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Mas…¿Do you know any songs by PIÑATA PROTEST? (music video y lyrics)
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LISTEN: All you want for Christmas: ‘Buñuelos a monton’
É Arenas, bass player for Chicano Batman, cooks up some cumbia for Christmas in this new song
Buñuelos a Monton, and he includes all your favorite fiesta Mexmas specialties:
Come mija hay mucho mas
Porque cocinamos muy tradicional
Tamales de elote, de puerco,
De queso, champurrado
Barbacoa y jamon
Con su salsa verde y arroz
Tambien menudo con pata,
Librillo y su tendon
Y buñuelos a monton
OC cumbia punks Thee Commons debut ‘Foolish King’ (audio)
Fullerton, California’s finest psychedelic cumbia punk rockers Thee Commons have released the first track from their album Loteria Tribal. The Orange County group’s edgy Foolish King comes as the band begins a national tour this summer.
Mas…OC cumbia punks Thee Commons debut ‘Foolish King’ (audio)
Juanita Ca$h: ‘Fuego del Amor (Ring of Fire)’ (audio)
“What would it sound like if Johnny Cash had an illegitimate daughter raised in Juarez?” asks the Juanita Ca$h Facebook page. “Juanita Ca$h has come to take her revenge on her father’s music: Blasphemous, boisterous, psychedelic cumbia versions of her daddy’s classic songs.”
Uhm, huh?
Dude, where’s my Death Star? ‘Estar Wars’ – cumbia style (video)
La Cumbia de Patricio Cobarde marches the hell out of the Imperial March, aka La Cumbia Imperial, from Star Wars. These are not los droids you’re looking for.
Then there was the time a mariachi wedding band played the Super Mario Bros theme song.
Kanye West practices Latino outreach for 2020 campaign (video)
When he makes his presidential run in 2020, Kanye West is not gonna alienate potential Latino voters like Trump, oh no he won’t.
Is Compton’s El Compa Negro the ‘Eminem of Mexican music’? (video)
Compton native Rhyan Lowery grew up with Mexican friends and Mexican music, and now he sings cumbia as El Compa Negro. Maybe it helps that he can ride a horse. [Video by LAWeekly.]
Watch: Mariachi El Bronx is burning up with ‘Wildfires’ (official video)
Burning with love like Wildfires, alt.neo.electro.fusion.cumbia.mariachi conjunto Mariachi El Bronx continues the quest for a hit record in 6/8 time with this new official music video:
Mas…Watch: Mariachi El Bronx is burning up with ‘Wildfires’ (official video)
From 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 Dominican Republic.
Mas…From Italy via the DR: Electrochill ‘Cumbia de Pierda’ (audio,video)
Day laborers sing ‘Ese Gúey No Paga’ (That dude doesn’t pay)
Not only is getting the work really fracking hard – you have to hang outside Home Depot and chase contractors’ trucks – but lots of times day laborers work all day and then get ripped off for their pay.
This cumbia music video from Los Jornaleros del Norte (The Day Laborers of the North) and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network highlights the fight against wage theft.
“Ese gúey no paga,” they sing. “That dude doesn’t pay!”
Mas…Day laborers sing ‘Ese Gúey No Paga’ (That dude doesn’t pay)
Bang Data has mad ‘Amor Califas (California Love)’ [audio]
The Bay Area’s Bang Data is in love ♡ with the Golden State. And Amor Califas California Love is in Spanglish, just like we like it.
Alt.surf.punk.cumbia? Thee Commons: ‘Sunburn at Midnight’ (video)
The band is Thee Commons from East Los and they debut officially on BrotherScienceTV’s Rewind on YouTube today. Since you asked, it’s Lion on guitar, Monkey on drums and Wolf on bass.
Los Master Plus, Mexican hipster music duo, loves pochos
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like for a Mexican hipster to remake some of your favorite English-language songs in an alternative cumbia style while wearing hipster mustaches and silver sneakers, you need look no further than Los Master Plus.
I first heard of the Guadalajara duo with their remake of King of Leons’ song, Sex on Fire, Sexo en Fuego, a homemade and tongue-in-cheek music video that makes fun of both hip hop and rock music videos in one fell swoop, last year.
Last week I hung out with El Comanche and Larry Mon at The Conga Room in Downtown Los Angeles.
Mas…Los Master Plus, Mexican hipster music duo, loves pochos
Sr. Montecostes: Animated musical gory surrealistic beautiful video
From Argentina comes this day-glo mandala-meets-CGI-bloody-knife-wielding origami-looking creature feature with a techno-cumbia-sorta soundtrack by Mati Zundel and lyrics we can’t figure out. Sr. Montecostes is by Luis Suarez.
San Antonio’s Bombasta rocks the hood with ‘De la Calle’
People you know, situations you recognize, stuff you resemble, calles you cruise, stories you live — they’re all here in De la Calle, the super Spanglish new alt.cumbia video from San Antonio band Bombasta.
El Conjunto Nueva Ola is chido! ‘Chido Chido’ actually (music video)
TGIF Music Video from La Chata’s Music Box: El Cunjunto Nueva Ola — a crew of masked cumbia-loving luchadores — has a new album out called Chido Chido. No, no I am not saying it’s chido (cool in English.) Well, actually, it is. This tune is called Cumbia Town.
Los Brioles: ‘Hombres muertos no hacen ruido al caminar’ (videos)
TGIF Music Videos: Los Brioles are a crazed psychobilly trio from Spain. Dead men, like dead puppies, probably don’t have much fun, but they sure do rock!
But wait — there’s more! Dig this local cholobilly music video from Los Bandits who describe themselves this way:
Psychobilly, Rockabilly, Punk, Spanish guitar, Cumbia, and Mexican music that has an infiltration of Chicano based lyrics.
Mas…Los Brioles: ‘Hombres muertos no hacen ruido al caminar’ (videos)