denise Bidot is an international model of Puerto Rican and Kuwaiti descent who has modeled for numerous brands, including Kohl’s, Macy’s, Target, Levi’s, Forever 21, and Good American. She is a fierce advocate for body positivity, and in 2017, she launched the There’s No Wrong Way to Be a Woman …

Ricardo Bermúdez remembers his father, with whom he didn’t have the closest relationship with, leaving behind tapes of car racing compilations the few times he deigned to visit. This wasn’t unusual because his father worked with cars, so little Ricardo would often sit down and watch the tapes out of …

It’s early in the afternoon when Young Miko joins our Zoom call from Puerto Rico. Through the windows of the conference room, light is streaming in. Outside, the tops of bushy trees are just visible, framing the crisscrossing lattice of steel and lights that make up the proscenium of the …

When Bad Bunny dedicated his Grammy to Puerto Rico proclaiming it the “cuna y capital de reggaeton en el mundo entierro,” he was making a statement. While the small island pioneered and refined the subgenre (a mash-up of Jamaican dancehall, Panamanian reggae en español, and New York–style hip-hop) during the …

Prosecutors from the United States and agents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are reportedly investigating wealthy crypto traders and fund managers suspected of illegally benefiting from Puerto Rico’s tax breaks.  According to a June 12 report from Bloomberg, investigators are currently building civil and criminal cases against a number …

Even from across the sea of pixels that comprise our zoom call, Jay Wheeler’s energy is infectious. He’s just spent the majority of the day in a press junket, and I am one of his last calls. But if the 29-year-old artist would rather be doing something else, it doesn’t …

A few weeks into kicking off his “Saturno World Tour,” Puerto Rican and Latin trap artist Rauw Alejandro made a show-stopping entrance to an audience of more than 15,000 people by literally zip-lining his way onto the stage — while he was fully decked out in an alien-like ensemble. On …

Touch upon this story Remark SALINAS, Puerto Rico — Shuttered home windows are a everlasting fixture in Salinas, an industrial city on Puerto Rico’s southeast coast that’s thought-about one of many U.S. territory’s most contaminated areas. For years, poisonous ash and noxious chemical compounds from coal-fired and thermoelectric energy vegetation …

That is an opinion editorial by Michael Markle, a member of the San Juan BitDevs meetup. Puerto Rico has seen all of it, from currency devaluations, confiscation of wealth, natural disasters, colonizers and fights for independence, all in lower than 100 years. Earlier than that, Pedro Albizu Campos fought for …