The Townies are the alpha and omega of the Trinidad punk scene, if only because the quartet is the sole punk band in the southern Colorado hamlet of about 8,300 people. “It’s non-existent,” guitarist ...

Wally Wallace loves Trinidad, and it’s not for lack of trying to love other places. The 33-year-old grew up visiting his family’s cabin between Buena Vista and Salida. He attended college in Durango ...

The trumpets blared, the drums picked up the pulse-bumping, syncopated calypso beat, and the towering man in the red silk pants pranced out on the stage, his great eyes wide, his mouth an elongated O ...

Parang music is a genre of folk music that is performed around Christmastime. Traditionally sung in Spanish, parang was introduced to Trinidad and Tobago from Venezuela, but the music has deeper roots ...

KCRW DJs delve into the newly digitized music archive. With this new system, it is now as easy for DJs to play rare and obscure pieces as the latest releases. Listen as they explore the old and the ...