The late musical genius Warren Zevon was in Ensendada, no maybe he was in Echo Park. And maybe he OD’d on heroin, or not. He did hear “mariachi static on his radio,” however. The live video is from 1977.
Mira los lyrics:
live
Los Cenzontles, David Hidalgo: Robert Palmer’s “Every Kinda People”
Los Cenzontles (The Mockingbirds) and David Hidalgo of Los Lobos team up for a fresh Chicano version of Robert Palmer’s Every Kinda People.
PREVIOUSLY ON LOS CENZONTLES:
PREVIOUSLY ON LOS LOBOS:
Que spooky! Mira ‘Los Jinetes en el Cielo/Ghost Riders in the Sky’
The surf guitar cowboy classic Ghost Riders in the Sky/Jinetes en el Cielo lives to ride again in this new version by Los Baby’s.
Burning Spear: ‘Christopher Columbus is a damn blasted liar’ (video)
I and I all I know
I and I all I say
I and I reconsider
I and I see upfully that
Christopher Columbus is a damn blasted liar
Christopher Columbus is a damn blasted liar
Yes Jah
Mas…Burning Spear: ‘Christopher Columbus is a damn blasted liar’ (video)
Los Lobos Live: Kiko and the Lavender Moon (video, lyrics)
Is Kiko and the Lavender Moon the best song from Los Lobos best LP? If you’re wondering why the band looks so young in this video — that’s because it’s over 20 years old.
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Mas…Los Lobos Live: Kiko and the Lavender Moon (video, lyrics)
Tish Hinojosa: He was from ‘The West Side of Town’ (video, lyrics)
Folk/country singer songwriter Tish Hinojosa sings a song about a pilgrim’s progress in America — a Mexican pilgrim in Texas. Felipe, the father, lived in San Antonio, on The West Side of Town. That’s were Felipe met Maria…
Los lyrics:
Mas…Tish Hinojosa: He was from ‘The West Side of Town’ (video, lyrics)
OPINION: We’ve got to get back to the Hotel California
Return your focus to powerhouse California:
Don’t let post-election blues stop you in your tracks
As I write this, it appears the Democrats won the popular vote but lost the presidency, and did not gain control of the House or Senate.
The Democratic Party is INCLUSIVE – embracing all racial and ethnic groups and religions – and is PROGRESSIVE, looking forward and not looking back.
I think it’s important to keep that in mind: Let’s build a hopeful and enlightened future based upon knowledge and science, and not on desperation, ignorance, superstition, and outmoded colonialist notions.
As an educator who works with mostly newly arrived adults and their children to this country, I have the responsibility of ensuring they are not only able to communicate in English, but they are aware of their rights.
I share with them one of their choices, which is the pathway to citizenship and getting the right to vote, both hard-won and still having to be vigilantly protected by generations of women, blacks, Latinos, and Asians in this country.
Rage Against the Machine: Take the Power Back! (NSFW 1997 video)
POCHO amigo Flavio Morales dug this oldie up out of the secret vaults that hold the treasured recordings of his groundbreaking TV program Illegal Interns:
Live concert footage from 1997 of Take the Power Back by Rage Against the Machine.
[RATM is, indeed, raging so there are many NSFW F-bombs etc. Also, if play it loud you can sing along and no one will know.]
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Mas…Rage Against the Machine: Take the Power Back! (NSFW 1997 video)
For weird Mexican surf music, try the Mexican Weirdoh’s Surf Band
They’re weird. They’re Mexican. They play surf music. That’s why they named the band the Mexican Weirdoh’s Surf Band.
Bob Dylan 2010,1964: The Times They Are A-Changin’ (videos,lyrics)
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Bob Dylan is a poet and a prophet, and he sang his 1964 prophecy for the Obamas and America at the White House: The Times They Are A-Changin’. [Scroll to bottom of the page for a live in 1964 version.]
These lyrics contain a hopeful vision and a warning. Some changes are STILL overdue, and some folks need to step back, and get out of the way.
Mas…Bob Dylan 2010,1964: The Times They Are A-Changin’ (videos,lyrics)
Cristina Martinez: Don’t mess with this Chicana! (NSFW poetry video)
This Latinx does not want your stereotyping BS. Cristina Martinez performing Chicana at the Cherokee Man and the Mockingbird graffiti mural at Decatur Station in Decatur, Georgia. [NSFW F-bomb.]
