Why, we asked ourselves, would these RelaxMusic people upload scores of allegedly ethnic or national background music videos to YouTube? If people play them as background audio, they will not be looking at — and clicking on — ads, so the uploaders will not make money. Is it a public service? Some kind alternative facts thing? We don’t know. On the other hand, you can enjoy two hours of uncredited, unnamed mariachi (and other Mexican) muzak right here.
Las Cafeteras: ‘If I Was President’ (audio)
East Los musicians Las Cafeteras have long made political progress a signature element of their sound and the band’s new single continues the tradition.
If I Was President — released on Monday, Presidents Day — starts with the son jarocho song Señor Presidente and “then flows into a bilingual hip hop-folk fusion, with lyrics that make you dream, think, come up with alternatives.”
Exploring the no-man’s land south of the border wall (video)
There's a small stretch of soil north of the Rio Grande that's still part of the United States south of the Mexican border wall. The Atlantic went inside this No-Man’s Land to uncover what life is like in a place that feels like not-quite America, but not-quite Mexico.
In America, debate over refugees, priorities continues (#TBT 2015 toon)
This started out as just text on Facebook, and then he made it into a cartoon.
Los Hollywood: Cassette mixtape + Polaroid selfies = ‘Cucu’ (video)
Los Hollywood — from San Diego and Tijuana — do the Time Warp again as they mashup the past (cassette tapes, Polaroid cameras) with modern pop and selfies in the new video Cucu. Los Hollywood es la visión artistica de una banda dinámica conformada por Heidy Flores (voz/bajo) [POCHO ❤️ HEIDY], Gustavo Mojica (batería), y Marcos Mondragon (guitarra). That’s actor Stephanie Miranda with the pink hair and the camera..
PREVIOUSLY ON LOS HOLLYWOOD:
Mas…Los Hollywood: Cassette mixtape + Polaroid selfies = ‘Cucu’ (video)
Mexican roqueros De Nalgas: ‘Con Dinero Baila El Perro’ (video)
When it comes to Rock en Español, we love De Nalgas y Molotov. In this angry new release, De Nalgas turn the standard lyrics music video upside down by spelling out the Spanish words via memes and social media. The band is sick and tired of Mexico’s hypocrisy and lies and this is their “combat anthem.” “Now more than ever we,” they emailed, “the need to rise up and fight, wave the Mexican flag in fair warning to the government we are no longer afraid.”
Since we’re pochos who can’t espeak Spanish, here’s an official translation:
Mas…Mexican roqueros De Nalgas: ‘Con Dinero Baila El Perro’ (video)
Swinging saloon doors lead a cowboy to his destiny in ‘La Bota’ (video)
A wandering vaquero meets his destiny in a dusty desert saloon called La Bota — The Boot.
Fat foodaholic gabacho drinks Corona and makes corn tortillas (video)
Chris Donovan of FatFoodaolics shows us How to Make Corn Tortillas the Wrong Way. Huh? He explains:
Tortillas! One of my favorite foods on the planet. Nothing better then a Taco or Burrito smothered with cheese, sour cream, pico de gallo, etc. One thing, I can never replicate what I get in a good Mexican restaurant with store bought corn tortillas. So I figured I give making them a try.
Meanwhile in Casco Antiguo, Panama City, Panama … (photo)
[Photo by Profe Timoteo.]
Exploring ‘The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema’ (student video)
Antioch College student Cristian Perez-Lopez put together this cool short video for a history of film class. How many of these films have you seen?
Mas…Exploring ‘The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema’ (student video)
Pro-Trump luchador stirs up the lucha libre crowds in Mexico (video)
Pittsburgh pendejo Sam Polinsky moved to Mexico to get a job as lucha libre bad guy — a “rudo.” How rude can you go? He’s a Trumpista!
The National (United Arab Emirates) explains:
Mas…Pro-Trump luchador stirs up the lucha libre crowds in Mexico (video)
How-to Recipe Video: Korean pork belly bulgogi tacos with peanuts
Gabiekook shows us how to make Korean pork belly bulgogi tacos with peanuts. But first you need to answer her question: [[우리집에왜왔니?]] 국가비의 코리안 타코편 (Why did you come to my house?) Aside from the religious issues we have regarding wheat vs corn tortillas, the marinade and saucing stuff look muy rico! Oh, and nice mustache!
Oral History: ‘I came to the U.S.A. in 1962 as a bracero’ (videos)
When labor was short in 1950s and 60s, the American and Mexican governments worked together to import laborers across the border to work as “braceros.”
The American Friends service Committee explains:
Mas…Oral History: ‘I came to the U.S.A. in 1962 as a bracero’ (videos)
Alice Bag: We reject your ‘Reign of Fear’ (music video, lyrics)
East Los punk pioneer Alice Bag wrote this song for the orange-skinned fascist fear monger. We reject, she sings, your Reign of Fear.
Mira los lyrics:
Mas…Alice Bag: We reject your ‘Reign of Fear’ (music video, lyrics)
Pocho Ocho top activists’ pickup lines for Valentine’s Day 2017
Love is in the air for Valentine’s Day.
Is there a way for the politically active pocha or pocho, Chicano, Chicana, Chican@ and/or Latinx to get lucky AND make the world a better place?
Yes, there is, in our list of the Pocho Ocho top activist pickup lines you can use for Valentine’s Day:
8. What do we want? A quiet romantic dinner for two! When do we want it? Friday night — what do you think — 8-ish?
7. What’s a nice girl like you doing in a MEChA like this?
6. Is that a GMO-free organic sustainably-raised earth-friendly heirloom local family farm non-corporate elote in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Mas…Pocho Ocho top activists’ pickup lines for Valentine’s Day 2017
When stopped by La Migra, KNOW YOUR RIGHTS! (photo)
[Public domain photo by Customs and U.S. Border Patrol.]
Tia Lencha’s Cocina: Hot Sexy Aphrodisiac Valentine’s Day Salsa
I’m Elena Maria Celina Carrillo Martinez de los Angeles Delgadillo Trujillo…Lopez. But you can call me Lencha.
Today my son is in his room reading his Naruto muñequito books, so I can chare with you my special recipe for Valentime’s Day.
M’ijo don’t like it when I talk about sexy things because me and his daddy are divorce because his daddy like to stick his weene ebrywhere.
M’ijo usually checks my espelling but oh gwell. Since I have a little gwhile, I give you the recipe for Aphrodisiac Salsa.
Mas…Tia Lencha’s Cocina: Hot Sexy Aphrodisiac Valentine’s Day Salsa