Corridos Ketamina’s deep-fried outlaw music

Corridos Ketamina’s deep-fried outlaw music

The California/Phoenix duo want to start a multi-cultural movement with their new take on regional Mexican sounds. The premise was simple and tongue in cheek: “Let’s make the first corrido about doing K.” The idea wasn’t entirely unprecedented; the corrido, a form of Mexican regional music that dates back at least as far as the…

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Pino Palladino and Blake Mills are still chasing the “challenging and irresistible”

Pino Palladino and Blake Mills are still chasing the “challenging and irresistible”

The prolific session players turned frontmen talk subverting expectations, inverting harmonies, and producing for themselves (instead of the world’s biggest pop stars). Pino Palladino (above) and Blake Mills   Justin Daashuur Hopkins / Luke Sargent Apollo Frequencies is a series exploring sounds that seem to come from another world. In this week’s edition, a dispatch…

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