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Free Central Park Summer Stage Concert (Saturday, July 14th) Features Mexican Rock Luminaries Café Tacuba, Bronx-based Buzz Band
Pacha Massive, and Puerto Rico’s Leading Rappera, La Sista; Additional LAMC Artists Include Federico Aubele, Chetes, Zoé, The Pinker Tones,
Panda, Mala Rodriguez, Liquits, and The Dey
The LAMC, Presented by MTV Tr3s, Returns to New York City July 10th – 14th, and Will Feature Free Concerts & Film Nights at Central Park
Summerstage and Celebrate Brooklyn Festival at Prospect Park, As Well As Industry Panels at the Roosevelt Hotel, Numerous Artist Showcases
Across the City, and Closing Night Party at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum
$249 Discounted Registration Rate Expires June 1st; Online Registration & Hotel Reservations @ www.LatinAlternative.com
“Despite changing tastes and sounds, the Latin Alternative Music Conference still provides a necessary outlet.” -BILLBOARD
“LAMC is to Latin alternative the way the Sundance Film Festival is to indie
movies.” -ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
“The LAMC has emerged as the top showcase for up-and-coming Latin acts.”
-ASSOCIATED PRESS
The LAMC (Latin Alternative Music Conference) has announced its full concert and showcase lineup, as well as panels. Among the highlights are a free Central Park Summer Stage concert on Saturday, July 14th with Mexican rock icons Café Tacuba, The Bronx’s own bilingual trip-hop/funk collective Pacha Massive, and up-and-coming Puerto Rican rapper La Sista. LAMC’s annual concert at Celebrate Brooklyn will take place the evening of Friday, July 13th in Prospect Park, and this year’s lineup will feature Zoé, Chetes and The Pinker Tones. Additional LAMC events include the Music & Film Night @ Central Park SummerStage, Indie Showcase @ The Mercury Lounge, MTV Tr3s/Batanga showcase @ Bowery Ballroom, Acoustic Showcase @ SOB’s, and Closing Night Party @ The Cooper Hewitt Museum.
(SEE FURTHER BELOW FOR FULL ARTIST LINEUP)
LAMC has also announced its panel topics and themes for 2007. Among the panels (being held at The Roosevelt Hotel), which feature many industry heavy hitters, are:
-DIGI-LANDIA: The Growth & Landscape of Latin Digital Music Sales
-Selecting the Music: How Programmers, Marketers and Music Supervisors Make Their Decisions
-Changing of the Guard: Latin Alternative’s New Media Supporters
-Class of ’97 Reunion: A Look Back at the Last Ten Years in Latin Alternative Music
-This Is Radio Clash: Are Satellite, Online, Public, Bilingual & Podcast Radio Formats the Future of Latin Alternative Broadcasting?
With a warm welcome from the Big Apple, the biggest event in the world for cutting edge Latin music will return to New York July 10th – 14th. Discounted early bird registration for LAMC, presented by MTV Tr3s, is available for only $249 at www.LatinAlternative.com (rate expires on June 1st). Featuring leading artists as well as many of the music industry’s most prominent decision-makers, the eighth annual LAMC is a “must play” event for developing and established acts alike. Of the six artists recently spotlighted in Time Magazine’s recent “6 Sizzling CD’s from South of the Border” Latin Grammy feature, five of the acts had played LAMC before they went on to achieve wider commercial success.
With past conferences averaging more than 1250 music industry attendees and 25,000 concert fans each year, LAMC 2007 promises to be an exciting year. This four-day conference providing networking opportunities with the genre’s leading artists, label executives, journalists, marketers, managers, retailers and programmers, is the most extensive to be offered by a Latin music conference to date.
Tuesday, July 10th:
-6:00pm – 10:00pm
LAMC Music & Film Night at Central Park Summerstage featuring So What’s Your Price (¿Y TÚ, Cuánto Cuestas?), a film by Olallo Rubio, with musical performance by Federico Aubele
Wednesday, July 11th:
-8:00pm – 1:00am LAMC Indie Showcase @ The Mercury Lounge
Come check out performances by some of the most exciting up-and-coming talent from Venezuela, the US, and Mexico, with performances by Upground (Los Angeles), B-side Players (San Diego), 4to Poder (Venezuela), Austin TV (Mexico City), Bengala (Mexico City), and Liquits (Mexico City) – with additional acts to be announced. This is a semi-private event open to LAMC registrants, with a limited number of tickets to be made available for purchase to the general public.
