Mercury News, California — Also, Buena Vista Social Club brings farewell tour to Bay Area. more info

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L.A. Times - Entertainment — The band members of Buena Vista Social Club are headed back to the big screen to say goodbye. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets to the Nicki Minaj show at Barclays Center go on sale today at noon. Tickets to see My Morning Jacket and St. Vincent as part of the XPoNential Music Festival at  Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, N.J. go on today at... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets to the Nicki Minaj show at Barclays go on venue presale today at noon. Use presale code BARCLAYS. Tickets to the Laura Marling show at Town Hall go on AmEx presale today at noon. Orquesta Buena Vista Social... more info

Stereogum — In 1996, nearly 50 years after the closing of the Buena Vista Social Club in Havana, Cuba, a band of the same name was formed by Cuban musician Juan de Marcos González and American guitarist Ry Cooder with Cuban musicians who had performed at the or... more info

Nialler9 — Pic: Ibeyi in the wilds of Kerry on the set of Other Voices. The wonderful French-Cuban twins Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz aka Ibeyi have the music in their blood. Their father, Anga Díaz, was a well-known Cuban percussionist who played with Buena V... more info

Stereogum — Ibeyi is the duo of two twin sisters, the French-Cuban daughters of Buena Vista Social Club percussionist Anga Díaz. Their video for “River,” which we posted last year, was the sort of simple, haunting piece of work that sticks with you. The ban... more info

Time — Ry Cooder, who recorded in Havana, says he expected openness between the U.S. and Cuba, but is optimistic nonetheless more info

Stereogum — The two members of the duo Ibeyi are the French-Cuban twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz, daugthers of the Cuban percussionist and Buena Vista Social Club member Anga Díaz. Together, they sing in English and Yoruba over skeletal, state-of-the... more info