We are pleased to present our 35th installment of Sound Advice featuring C-Monster.  This mix was lovingly crafted by C-Monster and San Suzie, the brain trust behind the arts and culture blog C-Monster.net. C-Mon, otherwise known as Carolina A. Miranda in real life, is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, who covers a variety of important-sounding stuff. San Suzie, a.k.a. Rosa Lowinger, is an L.A.-based sculpture conservator and author of “Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Night Club.” (Buy it.)

Sound Advice 35 – C-Monster

01 Quizas, quizas, quizas  -  Sarita Montiel
02 Arrancame la vida  -  Toña la Negra
03 Amor y más amor  -  Lucha Reyes
04 Estás acabando  -  Celeste Mendoza
05 Sopita en botella  -  Celia Cruz
06 Rata de dos patas  -  Paquita la del Barrio
07 Puro Teatro  -  La Lupe
08 Paloma Negra  -  Chavela Vargas
09 A Lucha Reyes  -  Eva Ayllón
10 Veinte años  -  Maria Teresa Vera
11 A mi que/El Manisero  -  Lucrecia (with Paquito d’Rivera)
12 Bamboleo  -  Carmen Miranda

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A note about the mix:

This is a tribute to all the old school (and old school-style) Latin crooners (all girls!) who inspire us to be totally fierce. We’ve baptized it, “When You Want to Bitch-Slap Someone With a Chancla.” In it, we’ve got a singer who stabbed her man (Celeste Mendoza), another who predicted her own death (Lucha Reyes), a performer who trash talks men in her lyrics (Paquita la de del Barrio) and a an entertainer who ended up homeless, then became born again (La Lupe). There are legends (Celia Cruz, Carmen Miranda, Chavela Vargas) and a coupla contemporaries (Lucrecia, Eva Ayllón). Put all these ladies together in a room and you’d have more big-hair wigs, lamé ruffles and bright nail tips than even Lady GaGa would know what to do with. Our suggestion: pick up a quality bottle of tequila or rum, then turn the stereo up to 11. Enjoy. xox, C-Mon & San Suzie