Sometimes reporters reach for that tongue-in-cheek phrase that they think listeners will understand, and it offends instead. On May 8, freelance reporter Banning Eyre reviewed the new album by a ...

The International Accordion Festival has never been this psychedelic: Chicha Libre, a Brooklyn-based band of musicians from France, Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico, will debut in San Antonio on Sunday ...

Chicha Libre is a bona-fide phenomenon. Like what L.A.s own Very Be Careful has been doing with vallenato and cumbia, Chicha Libre is mining an awesome and particular sound that existed in a vacuum ...

Hailing from the streets of Brooklyn, Chicha Libre is a mixture of Venezuelan and Mexican- American musicians that are known for their psychedelic cumbia-inspired rhythms. Keeping fresh to their Latin ...

The latest from the Brooklyn-based sextet Chicha Libre is the appropriately titled “Canibalismo,” the follow-up to its 2008 debut, “Sonido Amazonico.” On this sophomore release the group takes its cue ...

Back in 2008, Chicha Libre launched the first psychedelic cumbia and chicha wave in North America with its debut album Sonido Amazonico (Barbès Records). The album was a tribute to 70's Peruvian ...

Olivier Conan was doing what he always does when he discovered Peruvian "Chicha" music while vacationing in South America a few years ago: He was looking for new music that might change his life. What ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Imagine hiking in the Peruvian Andes and finding a group of chicha musicians: ...

A recent music review sought to describe the Peruvian sound of the Brooklyn band Chicha Libre. Some listeners, however, didn't find the "lowlife"... Sometimes reporters reach for that tongue-in-cheek ...