Maria Hinojosa of NPR’s LatinoUSA talks with Los Angeles Alcalde Eric Garcetti.
The mayor’s message for President Trump? YOU ARE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!
Mas…L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti: Hey, Trump! Not in my backyard! (NPR audio)
Audio
Little Pedro and the Street Singers explain ‘Spanish America’ (video)
In “Spanish America”, supposed kid singers explain how tortillas are corn bread and frijoles are what’s for lunch:
From the Children’s Record Guild 78, released circa early 1950s. With David Pfeffer as Pedro, also with Sally Sweetland, Earl Rogers, Lee Sweetland, Denise Alexander and David Anderson. Music by Miguel Sandoval. Story by L. Paris.
‘Trumpon Sangron’ Version II by Partners ‘N Crime (audio and lyrics)
Singing, songwriting Partners ‘N Crime explain:
Mas…‘Trumpon Sangron’ Version II by Partners ‘N Crime (audio and lyrics)
Cutty Flam’s latest prom punk rola “Runaway” is EZ 2 dance 2 (audio)
POCHO amigos Cutty Flam, the alt.rock.band from your black-and-white-retro future, asked us a pregunta on the Twitter:
Do you want a new Prom Punk Rola to dance with your Angel Baby?
Why, yes we do! Here is the latest from these local faves: Runaway. Now send the Angel Baby, por fa.
L.A. OGs WAR (the ORIGINAL band): ‘Cinco de Mayo’ (1981 complete)
This 1981 single from WAR was the first time many non-Latinos heard of Cinco de Mayo. This photo shows the original guys at the Sunset Grill (7439 Sunset, next to their offices (Far Out Productions) at 7417 Sunset. The Guitar Center swallowed up 7417 a while back.
L-R: Charles Miller (sax, RIP), Lonnie Jordan (keyboards, the only original member in the new so-called WAR), Howard Scott (guitar, Lowrider Band), Harold Brown (drums, Lowrider Band), BB Dickerson (bass, Lowrider Band), Lee Oskar (harmonica, Lowrider Band). Not pictured, Papa Dee (RIP, percussion).
Mas…L.A. OGs WAR (the ORIGINAL band): ‘Cinco de Mayo’ (1981 complete)
Los Cenzontles cover Dylan’s ‘Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man’ (audio)
Raza roots collective Los Cenzontles strip Bob Dylan’s Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man back to the basics (the lyrics) and then build it back up en estilo Latino. That’s Eugene Rodriguez, vocals, Lucina Rodriguez and Fabiola Trujillo, chorus, Emiliano Rodriguez, bass, Carlos Caro, bongo, shaker, guiro, tambourine, and Silvestre Martinez, cajon, congas.
DID YOU KNOW?
Bruce Langhorne, Bob Dylan’s long-time guitarist, and the inspiration for Mr. Tambourine Man, died recently.
Mas…Los Cenzontles cover Dylan’s ‘Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man’ (audio)
This One Goes Out for International Women’s Day: Las Cafeteras ‘Mujer Soy’ (video)
In Mujer Soy, by Las Cafeteras, we see a day in the real life of Maryann Aguirre, a woman from East Los Angeles. Happy International Women’s Day! (Remixed by YUKICITO.)
Mas…This One Goes Out for International Women’s Day: Las Cafeteras ‘Mujer Soy’ (video)
We’ve got your basic 2-hour-long mariachi music video right here
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.”
Orange President salutes Black History Month (transcript, audio, toon)
Our historic President knows more about Black History Month than the last President, who was not so historic.
And instead of teaching us in American, the President is going to speak English to you, you know, to class up the history of this carnage-loving people, his African-Americans.
Our speech researchers here at the National Pochismo Institute took Wednesday’s speech transcript and ran it through a text-to-speech thang with a British-accented robo-bloke. And it sounds classy! You’ve never heard classy as bigly as this — all the words — the best words — plus a Ben Carson shoutout — and some bragging, lots of lies, and ignorance in abundance. Not to mention dissing CNN and non sequitors, slang, and muddled thinking. You’re welcome, mate.
Mira el transcript, with notes from POCHO’s Comic Saenz, and audio below:
Mas…Orange President salutes Black History Month (transcript, audio, toon)
Lalo Alcaraz on WGBH/PRI: ‘U.S. is becoming Mexico’ (audio)
POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz stopped by WGBH in Boston today to record an interview (audio and video) for Public Radio International’s The World with Carol Hills.
It sounds like he made some new friends in Boston:
Alcaraz is a strong believer in laughing during hard times. And that’s where satire comes in. Coping with humor is something he learned from his Mexican parents. “It’s kind of the Mexican national pastime. I was just telling my Uber driver that the US has become Mexico. That’s why we all have 10 jobs.”
Here’s the audio:
Mas…Lalo Alcaraz on WGBH/PRI: ‘U.S. is becoming Mexico’ (audio)
We don’t want your tiny hands anywhere near our underpants! (audio)
“We don’t want your tiny hands anywhere near our underpants!” Fiona Apple sings.
