Seasons & Episodes
The Rebellion
Latin America's rock movement was sparked by Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba" and the Beatles but found its own voice in youth
The Repression
When the band Peace and Love began chanting, "We got the power!" at the first rock festival in Mexico in 1971, the gover
Music in Color
After the fall of the Argentine dictatorship in 1983 and the Mexico City earthquake in 1985, rock explodes with ingenuit
Rock in Our Own Language
Argentina's Soda Stereo was the first all-hemispheric hitmakers, followed by Mexico's Caifanes and Los Prisioneros from
One Continent
Mexico's Café Tacvba fuses rock and folk traditions while Aterciopelados, rising with MTV Latin America, does the same
A New Era
Anger about social injustice infuses Latin American rock after the Zapatista uprising, paving the way for reggaeton and