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The Latin Grammys have announced their first cohort of performers. On Tuesday morning, the Latin Recording Academy revealed that Pepe Aguilar, Gloria Estefan, Los Tigres Del Norte, Carín León, and 2025 Person of the Year Raphael, among others, will play during the Nov. 13 ceremony in Las Vegas.

Along with Aguilar, Tigres, and León, Ivan Cornejo, Kakalo, and DannyLux will represent música mexicana as performers at the ceremony. Rounding out the lineup are Spanish star Aitana, Brazilian musician Liniker, and Colombian group Morat.

Aside from Person of the Year Raphael, each performer...

Bad Bunny leads this year’s Latin Grammy Awards nominations with 12 including Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year.

Actually, Bad Bunny has multiple nominations in some of those categories. His “Baile Inolvidable” and “DtMF” are up for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. See the list below.

The nominations for the 26th Annual Latin Grammy Awards were announced today by The Latin Recording Academy. Also announced were the additions of a new field (Visual Media) and two categories (Best Music For Visual Media and Best Roots Song). The inaugural group of nominees for the Best Music For Visual Media category includes Cabra, Federico Jusid, Pedro Osuna, Camilo Sanabria and Gustavo Santaolalla.

Nominees in the Best New Artist category are Alleh, Annasofia, Yerai Cortés, Juliane Gamboa, Camila Guevara, Isadora, Alex Luna, Paloma Morphy, Sued Nunes and Ruzzi.

The 26th Annual Latin...

The first installment in a loose trilogy that includes 1967’s Entranced Earth and 1969’s Antonio das Mortes, Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil nonetheless stands alone as a benchmark for the difference between polemic and propaganda. If Rocha’s Italian contemporaries Sergio Corbucci and Damiano Damiani devised the Zapata western to turn the traditional western inside out—critiquing rather than valorizing imperialism—then Black God, White Devil might be called a Lampião western, after the folk hero of Brazilian social banditry who casts a long shadow over the film. More than allegorizing third-world revolutionary and decolonial struggles, Rocha stages a mythmaking intervention into Brazilian history.

As its English title suggests, Black God, White Devil is a film of two halves, each of which slots into a separate western subgenre, and could probably satisfy as a film in its own right. Taken as a whole, though, the film incites a...

The first installment in a loose trilogy that includes 1967’s Entranced Earth and 1969’s Antonio das Mortes, Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil nonetheless stands alone as a benchmark for the difference between polemic and propaganda. If Rocha’s Italian contemporaries Sergio Corbucci and Damiano Damiani devised the Zapata western to turn the traditional western inside out—critiquing rather than valorizing imperialism—then Black God, White Devil might be called a Lampião western, after the folk hero of Brazilian social banditry who casts a long shadow over the film. More than allegorizing third-world revolutionary and decolonial struggles, Rocha stages a mythmaking intervention into Brazilian history.

As its English title suggests, Black God, White Devil is a film of two halves, each of which slots into a separate western subgenre, and could probably satisfy as a film in its own right. Taken as a whole, though, the film incites a...