COMIC SAENZ
POCHO’s favorite Mexico-inspired Canadian band, The Mariachi Ghost, has new album and new music video.
Cuerpo Mortal starts out in Art Laboe’s Sunday night Latin soul oldies mode but soon moves into a dark metaphor:
Mas…New from The Mariachi Ghost: ‘Cuerpo Mortal’ (music video)
How much better can it get? Will the Wolf Survive? is the 1984 music video that exploded East Los homies Los Lobos into stardom. And don’t the guys look young⁈ Released 35 ago years today! Yikes.
How Will the Wolf Survive? is the major label debut album of Los Lobos. In 1989, it was ranked #30 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. In 2003, the album was ranked number 461 on the magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Do you know the Hip Hop Hoodios — North America’s leading Jewish Latino bi-coastal hip hop collective?
(PNS reporting from MEXICO CITY) A reeking appartition dressed in the decaying uniform of a Spanish Conquistador was sighted around Mexico City last week, and boy, was he pissed!
The shrieking ghost was seen haunting the Mexico City site of a 1720 battle where the indigenous Mexica Empire defeated the Spanish.
Area man Pito Perez, who reported the ghost to PNS, said it first he thought the goblin might be La Llorona, or pero his drunk Uncle Abelardo, the mariachi, but no.
Mas…Ghost of Spanish dude sighted in CDMX, and he is pissed!
After Fox News equated all of Latin America with Mexico [photo], we knew we had to let the world know the alternative facts about that thing we like to call reality.
Mira our list of the Pocho Ocho Most Mexican Countries:
8. West Cochina
7. East Los Mexico
6. New New Mexico
(PNS reporting from MAGA-LAGO) President Dotard Trump today blasted international movie star Chewbacca and Democratic presidential wannabe Beto O’Rourke as fakes.
“¿Got any requests?”
“Claro! Porfa can you play DUI, the latest music video from Piñata Protest?”
You won’t believe what happened next! ¡Mira las palabras:
Mas…¿Do you know any songs by PIÑATA PROTEST? (music video y lyrics)
POCHO amigo and Long Beach homie Harold Ray Brown — founder of the internationally-famous funk/rock/jazz/Latin group WAR — posted this old cartoon version of the Cisco Kid Was A Friend of Mine lyrics from one of the band’s books of sheet music. The record was a hit in 1971.
Mas…‘The Cisco Kid Was A Friend of Mine’: WAR music video y cartoon
Connie Wang travels to Nagoya, Japan to speak with local women who dress like Chicanas. You won’t believe what happens next!
It’s POCHO Jefe Lalo Alcaraz, guesting on the Only in America podcast with Ali Noorani. Here’s how they describe the episode:
Mas…POCHO Jefe @LaloAlcaraz: Melania is welcome at my house! (podcast)
Colombian artist Juan Pablo Machado re-tells the fairy tale of Rapunzel, the long-haired blonde maiden imprisoned in a castle tower, but this time, it’s not working out so well for her would-be rescuers.
Representation matters, and Native Americans need their own superhero too. According to The 1491s, it might go something like this ….
Mas…It’s time for a Native American superhero! Meet REZ WUFF (video)
Atlanta’s Kap G — born George Ramirez — has a question for the president:
Mas…Kap G’s question for the President: What’s a day without a Mexican?
The Border Patrol is looking for more agents, so Univision went to boot camp to film their military-style training and talk to the newbies. Half of the recruits, it turns out, are Latinos.
It’s a sad, sad country music tale of a “mixed love affair” gone bad. He needs America, America needs him, Rick Trevino sings, but I Am A Mexican. There’s also La Migra to keep things interesting.
Tex-Mex legend Flaco Jimenez backs Trevino up on accordion, and as chance would have it sings a song on the very same subject:
Mas…Rick Trevino y Flaco Jimenez: Love, but ‘I Am A Mexican’ (video)
Our favorite heavy metal mariachi band — Metalachi — serves up a spectacular video for their version of Bohemian Rhapsody, featuring special guest star Felipe Esparza. Their third album — inexplicably called Tres — is available now.
PREVIOUSY ON METALACHI:
Mas…And the winner is … METALACHI and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (music video)
Anything good on tonight? Why yes there is, and thank you for asking:
Fifty-three years go – 1965 – big hair and girl groups were what all the cool kids dug in East Los Angeles.
Sisters Rosella, Ersi, and Mary Arvizu believed they could be the next Supremes — even before there were Supremes. They called themselves The Sisters.
Mark Guerrero, son of Chicano music legend Lalo Guerrero, tells the story:
Mas…53 Years Ago in East Los: ‘Happy New Year Baby’ from The Sisters
East Los rockers The Chavez Ravine‘s new music video takes us to the mysterious zone known as the Bermuda Triangle, where being buried in a shallow grave doesn’t mean your love affair is over.
[Video by MANDO+KEVIN. The Chavez Ravine is Manny Nieto (vocals/guitar), Mando Lopez (bass), and Phil Guerrero (drums).]
This is the video all the POCHODORES watch every Thanksgiving. It features WKRP’s Les Nessman reporting:
I can see it now -- the WKRP Holiday Helicopter is coming in low over Cincinnati!
POCHO amigo Top Chef alumnus Katsuji Tanabe doesn’t want you to waste food. That’s why he’s sharing his recipe for chilaquiles.
Radical reiki master and post-modern yoga guru Shea Depmore wants you to breathe, breathe out and VOTE BLUE.
Sure, he’s a masked, knife-wielding serial killer. But she’s a Latina mom with a chancla. AAAIIIEE!
POYO? That’s not how you spell POLLO! What is that brown stuff? Are these corn or flour tortillas?
WHAT EXACTLY IS GOING ON IN THIS VIDEO?
Mas…It took us a while to figure out exactly what was in these tacos (video)
Magali Garcia’s I Need tells the story of a girl who is always looking for something else. Will she ever get what she wants?
Mas…I NEED: This girl is always looking for something else (video)
East Los pocha Alice Bag aka Alicia “Alice” Armendariz (formerly of the The Bags) just released this track in support of Professor Christine Blasey Ford, Ph.D.’s testimony about rapey Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
MIRA LOS LYRICS:
Mas…Chicana punk icon Alice Bag: ‘I Believe Her, Do You?’ (new music, lyrics)
We don’t know where or when this was recorded, but this guy performing a karaoke version of Tequila by The Champs totally nails it. He didn’t even have to look at the lyrics!
