Posts Tagged ‘Music’
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Tags: Allay, Casco-Viejo, Desliz Sonico, events, Indigo, Indigo All-Stars, la-casona, Llevarte a Marte, Music, Panama, Porto Diao and Friends, portodiao, Sonic Slip
May 12, 2009
This inaugural Slip is very special not only because it doubles as the release party of Porto Diao v3.0, but it also marks what will go down in Panamanian history as a once-in-a-lifetime performance by three bands that complement each other in ways no degree of wizardry could’ve crafted. Why do I say this? Because somehow the universe conspired to allow us the privilege of setting up this event with some of the most talented individuals in Panama’s music scene, who are part of bands that are the hotness at the moment.
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Tags: Banos Publicos, Casco-Viejo, El Cantante, Hector Lavoe, live music, Music, Panama, rencilla, Skraped Knees, youtube
May 9, 2009
After checking in on the Naso at the Cathedral plaza a couple of times, my friends and I eventually landed on this crazy little nook located on one of the corners of the adjacent Herrera plaza, the same one where La Casona is. I had never given it a chance for some reason or other, [...]
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Have you ever had the distinct pleasure of sharing physical space with a “Cholo Metal?” At first I thought the term was solely a Panamanian thing but after asking Google about it I realized it was a misconception; this rare animal can still be found throughout America (the continent, dear reader. Having the need to [...]
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Tags: adversities, alternative_rock_band, Bocas del Toro, Bocas Town, chant, dictator, evolutionary_progression, future_generations, general_manuel_antonio_noriega, irony, Isla Colon, koppas, manuel_antonio_noriega, marches, military_dictatorship, money_and_power, Music, omar_torrijos, omar_torrijos_herrera, onslaught, Panama, panamanian_history, physical_threat, president_of_panama, Return of the Archons, señor-loop, Star Trek, tax_haven, torrent, way_of_life, wikipedia, youtube
June 4, 2008
Their first record in over four years, Panama-based alternative rock band Señor Loop returns with a rock-solid album full of emotion, force and resolution wrapped in an onslaught of sonic resolve: “MCMLXXXII” is the name of said album, and to listen to is is to walk down a landscape of Panamanian history’s past, present and future, woven together with sounds that entice and hypnotize. “MCMLXXXII” is, on almost every level, an evolutionary progression from the band’s previous album, “Madretambor.”
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Tags: berklee college of music, college of music, commemorative cd, compositions, creative freedom, danilo prez, endeavour, facebook, folkloric elements, geographical borders, herron, human species, jazz festival, lucky stars, movement composition, mp3, Music, musical institutions, new england, new england conservatory, panama jazz festival, Panama Suite, panamanian music, truth and justice
February 7, 2008
One of the big announcements that took place during the Panama Jazz Festival was the release of a commemorative CD celebrating five years of Jazz in Panama; a nifty album performed by the Danilo Prez Big Band and produced by Billy Herron and the Berklee College of Music called “The Panama Suite.” The name fits [...]
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Tags: atlapa, colon, dave samuels, eternal-geek, fuller, jazz festival, jazz world, led zeppelin, mp3, Music, Panama, panama jazz festival, Panama Tourist Guide, quartet, Rob-Rivera, stairway to heaven, stanley jordan, tia, tia fuller, Video, wikipedia, youtube
January 30, 2008
I was at the production office of the 2008 Panama Jazz Festival on a sunny Friday morning getting stuff done with Yamile, putting out fires that often came throughout the course of the week we worked there, when a gentle young man, tall as a lamp post and seemingly fragile, sat down next to me [...]
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Tags: Articles, Bajo-Tierra, colombia, Español, fusion_band, guitar_bass, incubus, limp_bizkit, linkin_park, Los-Dias-Adelante, Medellin, Music, myspace, rhythm_guitar, rock_fusion, underground_circuit, Video, youtube
December 26, 2007
Colombian band Bajo Tierra has apparently been rocking all the bitches in the biker shots since 1988 and all I can think is “where in the world was I?” This punk rock fusion band is right up my alley, as evidences by their first single off their 4th album in 20 years, named Los Dias [...]
