Festival Estéreo Picnic 2023: ‘There’s this great musical heritage in Colombia and it should be more respected.’ Salt Cathedral talk culture and music

With Festival Estéreo Picnic just around the corner, we’re covering the local bands set to light up the event. Today it’s the turn of Salt...

Festival Estéreo Picnic 2023: Lalo Cortés is bringing jazz back

“We need to rethink jazz.” It can be a marmite genre, but soul singer Lalo Cortés is leading the charge to redefine rolo jazz for a new...

Festival Estéreo Picnic 2023: Dawer X Damper = A Bright Future

We’re always most excited by the local talent at Festival Estéreo Picnic, and today we’re talking to AfroFuturist stars...

Festival Estéreo Picnic 2023: Felipe Orjuela – “We need a Colombian invasion around the world playing cumbia”

Felipe recording with La Estudiantina Electrónica. Photo courtesy of Páramo Felipe Orjuela wants the world to put on dancin’ shoes and hit the...

Festival Estéreo Picnic 2023: Ha$loPablito, local hip-hop for local people

Our series on local bands at Festival Estéreo Picnic 2023 continues with Ha$loPablito, a hip-hop project that thinks global and acts...

Petro vs. Rodolfo: A sporting chance? How Colombia’s presidential candidates compare on sports and culture

We look at both candidates’ positions on a range of key issues. Find out here what Gustavo Petro and Rodolfo Hernández have to say about...

Petro vs. Rodolfo: How Colombia’s presidential candidates compare on education.

We’re looking at both candidates’ positions on a range of key issues. Find out here what Gustavo Petro and Rodolfo Hernández have to say about...

Oli’s big topic: You’re not Batman

Taking the law into your own hands isn’t the sign of a functioning society. Batman takes vigilante justice to the next level. We’ve all...

Oli’s Big Topic: Have you become a bitter foreigner?

[caption id="attachment_27838" align="aligncenter" width="696"] Oli Pritchard starts his new column as he means to go on - direct, honest, and maybe...

Colombian cycling reaches end of 2017 season

[caption id="attachment_24195" align="alignnone" width="950"] Rigoberto Urán claims another victory in already successful season Photo: Comité...