{"id":15368,"date":"2018-03-19T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2018\/03\/19\/sxsw-2018-recap-hip-hop-latin-folk-and-mexican-barbecue\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T21:35:00","slug":"sxsw-2018-recap-hip-hop-latin-folk-and-mexican-barbecue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/sxsw-2018-recap-hip-hop-latin-folk-and-mexican-barbecue\/","title":{"rendered":"SXSW 2018 Recap: Hip Hop, Latin Folk and Mexican Barbecue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 2018 South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas has come to an end. But before the week-long fest finished, Alt.Latino<\/em><\/a>host Felix Contreras and NPR Music hip-hop correspondent Rodney Carmichael met up at a barbecue joint in Austin to dish about their favorite performances from the week. <\/p>\n

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“This is, like, my new favorite hip-hop artist right now,” Carmichael says. “She has this song called ‘Mumbo Jumbo’ … that she laid down rough vocals for and she never went back and cleaned them up. It sounds so good, and her energy on stage was so incredible.”<\/p>\n

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“They do a combination of Nicaraguan folk music mixed with jazz, mixed with ska, mixed with a bit of rock,” Contreras says. “They blew the roof of this place.”<\/p>\n

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“She’s up on the stage; this tall, thin, regal-looking black woman with an afro that adds another five feet to her stature,” Carmichael says. “It’s just a mix of soul and funk and classical thrown in.”<\/p>\n

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Hear the full conversation at the audio link. <\/em><\/p>\n