Thursday, July 12th:
-11:00am – 12:30pm: Panel: “Digi-landia”: The Growth and Landscape of Latin Digital Music Sales
Judy Cantor-Navas – MTV Urge
Alfonso Carbone – Feria Music/Oreja (Chile)
Leila Cobo – Billboard
Javier Farfan – Microsoft Zune
Erik Gilbert – IODA
Rachael McLean – GoTV
Rob Wetstone – eMusic
-1:00pm – 2:00 pm: MIDEM Cocktail Party @ The Roosevelt Hotel
-3:30pm – 5:00pm: Panel: Selecting the Music: How Programmers, Marketers and Music Supervisors Make Their Decisions, presented by Muzak
Rick Banales – Virgin Megastores
Alex Espinosa – Muzak
JT Griffith – Nettwerk
Nic Harcourt – KCRW (Los Angeles)
Jon Kertzer – Microsoft Zune/KEXP (Seattle)
Raphaella Lima – EA Games
Pilar O’Leary – Smithsonian Latino Center
Tomas Pelaez – MTV Tr3s
-6:00pm – 8:30pm: Acoustic Showcase @ SOBs
Enjoy the sounds of an intimate evening of acoustic performances by The Pinker Tones, Chetes, Pacha Massive, Ceci Bastida, Spigga, 4to Poder, Liquits, Bengala, Austin TV, Zoé, Gonzalo Yañez, Volumen Cero, and Nicole.
-6:00pm – 9:00pm: Circo performing @ El Museo del Barrio
Join us in Spanish Harlem at the Museo del Barrio outdoor courtyard for a special live performance by Grammy-nominated Puerto Rican rock ensemble, Circo.
-9:00pm – 1:00am: LAMC/MTV Tr3s/Batanga Showcase @ Bowery Ballroom
This showcase features an impressive line-up featuring Monterrey’s rocking Panda, rappin’ chica Mala Rodriguez from Spain, urban trio The Dey out of NYC, and Mexico’s Pambo. This is a semi-private event open to LAMC registrants, with a limited number of tickets to be made available for purchase by the general public.
Friday, July 13th:
-10:00am – 11:30am: Panel: Changing of the Guard: Latin Alternative’s New Media Supporters
Claire Frisbie – NYRemezcla.com
Mark Kemp – Paste/Harp/Creative Loafing
Rick Marroquin – Batanga
Flavio Morales – Mun2
Rick Najera – LATV
Cristina Roden – Freelance: Amazon.com/National Geographic/ Global Rhythm
Herb Scannel – Next New Networks
-12:45pm – 2:15pm: Panel: Class of ’97 Reunion: A Look Back at the Last Ten Years in Latin Alternative Music
Gabriel Abaroa – LARAS/Latin Grammy’s
Tomas Cookman – Cookman International
Yale Evelev – Luaka Bop
Larry Gold – SOB’s
Joselo – Café Tacuba
Robert Lear – Universal Mexico
Andres Levin – Producer/Yerba Buena
John Reilly – Rogers & Cowen
-3:30pm – 5:00pm: Panel: This is Radio Clash: Are Satellite, Online, Public, Bilingual & Podcast Formats the Future of Latin Alternative Broadcasting?
Reverend Moose – CMJ New Music Report
Ariana Morgenstern – KCRW (Los Angeles)
Josh Norek – Nacional Records
Rodolfo Sandoval – AOL Latino
Spin-One – La Calle-FM (NYC)
Bruce Warren – WXPN (Philadelphia)
-7:30pm – 11:00pm: LAMC/Celebrate Brooklyn Show @ Prospect Park Bandshell
Rock out under the stars to Spain’s electronic sensations The Pinker Tones, Monterrey’s acclaimed vocalist Chetes (of Zurdok and Vaquero fame) and Mexico’s popular alterna-rockers, Zoé.
Saturday, July 14th:
3:00pm –7:00pm: LAMC/Central Park Summerstage Show @ Rumsey Playfield
An afternoon of sunshine in the park and amazing music by one of Mexico’s most eclectic and luminary bands, Café Tacuba, the Boogie Down Bronx’s funkiest, Pacha Massive, and Puerto Rico’s leading rappera, La Sista.