Renee Goust live music video: ‘La Cumbia Feminazi’
Brooklyn-based Mexican singer-songwriter Renee Goust wrote La Cumbia Feminazi in response to online abuse suffered by women.
“I’ve considered myself a feminist ever since I learned the actual meaning of the word,” she says:
Tacocat live video: Consuela’s “Psychedelic Quinceañera”
Seattle’s Tacocat explains why Consuela is skipping school today. Long story short: She’s attending a Psychedelic Quinceañera instead.
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Mas…Tacocat live video: Consuela’s “Psychedelic Quinceañera”
Señor Lingus: Come for the food and stay for the mariachis (video)
At Señor Lingus — the Mexican restaurant chain with live music — you’ll come for the food and stay for the mariachis! Check your Yelper Pages for a Señor Lingus in a shopping mall near you.
Half-fast country music classic: Jim Reeves ‘Adios Amigo’ (video)
The country music legend Jim Reeves had a lot of big records, but we like this “half-fast” April 16, 1964 live-in-Norway version of his hit Adios Amigo. He died later that year behind the controls of a small plane that crashed in Tennessee during a violent thunderstorm. He was 40 years old.
Webcam video: Stunning double rainbow forms over Mexico City
Mexico City got a treat Tuesday when a double rainbow formed over Santa Fe in the western part of the city. A webcam on top of the Hotel Presidente InterContinental captured the arc’s formation as the sun returned following a rainstorm.
You can’t go wrong with Mariachi Flor de Toloache and ‘Tequila’ (video)
New York City’s Mariachi Flor de Toloache — live in Memphis — take a request for a song everybody loves, Tequila, the 1958 golden oldie by The Champs.
In San Diego, burritos include fries and tacos come with poetry (video)
In San Diego, where the “California Burrito” has fries inside, the taco shops have poetry, thanks to the Taco Shop Poets. [Video by Paul Espinosa.]
Old School/New School/Antiguo Paradigma/Nuevo Paradigma (toon)
Out with the old paradigms, in with the new. Argentina’s EmprendedoresNews.com (EntrepreneursNews) explains:
Un nuevo paradigma es el comienzo de un nuevo camino, una nueva forma de hacer las cosas. Generalmente un nuevo paradigma no va a hacer inmediatamente más eficientes todos los procesos al 100%, pero si mejor el modelo que está remplazando.
It is not our responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world, but we are not free to desist from it either. [Click on the image to enlarge.]
Mas…Old School/New School/Antiguo Paradigma/Nuevo Paradigma (toon)
ICYMI: Las Coronelas: Bowie’s “As The World Falls Down” (video,lyrics)
[Originally posted Tuesday January 12]
David Bowie was an inspirational artistic entity from the multiverse, creating musical ripples in the spacetime continuum and, thankfully, in South Texas as well.
Listen in as San Antonio’s all-women, category-breaking Mariachi Las Coronelas wins over a skeptical crowd in this stunning performance of Bowie’s As The World Falls Down. [Live club audio with video slideshow.]
Lyrics:
There’s such a sad love
Deep in your eyes.
A kind of pale jewel
Open and closed
Within your eyes.
I’ll place the sky
Within your eyes.Mas…ICYMI: Las Coronelas: Bowie’s “As The World Falls Down” (video,lyrics)
Mariachi Las Coronelas: Bowie’s “As The World Falls Down” (video,lyrics)
David Bowie was an inspirational artistic entity from the multiverse, creating musical ripples in the spacetime continuum and, thankfully, in South Texas as well.
Listen in as San Antonio’s all-women, category-breaking Mariachi Las Coronelas wins over a skeptical crowd in this stunning performance of Bowie’s As The World Falls Down. [Live club audio with video slideshow.]
Lyrics:
There’s such a sad love
Deep in your eyes.
A kind of pale jewel
Open and closed
Within your eyes.
I’ll place the sky
Within your eyes.Mas…Mariachi Las Coronelas: Bowie’s “As The World Falls Down” (video,lyrics)
Chilean TV reporter loses bikini top on live broadcast (video)
When Chilean TV reporter Bernardita Middleton was challenged to take a dip in chilly ocean during a live shot, she lost her bikini top in the Pacific.
Mas…Chilean TV reporter loses bikini top on live broadcast (video)