DJ Lechero’s Cuatro Tacos serves up all the fun of Ambjaay’s UNO without the cusswords and misogyny.
Mas…Happy Taco Thursday from DJ Lechero: ‘Cuatro Tacos’ (music video)
COMIC SAENZ
Can true love win in the end? Mom and Dad aren’t so sure! ‘Susana’, new video from The Mariachi Ghost, shows and tells (with lyrics)
In the new music video from Winnipeg’s The Mariachi Ghost, Susana, mom and dad seek to separate young lovers. But cutting heart strings is a dangerous approach.
Mira las palabras:
Oakland’s Bang Data is all about the ‘Amor Califas California ❤️’ (video)
East Bay’s Bang Data is sure loves California, and if your city didn’t get a shout out in this video, go back and listen again.
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Mas…Oakland’s Bang Data is all about the ‘Amor Califas California ❤️’ (video)
Always Look for the Union Label: Music vids for Labor Day Weekend 2019
It’s Labor Day Weekend!
¡Orale!
Happy Labor Day Weekend!
Sing along with the music that celebrates the ordinary working people who keep this country — and the world — in business: 9 to 5 from Dolly Parton, Look for the Union Label, Workin’ in a Coal Mine, This Land Is Your Land, and Solidarity Forever.
Mas…Always Look for the Union Label: Music vids for Labor Day Weekend 2019
‘El Paso’ was a hit record, so why not ‘El Pizza’? (video)
“Out in the West Texas town of El Paso,” Marty Robbins sang in his hit 1960 record El Paso, “I fell in love with a Mexican girl.”
The popular Tex-Mex corrido inspired Houston-born musician H.B. Barnum to tell his own story of lost love.
Mas…‘El Paso’ was a hit record, so why not ‘El Pizza’? (video)
Taco Tuesday Nightmare: No avocados in the guacamole (NPR audio)
Food writer Javier Cabral — AKA THE GLUTSTER — goes behind the scenes at your local taqueria to find out what’s in the guacamole.
Mas…Taco Tuesday Nightmare: No avocados in the guacamole (NPR audio)
New from The Mariachi Ghost: ‘Cuerpo Mortal’ (music video)
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)
Los Lobos: Will the Wolf Survive? (classic 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.
The Hip Hop Hoodíos drop new/old EP (3 videos!)
Do you know the Hip Hop Hoodios — North America’s leading Jewish Latino bi-coastal hip hop collective?
Ghost of Spanish dude sighted in CDMX, and he is pissed!
(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!
¡Mira! These are the Pocho Ocho Most Mexican Countries
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
Trump calls Beto a fake Mexican, Chewbacca a fake alien
(PNS reporting from MAGA-LAGO) President Dotard Trump today blasted international movie star Chewbacca and Democratic presidential wannabe Beto O’Rourke as fakes.
¿Do you know any songs by PIÑATA PROTEST? (music video y lyrics)
“¿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)
‘The Cisco Kid Was A Friend of Mine’: WAR music video y cartoon
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
¡Mira! Japanese chicas who dress like cholas I mean Chicanas (video)
Connie Wang travels to Nagoya, Japan to speak with local women who dress like Chicanas. You won’t believe what happens next!
POCHO Jefe @LaloAlcaraz: Melania is welcome at my house! (podcast)
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)
‘Rapunzel’ lets down her hair, but not so happily ever after (video)
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.
It’s time for a Native American superhero! Meet REZ WUFF (video)
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)
Kap G’s question for the President: What’s a day without a Mexican?
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?
Want to join La Migra? Check out Border Patrol boot camp (video)
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.
Rick Trevino y Flaco Jimenez: Love, but ‘I Am A Mexican’ (video)
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)
And the winner is … METALACHI and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (music 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.
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Mas…And the winner is … METALACHI and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (music video)
POCHO OVAL OFFICE THEATER TRIPLE FEATURE: Blood In, Blood Out; El Norte; y Mi Vida Loca; PLUS Our Hero, Speedy Gonzales, in Mexicali Shmoes
Anything good on tonight? Why yes there is, and thank you for asking:
53 Years Ago in East Los: ‘Happy New Year Baby’ from The Sisters
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
Where is The Chavez Ravine? Lost in the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ (video)
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).]
WKRP in Cincinnati Thanksgiving: ‘OMG! I thought turkeys could fly!’
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!
Top Chef Katsuji Tanabe: ‘Got salsa, chips? Make chilaquiles!’ (video)
POCHO amigo Top Chef alumnus Katsuji Tanabe doesn’t want you to waste food. That’s why he’s sharing his recipe for chilaquiles.
Election Mediation: Breathe in, breathe out, VOTE BLUE (video)
Radical reiki master and post-modern yoga guru Shea Depmore wants you to breathe, breathe out and VOTE BLUE.
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide on HISPANIC HALLOWEEN (video)
Sure, he’s a masked, knife-wielding serial killer. But she’s a Latina mom with a chancla. AAAIIIEE!