When the dust settles, Babasónicos will probably be considered one of the fundamental rock bands to come out of Argentina, no small feat if you consider that country —as I do— to have produced the best rock canon after the United States and Great Britain. That’s why when I had the chance to interview two of his members, Diego Rodríguez and Diego Tuñón, I started by asking why were they not more popular in this country. But they disagreed with one of the premises of my question.
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José Simián (1975) is a New York-based bilingual marketer, content strategist and editor. His articles and columns on politics, media and culture have been published by the New York Daily News, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Sports Illustrated Latino, Billboard en Español, Latina, Qué Pasa, Etiqueta Negra, La Tercera and El Mercurio. He is also the host and producer of Contraportada, a weekly interview segment with Latino artists and intellectuals on 24-hour news cable station NY1 Noticias, and Executive Editor of Manero. Before becoming a writer, José worked as a lawyer (JD Universidad de Chile, 2002; LLM Columbia University, 2005) and taught Jurisprudence and Law and Literature in Chile. He lives in Brooklyn.
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