The Idiot’s Guide to Smart People: ‘Music’ (video)
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View ArticleIMMI is all about the ‘Music’ (music video)
From Argentina to New York, IMMI‘s brand new video is all about the Music. PREVIOUSLY ON IMMI: IMMI: ‘Immigrants’ are just regular peeps (music video)
View ArticleMariachi wedding band plays ‘Super Mario Bros.’ theme (videos)
It’s not every day mariachis dressed in white play the theme from the classic Nintendo (NES) game Super Mario Bros; you don’t get married every day either. This musical gift, according to the...
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Happy Birthday Ritchie Valens, Pocho Pride of Pacoima (music videos)
Happy 73rd birthday, dead Ritchie Valens, born this day in 1941. Valens, from the L.A. suburb of Pacoima, was born Richard Steven Valenzuela and some consider him the father of Chicano rock. Pocho...
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El Conjunto Nueva Ola vs. A-Ha: ‘Take On Me’ (music videos)
A 1985 A-Ha award-winning music video gets cumbia-nated and lucha-fied in this just-released re-make from hometown heroes El Conjunto Nueva Ola. It’s not Take On Me, they say. It’s Taco Me. Look for...
View ArticleOverdub, multi window madness: Brazil, the musical (video)
YouTuber Dan Newbie plays bottles, pans, pots and salt shakers, overdubs his nalgas off, and runs through a bunch of Brazil-oriented tunes, the better to World Cup you with, my dear. PREVIOUSLY ON...
View ArticleBrazil street musician just kills it with ‘Sultans of Swing’ (video)
Dire Straits’ hit Sultans of Swing filled the air in Sao Paolo, Brazil, last week. This guy rocks!
View ArticleHappy Mexican Dancing Horse Day! (videos)
Post by Pal Feis Tucson. OK, we made up Mexican Dancing Horse Day, but we think there should be holiday like that, with Banda music and all the oats you can eat! Above is a brand-new dancing horse...
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Look for the union label: Music videos for Labor Day weekend
Happy Labor Day Weekend! Sing along with the music that celebrates the ordinary working people who keep this country — and the world — in business: Look for the Union Label, Workin’ in a Coal Mine,...
View ArticleIt all begins with a touch: ‘El Contacto’ (video)
Familiar images morph into an unexpected sensual landscape of chill sound and shadow in El Contacto, a (music) video from Spanish filmmaker Francisco Montoro.
View ArticleFrom Italy via the DR: Electrochill ‘Cumbia de Pierda’ (audio,video)
Cumbia de Piedra is an abstract chillaxed electro-cumbia video by Benetton’s Fabrica, for MOHS, the second album from violinist Jhon William Castaño Montoya. Animation by by Tomás Pichardo, from the...
View Article1940s Style: Orquesta de Don Ramon ‘Chicano Boogie’ (video)
It’s not much of a video but it rules as a wild examplar of 1940s pachuco “boogie-woogie jitterbug” (like Lalo Guerrero’s Los Chucos Suaves.) This performance features unstoppable rhumba-flavored...
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Let me tell you all the reasons I really, really hate Christmas
I’m so sick of Christmas and December isn’t even a week old! Every year it’s the same crap over and over again. I mean, I wasn’t even finished pretending not to eat Halloween candy before people...
View ArticleWill Shakila become the next ‘Christmas Idol’? (video)
The Christmas Idol panel of judges is as tough as a grand jury. Santa Claus, Lady Sharoun the Purple, and Jesus H. Christ Himself can make a contestant’s dreams come true or break her heart. Can...
View ArticleThis is how we partied on New Year’s – how about you? (video)
Cleaning up afterwards was a drag, though.
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Today is the day the music (and Ritchie Valens) died
Today marks the sad anniversary of “the day the music died,” the 1959 airplane crash that took the lives of rock stars Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. Valens, from the L.A. suburb of...
View ArticleBBC Video: What does it mean to be Mexican-American?
The BBC sent a reporter to the Southwest to find out what it means to be a Mexican-American. The answer? It’s complicated.
View ArticleWatch: When Spanish speakers sing pop songs in ‘English’
Post by RockerosVIP.com. The mariachi version of Daft Punk’s Get Loqui is only the tip of the iceberg, as this video shows.
View ArticleAsk A Mexican: Should Mexicans move to the South? (video)
It’s complicated, but Gustavo ¡Ask A Mexican! Arellano considers the future of Mexican-Americans in the South and suggests it’s the new, unconquered Aztlan ripe for the Reconquista Part II. After all,...
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Listen: Why does Mexican music have polkas, waltzes and accordions?
Happy 76th birthday, Texas accordian star Flaco Jimenez! Why is Mexican music filled with polkas and waltzes and accordions? It’s about immigration, according to Felix Contreras of NPR’s Alt.Latino and...
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