Reanna Cruz
Reanna Cruz is a news assistant for NPR Music's Alt.Latino.
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The singles and albums that came out this year seem to reflect the diversity of Latin music more than ever.
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From Jersey club to the U.K. underground, 2021's best electronic music looks like a complex melting pot of genre and history.
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100 gecs has always had the potential to reach their freaky arms out to stadiums, dance floors, and mosh pits alike; "mememe" recognizes the duo's transfixing power to do so.
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KIRARA uses sounds that evoke the childlike wonder of squaring up in a boss level against an unspecified bully
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On "Stupid Boy," Slayyyter and Big Freedia tear up the EDM-inspired track, blowing through their verses with aplomb and disparaging the himbo agenda once and for all.
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Merlyn Wood smashes together the best parts of Brockhampton with snares straight out of a SOPHIE sample pack.
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The Ecuadorian-American producer talks his spiritual new album Far In and building an artistic vocabulary
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Blackfishing aside, there's a reason Jesy Nelson isn't a household name. With toothless lyrics and nondescript vocals, Nelson commits the cardinal solo career sin: being boring
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Nicki Nicole's Tiny Desk home concert is representative of her artistry writ large, as an artist born in 2000 but with a connection to sounds and styles beyond her years.
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The type of song you play on speakers until they burst, "check1" pushes the needle forward for a genre that sometimes feels stuck in its own mythos.