The Club Fonograma staff have reunited to recap the Best Iberoamerican (Latin America + Iberian) music of the decade. This project consists of essays from ex-Club Fonograma writers and friends, along with a full list of our top 100 songs and top 50 albums of the decade.
K-Pop Goes West
by Blanca Méndez The decade when Latinx K-pop fans saw their worlds collide. |
Helado Negro and The Music That Let Us Exhale
by Julyssa Lopez How Roberto Lange used his music to give listeners a place to think, heal, and recharge. |
The World According to Natalia Lafourcade
by Andrew Casillas What her rise to pop icon status says about our past, our present, and our future. |
Generación Ruidosón: Creating the Sound of the Border for a New Decade
by Reuben Torres On ruidosón, Mexican identity, and the ghosts of a generation. |
Club Fonograma, the Ungovernable Generation, and the Pop Insurrection: A Decade in Revolt by Ze Puga Understanding the socio-political (and highly danceable) last decade of protest pop. |
The Brief Cuban-American “Gozadera” by Stefanie Fernández Cubatón in the age of U.S.-Cuba normalization. |
El Embrujo Inconfundible de Mi Sol by Verónica Bayetti Flores On Rita Indiana's diasporic return anthem "La hora de volvé." |
Déjenme Llorar: Thank-You Letters to the Songs that Held Me 2009-2019 by Phoebe Smolin Club Fonograma and the songs that are my favorite places and my sweetest friends. |
How Women Reclaimed a Space for Themselves in this Decade of Música Urbana by Lucas Villa A post-Ivy Queen generation fights for representation in a male-dominated genre. |
The Night Dënver Gave Me a Future by Richard Villegas How Música, Gramática, Gimnasia changed my life. |
CLUB QUE(R)ER by Sam Rodgers The Latinx LGBTQIA+ artists who globalized queer culture. |
How Spain Turned to Música Urbana in the 2010s by Pierre Lestruhaut Trap music found a new outpost in the Old World. |