For nearly twenty years, the founding members of Grupo Fantasma have set themselves apart with the quality and inventiveness of their work. It’s a rare enough feat to successfully run a big group (the ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify and Apple Music playlists at the bottom of the page. The album is a perfectly ...

Known as the funkiest, finest and hardest working latin orchestra to come of the United States in the last decade, Grupo Fantasma’s trademark sound has translated comprehensively on their new album ...

The thirteen new tracks on American Music Vol. VII celebrate Grupo Fantasma's first studio album in five years as well as the nineteenth anniversary of Austin's preeminent Tex-Mex party band. In ...

The Austin band's raucous, good-time mix of funk, cumbia and soul forms a sound that's built to last — always evolving, but always joyful, too. Note: NPR's audio for First Listens comes down after the ...

Grupo Fantasma found their way back to Houston last night to “rock the green” for the third installation of the Capital One Bank Thursday concert series at Discovery Green. Billed as “hip-shaking, ...

For most of their two-decade career, the nine-piece Grammy-winning Austin Latin-funk-rock ensemble Grupo Fantasma has avoided political topics. They’ve focused instead on creating some of the most ...

Back in January 2018, the Austin-based band Grupo Fantasma headed toward El Paso to record an album in a studio near the Rio Grande. The group settled in a high-desert destination studio in a Texas ...

If you don't know about Austin, Texas latin funk orchestra Grupo Fantasma yet, then you just haven't been paying attention. Three dates into its summer tour -- Thursday, July 16 -- the group plays at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 29—The Brownsville Latin Jazz Festival is now the Brownsville Latin Music Festival, and it happens on Nov. 8 at the Jacob ...

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The nine-piece Latin funk band's new album is a perfectly executed bi-cultural statement, made for the millions of people who love mariachi as... Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the ...