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Tags: Blog, Brawndo, El-Chico-Para-Ti-Soy-Yo, engrish, Idiocracy, Marcos-Beraha, Music, music_channel, myspace, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, PanamaRock, Rants, Video, viral_marketing_campaign, youtube
December 11, 2007
I read an interview on Marcos Beraha a couple of months ago, and in it this engineer mentioned that he’s always had the need to express himself through song and, with the advent prowess of the Internet, it allowed him to purchase nifty sound recording programs so he could record tracks right from home. Out [...]
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Tags: action_version, Blog, claude_van_damme, ecstatic, embark, formative_years, jean_claude_van, jean_claude_van_damme, local_tv_channels, man_undies, Memoirs, military_organization, Minibosses, Movies, mp3, Music, nintendo, psyched, sister_said, straight_in_the_eye, street_fighter_ii, temper_tantrums, ticket_lady, unisol, Video, world_warriors, youtube
September 26, 2007
Neither I nor the world was ready for what was unleashed upon the earth on December 23rd, 1994. An avid fan of games as you can probably tell, a young lad named Robert was psyched when one of his favorite games at the time was getting a movie adaptation. As it was, I was an [...]
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Tags: Blog, brainchild, business_ventures, butterfest, christmas_toy, food_manufacturing, gunpei_yokoi, Halo-3, hanafuda_cards, happening, japanese_businessman, long_story_short, love-motel, maintenance_engineer, manufacturing_business, Music, nintendo_company, noriega, Panama Tourist Guide, passage_of_time, playing_cards, Porto Diao and Friends, project_maintenance, push-button, pushes, Rants, Shigeru-Miyamoto, snark, something_positive, taxi_companies, Video, youtube
September 20, 2007
If this comes off as ranty then it is because I feel particularly touchy when it comes to the capacity for injustice in man. I’ve been preparing an article on Noriega and the 1989 invasion to Panama, labeled “Just Cause,” and that, tangled along with things happening at work and my personal life that I [...]
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The new Queens of the Stone Age album, entitled “Era Vulgaris,” is like a targeted cruise missile: it comes in hard and fast, unavoidable and precise in its desire to destroy it all. Unapologetic. The album is a lot of this, and a “greatest hits” of rhythms found in their previous albums from the band, [...]
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Tags: Blog, clubs, Culture, koppas, Memoirs, Music, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, Rants, señor-loop, society
June 16, 2007
A couple of weeks ago I went to this popular bar called Koppas. The time where I would go to trendy clubs and bars on a semi-daily basis is long and gone, but I had a good reason to step out of my comfort zone and expose myself to the sort of scenario trendy place [...]
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Tags: alcohol, bastardizer, blank-magazine, Blog, butterfest, Calavera, cell-phone-cameras, cell-phones, Culture, deftones, DKDE-Flesh, events, jen-carrasquillo, lenin-montano, lucho-romero, Movies, Music, net-distortion, Panama, panama-city, Panamanians, Porto Diao and Friends, Rants, Sk, society, Video, yamile
March 19, 2007
Day 2 of my Carnival Diary still pending, I just wanted to come in here and rant a little; it’s a practice I’ve somehow put aside as of late and I’m slowly trying to get back into the groove. Without further adieu then, I want to talk to you about 3 things that marked this [...]
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Blog / Music / Porto Diao and Friends / Rants
Tags: beer-and-blogs, Blog, butterfest, deftones, geekvoice, Music, Panama, panama-city, Porto Diao and Friends, Rants, Video
March 15, 2007
Just a quick reminder of the events the Porto Diao gang has lined up for all of our readers and friends. There has been some rearranging in the House of Porto, mostly because this March 23rd marks the first anniversary of the dastardly charmer. That’s right, a year ago Quique and I bought a server [...]
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Articles / Blog / Collaborators / Music / NSFW / Panama Tourist Guide
Tags: Articles, Blog, clubs, coheed-and-cambria, Collaborators, Culture, how-to-guide, matt-landau, mp3, Music, NSFW, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, panama-city, panama-report, Panamanians, Rob-Rivera, sex, sex-in-panama, society, tourism
January 27, 2007
My buddy Matt and the fine folks over at ThePanamaReport.com hit me up so that I would write an article for them regarding sex in Panama, in light of the popularity of the Push Buttons article I have floating around here so, since I hate to disappoint, I crafted an article on the subject with [...]
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