Craft Recordings have been on a roll of late, following 2021's excellently presented Ornette Coleman boxset, Genesis of Genius, with 2023's Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series and imminent ...

Following on the heels of several previous reissues of groundbreaking albums from trombonist Willie Colon, Craft brings us The Big Break—Lan Gran Fuga. The sixth Fania album from Colón would also be ...

The new EP remixes six classic songs from the Fania catalog and features legends such Hector Lavoe, Ray Barreto, Tito Puente and Celia Cruz, among others. The inspiration for the new album was the… By ...

There was a time when Fania Records was the most transcendent label in Latin music — hailed as the Motown of salsa. From its meteoric rise in late ’60s New York to its triumphant empire of sound ...

As previously announced, The FADER is embarking on a yearlong remix project with the legendary Latin label Fania, wherein we enlist some of our favorite musicians to reinterpret classics from their ...

Thanks to a new 50th-anniversary reissue, Willie Colón and Hector Lavoe's Cosa Nuestra debuts at No. 3 on the Tropical Albums chart (dated Oct… By Pamela Bustios Sr. Charts & Data Analyst (Latin & ...

Hits by two late Latin music icons whose ballads and salsa songs are constants in playlists across generations have been inducted into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress.

Maybe it was your uncle with the weird salsa moves, or your older cousin, the one who danced like a man possessed, who told you about their salsa heroes — Mongo Santamaría, Johnny Pacheco, Cali Alemán ...

Its founders went from flogging LPs from a car to defining a genre in the late 60s. As a box set is released, manager Harvey Averne and star Joe Bataan recall those heady days in East Harlem The ...