Here's a peak at the talents of filmmaker Rodrigo Balseca Carmona, an amigo and co-conspirator of Peace & Rhythm. Inspired by Leon Gast's "Our Latin Thing", this documusic video tours us through the culturally rich neighborhood of Washington Heights, NYC by way of a boy running through the barrio/hood. We get a peek at the diversity of daily and nightly life of this Dominican diaspora fused with an equally dynamic instrumental which mixes the old sounds of Nuyorican boogaloo and salsa with classic hip hop beats. https://vimeo.com/119055693

Check out the latest on the Bongohead blog, a piece about Bay Area based electro-cumbia party man Roger Más. Check the link here.

What records made your ears happy?

We’ll be spending our New Years Eve at the ZuZu in Cambridge and we hope you’ll join us if you are in the Boston / Cambridge Area. Advance Tix are only $15 and $20 at the door. CELEBRATORY BOOGIE DOWN WHISKEY BARONS STYLE TIMELESS & GLOBAL >> FUNK / SOUL / DISCO / AFRO / LATIN / HOUSE / ROCK & ROLLL

DJs Andujar & Bongohead will bring their Rumba Psicodélica party back to the Quarters on Saturday, December 6th. These two tropi-heads will be spinning from their expansive vinyl direct to The Quarters Sound System. South American psych rock, messed-up cumbias, dark dubs, hard Afro rock, Cuban experimental, Trópicalia, salsa loca, spookaloo, tropical funk, Caribbean electro-derangement, Ethio-groove and other borderless haze. Join us 8pm-1am at The Quarters Saturday 12/6. No cover. Come play some arcade games, drink some brews, eat some food and get your brain mangled. Brought to you by The Quarters and Peace & Rhythm. Poster by Sightlab.