Singer Ricardo Arjona Yesterday, the organizers of the Telethon that will be carried out this Friday and Saturday for the earthquake victims announced that Ricardo Arjona will be one of the guests for the crusade. However, the Guatemalan singer, who recently sang for the Viña Festival 2010, is not going to be able to attend due to his compromise, a concert in Argentina on March 6th. The production... 

Viña del Mar Festival 2010 - Photo Courtesy "laguiadesantiago" “El Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar” (The International Song Festival of Viña del Mar) is a musical festival that is put together every year during the month of February in the city of Viña del Mar, Chile. The long name can be simply reduced to “El Festival de Viña” (Viña Festival). It began... 

Jorge Guerra as Pin Pon The Pin Pon Foundation will commemorate the first year since the national actor Jorge Guerra suddenly passed away. This free event will take place on La Reina Cultural Center, on January 31st at 12:00 pm. Different artists will pay homage to the actor’s memory, some of them include: Inti Illimani, Rebeca Godoy & Grupo, Papo Dintrans, actors Humberto Duvauchelle, Juan Alcayaga,... 

The Carnival On January 22nd, 23rd and 24th the best of national and international arts will gather in Valparaíso. Carnaval Cultural de Valparaíso will honor Chile’s bicentenary as well as the bicentenary of other Latin American countries, that is to say, 200 years since they had declared their independence. There are three different places where the carnival’s activities will take place: the... 

NEW YORK, NY; LOS ANGELES, CA; and LONDON, ENGLAND (JANUARY "Hope for Haiti Now" in collaboration with George Clooney 19, 2010) — “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief,” today announced its lineup of superstar musical performances.   The global telethon will feature performances by Wyclef Jean, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Shakira,... 

I attended my first rock concert when I was 13. On April 1 1984 my dad drove me downtown to Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto and stood with me in the lineup outside, behind a guy clinging to the stadium wall with vomit running down the front of his faded jeans and leather jacket. Bits of macaroni stuck to the toes of his motorcycle boots. Uniformed cops strode the outer reaches of the sidewalk. The squad... 

The French Bring Their Dance Justice to the Andes Santiaguinos, get ready for a dance party the likes of which this city hasn’t seen in ages! Those in the know about indie electronic dance music (and with the 25 luca in hand to cover the entrance fee) are in for a treat this weekend: JUSTICE is coming to town. The French electronic duo is best known for their remix of Simian’s track “Never... 

American rock band, “The Killers” brought down the house this past Sunday at Santiago’s Movistar arena.  From opener “Human” to closing encore “When You Were Young”, the band played a solid and well-produced show. Happy Birthday Guadalupe The Killers were in Santiago to promote their third album, “Day & Age” – and it was a charmer.  Front man Brandon Flowers, 27, proved... 

www.myspace.com/locoonline In the summer of 1994, for reasons too depressing to mention, I woke up on a piss-stained, cushionless sofa covered in cat hair in an anarchist squat house on Broadway Street in Vancouver. I’d spent previous days playing my guitar on the corner of Granville and Robinson. On this very same corner was a particularly rabid evangelist street preacher who lashed out at... 

“These kids are totally consumed by consumerism, materialism and stupidism, and it’s our job to get the message to them.” – Mauro, Guitarist, Nada Nuevo Lucho’s taxi lurks into the early morning Santiago traffic leaving Pudahuel airport. The gringo in the back absorbs his first sights of downtown Santiago at Republica and the corner of the Alameda – mangy street dogs lunging...