Americans who still think of Latin music as mariachi bands and gyrating Ricky Martins and Shakiras might want to lend a closer ear to the genre. This country's Hispanic population isn't just growing, it's growing more diverse. More and more unique musical styles are being gobbled up, and that should come as good news to alternative gringos hoping to spruce up their castellano. This year's Latin-music highlights come from all over the Spanish-speaking map. We'll start in the farthest geographic
As might be expected, I receive some pretty great text messages from random folks in town, either looking for show times or wondering what's going on at night. However, I received one last week that took the cake for random:"you don't happen to know any local mariachi musicians, do you?"And for once, I was stumped. Said texter's dad is looking for a group for a Cinco de Mayo shindig and has come up empty. And so I turned to you, A to Z readers: Do you know any? If so, email me and I'll pass alon
