MUSIC

CUMBIA VORTEX: Son Rompe Pera/Meridian Brothers/Milagro Verde

FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2023
6:30 PM

Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn

$20
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Meridian Brothers aren’t only Fake Salsa, they’re Fake Cumbia, too (they’re also one of this List’s favorite bands, anywhere). Mexican Cumbia fusioneers Son Rempe Pera are pretty great, too. As for Brooklyn’s Milagro Verde, well, they’re Fake Chicha (Cumbia’s surf cousin) — but not Fake in the conceptual way Meridian Brothers are. They’re trying to be good, though.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: All the mead you want at Honey’s (I recently realized I’ve known one of the proprietors since he was a young boy — but we’re not here to talk about how old I am!).