American pop music is in a very transitional phase in its long and storied history right now, and it shouldn’t really come as a shock to anyone that during this time, we’re going to be hearing a lot, and I mean a lot, of really strange, confusing music that doesn’t really fit the context of our
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Opening with a minimalist strut across the piano keys, “La Bikina,” the new single from Esteban Alvarez’s fantastic new full-length LP Piano Meets Mariachi, it doesn’t take long for us to get this idea that this is not mariachi music as we have been brought up to understand it. No, Alvarez is crafting something a
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