News & Updates

WFMU Record Fair 5/1-5/3

The mack daddy of USA record fairs is moving to Brooklyn this year! Catch the WFMU show this coming weekend at the Expo center. Andujar & Studebaker Hawk will be there selling. Come and say hello!Details here. Studebaker Hawk’s Discogs page can be found here. And be sure to catch the Drums & Dreams exhibit up at Bronx Music Heritage Center. The opening is Saturday. Peace & Rhythm fully representing!

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Drums & Dreams exhibit at Bronx Music Heritage Center

A joint exhibit between Charlie Rosario and Peace & Rhythm’s Pablo Yglesias is now showing at the Bronx Music Heritage Center, with an opening reception on May 2, with music by DJ Andujar and Charlie Rosario with Los Rumberos Callejeros. More info at Bongohead’s blog. “I just put up a new art show with my friend Charlie Rosario last week in the Bronx at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Lab (1303 Luis Niñé Boulevard). We hung our work side by side, and collaborated on a shrine to the great conga players, percussionists, and rumberos of Cuban and Puerto Rican origin...

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Ola Fresca "Elixir" Album Release Party at DROM 6/10

Release party for the brand spanking new full-length album by Ola Fresca!! Jose Conde‘s band has morphed into a hard-driving salsa unit and have been getting the dancers on the floor at every stop the past year. Come and celebrate the poppin’ new album Elixir at Drom, 85 Ave A, Manhattan on Wednesday, June 10. Also appearing will be Roman Diaz Rumba Ensemble, Ann Mazzocca‘s folklore-inspired choreography and DJ Turmix spinning salsa and boogaloo straight off of classic vinyl! Ola Fresca will be playing several gigs in support of the album and Peace & Rhythm will be pressing up a...

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DJ Bongohead's "Rough Guide To Latin Rare Groove, Vol. 2"

Check out this radio piece on the new compilation for the The Rough Guide To Latin Rare Groove, Vol. 2, compiled by Peace & Rhythm's own DJ Bongohead, reviewed recently by NPR's Milo Miles on Fresh Air.

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Announcing: Big Mean Sound Machine/Super Hi-Fi split 7" Coming Soon!

Peace & Rhythm has got some hot new wax coming your way this spring & summer! We just sent off the next one to the pressing plant. We're happy to announce a forthcoming split 7" featuring a song each by Brooklyn dub band Super Hi-Fi and Ithaca-based afrofunk juggernaut Big Mean Sound Machine. Two earth-rumbling cuts by two heavy groove bands on one DJ-friendly platter, complete with a picture sleeve and two-sided insert. 800 press. The two bands will be playing some shows together this summer, so get in touch if you'd like to book them. And don't hesitate to...

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