Festival Nrmal
How Festival Nrmal Took Cues from Business Conferences to Become Mexico's Most Ambitious DIY Institution
The Mexico City festival's creative director Alfonso Muriedas explains how the fest is all about starting conversations.
Premiere – Promise Land ‘Faces With Faces’
Johann Rashid returns with his electronic project that he describes an excuse to "to practice handstands, roundhouse kicks, or the place to just yell at the people I know or don't know.”
Introducing In Swarm Featuring Members of Eastlink and Sick Feeling
Born in a Costa Rican basement the sound of In Swarm is dark, dense and intense.
Watch Kirin J. Callinan's Teaser for His Upcoming Sugar Mountain Show "Terrible Love"
The compelling and charismatic performer returns to Sugar Mountain.
Voices from the Mexican Underground: Community, Commerce, and Festival Nrmal
Before Festival Nrmal was a reality, it was an idea—the desire of a few friends to create something inspiring when forces outside their control were threatening to fragment their community, inciting fear and alienating individuals.
Voices from the Mexican Underground: Spreading Independent Music in Mexico
We talk to Christian Michel, the Vice Director of Albino.Mx.
Voices from the Mexican Underground: Bocanegra and Baby Nelson & the Philistines from Guadalajara
Meet Alonso Mangosta Esquinca, singer for two of Guadalajara's most exciting bands.
Voces del Underground Mexicano: San Pedro El Cortez de Tijuana
“La gente hace cosas por el amor a la música y al arte. Es un gran rato, pero lo tenemos que hacer–todos juntos.”
Voices from the Mexican Underground: Festival Nrmal, Continued
We chat with Luis Ceron about the Mexico City independent music scene.
Voices from the Mexican Underground: Festival Nrmal, Part 2
"There is no such thing as a back stage... There are no barriers at all."
Voices from the Mexican Underground: Festival Nrmal, Part One
"Sometimes someone won’t get what I’m doing, and I’m okay with that. I don’t want perfection. I don’t want everybody to love me. I want to make some fucking noise, and maybe somebody will love it."