Hotel De Nova, Superfónicos

In a town dominated and defined by country & western, blues, and punk – with deep veins of traditional Latino and even jazz – contemporary Latin music didn’t take root until the millennium with Grupo Fantasma. Founding guitarist Beto Martinez produced Superfónicos’ debut full-length last year, connecting the scene‘s firestarter to one of its finest recorded productions. Renaceré bottles this Renaissance like pure Agave from Jalisco. The Colombian septet that took root in our live music capital soars Spanish over brass and Afro-Latin rhythms as if all Latin America could be summed up in a single cumbia. Experience it every Thursday in February on South Congress and shake your zeitgeist. – Raoul Hernandez