Everyone, now:
WE DON’T WANT YOUR TINY HANDS
ANYWHERE NEAR OUR UNDERPANTS!
LatinoUSA NPR Audio: The 1% and 99% of Mexico meet in NYC
LatinoUSA’s Antonia Cereijido writes the intro:
If you go to a high-end restaurant in New York City, there’s a good chance that you’re dining among some of the wealthiest Mexicans in the world and being served by some of the poorest. This story was produced in collaboration with Round Earth Media. Tyler Kelley is a co-reporter on the piece.
[Mariachi Restaurant in Astoria, Queens, NY, photographed by Aude. Some rights reserved.]
DREAMer from Georgia, back in DF, tries to fit in (NPR audio)
Yovany Diaz was brought to the U.S. without papers when he was only seven, and he grew up in Georgia, speaking English. When his mom’s health issues required him to move “back” to Mexico City, this all-American ice hockey loving pocho found himself in a strange new world, even though it was “home.” James Frederick of NPR’s Latino USA has the story.
¡Orale! We’re getting $5.2 million for Christmas! (audio)
OMG! We’re getting a $5.2 million ATM Card for Christmas! Here are the deets:
GOOD DAY MY FRIEND.
How are you, and with your family,All the arragement is done about your ATM CARD,there is no problem again
but i let you know that .Our ATM DEPARTMENT OFFICE Benin republic here are delivery your ATM MASTER CARD
with very little amount If you are ready to receive it which can cost you $100
dollar only. Now i let you know that all your total Amount of your ATM CARD is
( $5.8 MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLAR ONLY ) so i let you know that to Activation
fee of ATM CARD before is $200 dollar in any country in this world wide. but
the COMMISSIONNER OF POLICE And MR IYA BONI PRESIDENCE of Benin republic
held a meeting with there Cabinet the cocultion is that the activation of
ATM CARD will be $100 dollar only.
Mas…¡Orale! We’re getting $5.2 million for Christmas! (audio)
Songwriting therapy: When everything is f—-d, keep on going (audio)
I wrote a little pep talk, for myself and for anyone else who needs one, as we wade through the fuckedness of all this. Catchy and short and angry and upbeat and exactly a minute long. [NSFW F-bomb.]
[Music and art by METAFILTER main man CORTEX aka Josh Millard.]
RIP y QDEP: Ramón ‘Chunky’ Sanchez, pocho hero of San Diego
I was sad to hear that San Diego and Barrio Logan Chicano icon Ramón “Chunky” Sanchez passed away Friday at the age of 65.
Born in 1951 in Blythe, California, Chunky learned to play music from his family, and lived his childhood as a migrant farmworker. He left the farm he worked with his father soon after hearing the owner tell his dad that Chunky would make a great foreman when he was gone.
He decided to go to college, and eventually landed at San Diego State. Chunky and his brother Ricardo’s band Los Alacranes Mojados were a fixture when I was a MEChista at San Diego State; I can’t tell you how many events they played for us and for the entire movimiento.
Mas…RIP y QDEP: Ramón ‘Chunky’ Sanchez, pocho hero of San Diego
Latinos boo Senator ‘Little’ Marco Rubio at Orlando fiesta (audio, video)
If was not a fun fiesta for Senator Marco Rubio (R-FLA) Sunday when Orlando festival goers greeted his appearance with a chorus of yells, jeers and boos.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio got booed off a stage in Orlando on Sunday, by a crowd that was overwhelmingly Latino.
It happened at Calle Orange, a street festival in downtown Orlando geared toward the city’s large Puerto Rican community. The icy reception was an indication of the challenges that Rubio, a Republican of Cuban heritage, has faced in locking down support from Latinos in Florida as the state’s Latino electorate has begun to shift to the left….
“I’m going to introduce a man who represents Latinos, no matter where you’re from,” the emcee boomed in Spanish. The boos grew louder still. “Ladies and gentlemen, the senator for the state of Florida, a Latino like you and me … his name is Marco Rubio! Applaud!”
We’ve got video and audio:
Mas…Latinos boo Senator ‘Little’ Marco Rubio at Orlando fiesta (audio, video)
Señor El Trumpón, El Cabrón: Chinga tú dinero! (audio, lyrics)
POCHO amigos songwriters and singers Tapia Corel y Jim Rhodes (aka Partners in Crime) present Trumpón, “…inspired by the antics of Donald Trump, who has continued to defy disbelief, no matter what he says or does.”
Los lyrics:
Mas…Señor El Trumpón, El Cabrón: Chinga tú dinero! (audio, lyrics)
‘That Mexican Thing Again’ ringtones make America great again (audio)
Make America Great Again with Mike Pence That Mexican Thing Again ringtones.
They’re the perfect audio identifiers for those extra especial phone calls!