8:00pm – 10:00pm: Closing Night Party @ Cooper Hewitt Museum 2 East 91st St (at 5th Ave)
Come out and celebrate with spirits and sounds of some of Latin Alternative’s hottest DJs on the wheels!
For additional information about LAMC, please visit www.LatinAlternative.com
Sponsorship & Latin Media Relations – Jennifer Sarkissian – jennifer@cookman.com – 818.763.1397
English Media Relations – Josh Norek – josh@cookman.com – 818.763.1397
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- November 21, 2009
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- A week after abruptly quitting his longtime job as a CNN television news host and commentator, Lou Dobbs said on Thursday he is considering career options including possible runs for the White House or U.S. Senate.
- ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton announces 1,000 new workplace audits to hold employers accountable for their hiring practices
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- November 19, 2009
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- Video: Sofia Vergara’s “Modern Family” Costar Trashes her on “Chelsea Lately”
- The Cuban band Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro can legitimately claim to be inventors of salsa. But it last played in the United States when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and there was no telling when it might be able to return — until the very slightest hint of a thaw in cultural relations between the United States and Cuba quietly brought the band to New York early this month.
- Mexico’s Drug Violence Gives Rise To Vigilantism
- The wave of crime besetting Puerto Rico seems to be out of control with 800 murders being committed here so far this year, but the island’s top police official says the problem does not fall exclusively within his department.
- The University of Panama indefinitely suspended classes on Wednesday after confrontations between students and police during a protest against alleged U.S. involvement in plans to build new military installations.
- There are 16 million children in immigrant families in the United States
- Over the last 3 years, high schools that received the lowest marks from the city have been the ones with the highest percentages of poor, black and Hispanic students, despite an evaluation system that was meant to equalize differences among student bodies, according to an analysis by The New York Times of school grades released this week.
- Who seriously wants the Cuban trade embargo?
- A legislator from El Paso has criticized proposed history and social studies standards for public schools as being unfair to Hispanics. – Rep. Norma Chavez raised the issue Wednesday in Austin before the State Board of Education.
- Farewell to an icon: Artist who tore at racism is buried at 99 – R.I.P. José Cisneros
- November 18, 2009
- Hispanics are 9% of the Virginia’s schoolchildren, but 5% of gifted students.
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- Analysis reveals driving out undocumented immigrants doesn’t bode well for congressional representation
- After accidental deportation, critics say immigration officials making mistakes – After a Salvadoran man was mistakenly deported, immigration rights activists have complained about toughened enforcement by authorities.
- Governor Deval Patrick urged Massachusetts residents today to avoid getting mired in “the usual debate” over illegal immigration as he gave his cabinet 90 days to craft a plan for better integrating all foreign-born residents into the state’s daily fabric.
- More Americans are playing tennis – The biggest increases were among Hispanics, with 32% more playing the game.
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- “They” Are “Us”: The Devastating Effects of Broken Immigration Policy on Children in Immigrant Families
- November 20, 2009
- Hispanic lawmakers say an old adversary, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, has his fingerprints all over a push to prohibit illegal immigrants from buying health insurance plans in a new market for people who don’t get insurance through their employers.
- Some U.S. Democrats see momentum building for an overhaul of immigration laws that would legalize millions of undocumented workers, but analysts say a crowded agenda and struggling economy may once again sink hopes for reform next year.
- The current global crisis will cause the number of poor people in Latin America to rise by 9 million to 189 million this year, the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean said in a report presented on Thursday.
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- Mexican migrants are spending more money on taxes in the United States than on the remittances they send home to relatives, according to a new study by Mexico’s largest bank, BBVA Bancomer.
- Ana Maria Perez Gonzalez, said to be the oldest woman in the world, died in Mexico this week. She was 119.
- Part of a Cuban blogger’s essay that advocates lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba was read aloud at a House Foreign Affairs committee hearing. – Yoani Sánchez
- November 19, 2009
- TOP Ten reasons you should watch Lopez tonight not Conan
- Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Report Finds Immigrants Hit Harder During Economic Downturn than Native-Born Workers
- After a 3 year trial of producing regionalized news for several top 10 Hispanic market stations via the Telemundo Production Center in Dallas, the network is reverting to producing local news. Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Phoenix and San Jose will once again have locally produced news.
