It’s been over a decade since I attended the big Rock Al Parque (Rock the Park) in Bogota, Colombia, but this time, I had backstage access as my pals Los Suziox, were headlining the 2nd evening of the show. I’m impressed with the organizational skills of the folks who put this on because it’s three […]
After way too many years being ignored by the Rock Al Parque organizers in Bogota, my mates from Medellin, Colombia “Los Suziox” were finally invited. The response from the tens of thousands of fans was predictable for one of Colombia’s and indeed, Latin America’s most revered alternative punk rockers. See for yourself. My only question […]
I don’t like plugging random punk shows and events too often because there are so many and our readers are from so many different locations it isn’t useful to everyone. But considering such a large % of our readers are from Colombia and Latin America I thought it might interest people to know about […]
Not too many weeks ago, we wrote on this very blog, how Rock Al Parque, Bogota Colombia’s big music festival and one of the biggest music festivals in all of South America, was holding a competition among a group of local Colombian bands to see which would garner the most votes and hence be […]
Rock al Parque in Bogota, Colombia is one huge annual music festival. We covered it in 2010 and it was an amazing experience to see 70,000 or so punk, metal and rock fans enjoying all kinds of rock music from around the world. I dare say it’s one of the biggest festivals in all […]
July 15th, 2001 – NYC I’ve always been intrigued about the relationship between Ska and Punk. Ska had a real heyday back in the 1990s and early 2000s with bands like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Sublime selling tons of records. Of course, this band called “No Doubt” burst on the scene but I can’t […]
MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA: July 7th, 2010 I promised you video from our coverage of Rock Al Parque in Bogota, and here goes our first clip. This clip features the very popular punk/hardcore band from Medellin, “Fertil Miseria” performing on July 4th at the big 3 day festival. Fertil Miseria was just my 2nd interview when filming […]