Mas…‘That Mexican Thing Again’ ringtones make America great again (audio)
De Nalgas: We are culeros, here to wake you up (NSFW audio, lyrics)
Mexico City punk rockers De Nalgas’ (On Your Butt) new single, Pare de Sufrir Pare de Mamar (Stop Suffering, Stop Fucking Up) from the album Vulgar Dulce Hogar, has some deep feels about celebrity vs ability in the music world. POCHO scored the Mexclusive NSFW lyrics in Spanish and English to spread the word. [Adult language in the Spanish audio, too.]
Mira los lyrics:
No soy un genio, no soy inventor de nada
solamente hago lo que se me da la gana
No me importa si lo que hago te parece una mamada
sigo con mi onda y no me meto con tu banda
No soy perfecto, tampoco le hago al cuento
mientras más hablas más importancia tú me das
tu onda mamalona me emputa y me encabrona
mientras más hablas más poco a poco te hundes más
Mas…De Nalgas: We are culeros, here to wake you up (NSFW audio, lyrics)
Beck vs Mexican Institute of Sound: ‘WOW/GUAU’ (YouTube audio)
The cumbia-flavored remix of Beck’s WOW aka GUAU by Mexican Institute of Sound is now on YouTube and we’re sharing here so you don’t have to deal with pinche Spotify. You’re guelcome. 🙂
POCHO MEXCLUSIVE PHOTO:
Mas…Beck vs Mexican Institute of Sound: ‘WOW/GUAU’ (YouTube audio)
LatinoUSA: The mysterious origins of Navajo fry bread tacos (audio)
What is the deal on these so-called Navajo tacos, anyhow?
NPR’s Anne Hoffman and Maria Hinojosa of LatinoUSA are looking for answers:
Mas…LatinoUSA: The mysterious origins of Navajo fry bread tacos (audio)
Massive Attack and Hope Sandoval: ‘The Spoils’ (video)
Our favorite East Los singer, Hope Sandoval, teams up with Massive Attack in this release of The Spoils. The new music is officially available via the band’s smartphone app.
Sandoval and Massive Attack also collaborated on this 2010 song, Paradise Circus:
Happy 4th of July! ‘Star Spanglish Banner’ by Horchata Ice (audio)
Here’s one from the vaults! Is Star Spanglish Banner a lost track from INSANE IN THE BRAIN, the unreleased 2007 album that was the subject of speculation, lawsuits and at least two shootings? Those close to HORCHATA ICE (photo) won’t say. And those ties to Biggie and Tupac? Don’t go there.
Olmeca to the kids: ‘Dump Trump and F* the Police’ (audio)
“Dump Trump?” “F* the police”? Wassup with that?
“I wrote this for the kids!,” hip hop artist and activist Olmeca says.
He explains it this way::
Mas…Olmeca to the kids: ‘Dump Trump and F* the Police’ (audio)
Nevada riot grrrl + SoCal pocho = PDX duo Tallwomen (audio)
Drummer David Jacobo is a SoCal pocho (Sylmar/Van Nuys/East Los) who works as an educator with special need kids in Portland. Guitarist Cassi Blum. from Reno, Nevada via the East Coast, is a PDX barista.
Together for just six months, the two kick it old school Black Flag style as indie punk band Tallwomen. POCHO’s Punk Rock Artesano Junco Canché gives them “5 liberty spikes out of 5.”
Mas…Nevada riot grrrl + SoCal pocho = PDX duo Tallwomen (audio)
Hopeful candidates begin election year Hispandering (audio)
As the election cycle heats up, hopeful candidates try to gain Hispanic/Latino support, but we won’t get fooled again.
POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz and POCHO Associate Naranjero Gustavo ¡Ask a Mexican! Arellano spill the Hispandering beans on Maria Hinojosa’s Latino USA.
Mas…Hopeful candidates begin election year Hispandering (audio)
Los Cenzontles: ELO’s “I can’t get it out of my head” (video)
Electric Light Orchestra’s I can’t get it out of my head is the lastest pop music cover from Los Cenzontles (The Mockingbirds).
PREVIOUSLY ON LOS CENZONTLES COVERS:
Mas…Los Cenzontles: ELO’s “I can’t get it out of my head” (video)
A Tribe Called Red: Stadium Anti-Racist Pow Wow Chant (audio)
Canadian First Nations DJ Crew A Tribe Called Red mixes up traditional sounds with future sonics and they want you to use this song instead of racist mascot chants in sports arenas.
Mas…A Tribe Called Red: Stadium Anti-Racist Pow Wow Chant (audio)
New on Entrepodcast: WePupy – AirBnB for bathroom sharing (audio)
In this week’s Episode #74 of Entrepod, the podcast for wannabe entrepreneurs, host Adam Buckholtz (photo) speaks with Bay Area entrepreneur Genesee Flashpan.
She’s flushed with pride about WePupy — a new app that wipes “the sharing economy” and sanitizes it for your protection.
When you have to go, you have to go, and WePupy makes it easy to leave your cares behind at carefully curated facilities near you.
Mas…New on Entrepodcast: WePupy – AirBnB for bathroom sharing (audio)