Music in Buenos Aires

La Bomba de la Tiempo is huge in Buenos Aires. Growing up in Southern California there is a label and scene for everything. Here it is not like that and people recognize what is good. They enjoy music regardless of what the fuck their hair looks like or some compulsive urge to connect music and identity. This group, La Bomba de la Tiempo, is an improvisational polyrhymic percussion band, conducted and orchestrated to move people. I have only seen them twice but each time I have had a great time and been pretty amazed at the connection between the music, the players and the audience.
A lot of tourists and Americans go to see them because they play every monday night at this wherehouse, that is shown above, and it is advertised in their little pocket tourist guide. So I can only handle a night of "Bomba" every so often. (A lot of tourists use Buenos Aires as their playground becasue it is so cheap and it gets annoying when you want to go see a band and some dudes from Ohio that are studying Spanish here, with Dave Mathews band t-shirts on come rolling in to the place and get shitfaced and make the other Americans, like myself, look as if we were raised on a moron farm.) At least there are no bros here..the Argetnine version of a bro is a tough football/rugby dude, but I think their IQ is still pretty high compared to the bro-anderthal. They also rock a version of the faux-hawk mullet (that was huge a few years back in California) but it is more Argentine and worn with a bad attitude.