- Nacional Records Sampler 2009 | The New Sounds Of Latin Music – 21 FREE mp3s over at Amazon – (cool!)
- Ironically, Latinos should be greatful to former CNN blowhard Lou Dobbs – commentary by Albor Ruiz
- When White Writers Do “Latino” Issues – It was chaos this week in the LA Weekly’s virtual mailroom, which received a deluge of reactionary attitude in regard to Christine Pelisek’s cover story “Chaos in the Casitas: Lawless, south of the border–style speakeasies get a grip on L.A.”
- More Than 60,000 Americans in 45 States Organize for Immigration Reform
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- Video: Senator Menendez Speaks on Behalf of Hispanic Farmers’ Discrimination Lawsuit + update
- November 18, 2009
- New Report: More Than 2 Million Hispanic Households With Children Face Hunger – Hispanic households with children experiencing very low food security up almost 50%
- On November 18 at 8:00 PM Eastern time/5:00 PM Pacific, all across the country people are hosting house parties with their families, friends, neighbors, churches, classmates and anyone else who supports comprehensive immigration reform for America.
- Video report of Latina forced to give birth while in chains in Maricopa County, AZ courtesy of Sheriff Joe Arpaio (en Español)
- California’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman told a group of supporters Tuesday that she is making an unprecedented effort to attract Latinos to the Republican party – in South El Monte
- Hundreds of defendants awaiting trial for violent crimes in Dallas County have been deported by federal immigration officials and then set free in their home countries. – The practice goes back to at least 1991 and includes the release of murder, kidnapping and child rape suspects.
- Environmentalists alarmed by Puerto Rico policies – Sweeping from lush mountain rain forests to pristine beaches, a corridor of land protected by Puerto Rico’s last governor hosts dozens of rare and endangered species and was championed by celebrities who helped fight off resort proposals. – Now new Gov. Luis Fortuno has revoked the reserve as part of a drive to bring jobs and investment for the U.S. territory’s struggling economy. And activists see a broader pattern of looser protection for the island’s environment.
- Deporting undocumented students affects the chances for legal return if Congress doesn’t address it in immigration reform bill
- Eleventh-hour criticism is arising over President Obama’s nomination for United States attorney in northern Iowa of a prosecutor who had a leading role in the criminal cases against hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested in a May 2008 raid at a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. – Stephanie Rose
- From a group calling themselves Electronic Civil Disobedience comes the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a simple mobile application intended to aid and abet border-crossers from Mexico to the United States by mapping the safest routes to take. – This GPS app is built to work on the cheapest cell phones available.
- Report from America’s Voice: The New Constituents… How Latinos Will Shape Congressional Apportionmention After the 2010 Census
- November 16, 2009
- 15th annual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza in San Antonio – more than 1,000 professional & student musicians participating – 8-day festival of mariachi competitions, workshops, presentations, serenades & concerts attracts more than 15,000 visitors annually.
- Money Trickles North as Mexicans Help Relatives – reverse remittances from Mexico
- Scarlet “A” will dominate immigration reform rhetoric – Greg Tejeda on immigration reform & Janet Napolitano’s speech
- The first Texas Hispanic legislators didn’t want to go public when they organized some 40 years ago out of fear they might be considered “un-American.” – Today, the Mexican American Legislative Caucus (MALC) is growing in influence — and raising record amounts of money — as Texas’ population turns increasingly Hispanic.
- Supporters of tough U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government have given more than $10 million to congressional campaigns over the last seven years
- Oregon universities try to recruit more Latino students – In 2007, Latinos made up nearly 12% of the 12th-grade class and less than 6% of freshmen in the university system. About 20% of first-graders that year were Latino.
- The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.
- Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day (this past Friday) in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.
- Sonia Sotomayor unwittingly adds celebrity touch to Supreme Court
- One of the Republican Party’s most respected and relied-upon consultants has serious reservations about two the party’s biggest names. – Alex Castellanos, a conservative media strategist and regular presence on CNN, raised questions of Sarah Palin’s viability for office and took major swipes at Florida Senate candidate Charlie Crist
