Salsa, Timba and Rumba are traditional and popular in Cuba but there's a whole other, Cuban alternative music scene that's worth learning about.
Author - Alejandro Suárez Placeres
Alejandro Suárez Placeres is a fifth-year Philosophy student at the University of Havana. He is the cofounder and editor of Proyecto and Revista Creativa Manifiesto, an independent Cuban literary and art publication. He enjoys literary creation, especially poetry, short stories, and philosophical essays. Ale is also a lover of music as well as a film aficionado.
Here's some new music released to the Cuban rock scene by this young Indie band riding the Indie Rock genre's popularity surge.
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