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WATCH: Temple B’Nai Pocho Wishes You A Happy Rosh HaShanah 5782
Enjoy this musical Happy Jewish New Year greeting from our friends at Temple B’Nai Pocho.
The Jewish High Holiday of Rosh HaShanah, which marks 5782 years since the Creation of the World, starts tomorrow, Monday, at sundown.
Happy New Year y Shanah Tovah tambien.
Mas…WATCH: Temple B’Nai Pocho Wishes You A Happy Rosh HaShanah 5782
Always Look for the Union Label: Music vids for Labor Day Weekend 2021
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 2021
Señor Flavio y Su Banda: Invasion of Beings from Another World
Argentina’s Señor Flavio first made his name as a member of Rock en Español superstars Los Fabulososos Cadillacs. Here he offers a ska-toned pessimistic pandemic warning — La Invasión de los Seres de Otro Mundo has already begun.
PREVIOUSLY ON SEÑOR FLAVIO::
Mas…Señor Flavio y Su Banda: Invasion of Beings from Another World
But Whitey’s on suborbit
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
I can’t pay no doctor bill, but Bezos on the moon
- Shoutout to Gil Scott-Heron’s WHITEY ON THE MOON:
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and Whitey’s on the moon)
I can’t pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey’s on the moon)
Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still.
(while Whitey’s on the moon)
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 WAR), Howard Scott (guitar, Lowrider Band), Harold Brown (drums, Lowrider Band), B.B. Dickerson (bass, RIP), Lee Oskar (harmonica, Lowrider Band). Not pictured, Papa Dee Allen (RIP, percussion).
- DISCLOSURE: I was WAR’s National Director of Album Promotion for a while and ate so often at the Sunset Grill (like in the Eagles song) I could run a tab.
Mas…L.A. OGs WAR (the ORIGINAL band): ‘Cinco de Mayo’ (1981 complete)
Happy May Day 2021 from the Workers of the World (video, lyrics)
Enjoy the Internacional, the world-wide (Get it? It’s international!) anthem of those commie cabrones in Russia and Cuba and Venezuela and China and North Korea (and lurking in secretive corona-is-a-hoax cells here in the Homeland but the lamestream media won’t tell you that).
Today, May 1, is May Day AKA International Workers’ Day, when the comrades sing this stirring appeal, with its hummable melody and a vague vision of making the future great again that’s hard to disagree with, except maybe the LUCHA FINAL aspect.
Mas…Happy May Day 2021 from the Workers of the World (video, lyrics)
New Smithsonian video celebrates the art of POCHO Jefe Lalo Alcaraz
The Smithsonian American Art Museum writes:
Artist Lalo Alcaraz created the striking digital portrait “I Stand with Emma” of Emma González after watching the high school senior advocate for stronger gun control in an impassioned speech days after surviving the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Mas…New Smithsonian video celebrates the art of POCHO Jefe Lalo Alcaraz
The Amber Ruffin Show: Why we need a ‘White History Month’
The PEACOCK star has some learning for you.
Los Hip Hop Hoodíos spark ‘Ocho Kandelikas’ for Chanukah (video)
Feliz Chanukah from POCHO and the Hip Hop Hoodíos!
‘Happy Asian Thanksgiving’ from the Fung Brothers (video)
American children of immigrants are all the same when it comes to dealing with Thanksgiving.
Y digamos: “Amén.”
POCHO History 101: Undocumented Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving (video)
The Pilgrims, after all, were boat people fleeing religious oppression, ordinary families seeking freedom in a new land. But no one expects the Algonquin Migra. [Video by the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors.]
Hip Hop Hoodíos: ‘Mexican Miller (The Self-Hating Stephen Miller Song)’
Former nice Jewish boy and current White House official Stephen Miller coagulates coordinates Trump’s bloody anti-immigrant message and policies.
This begs the musical question: What would Miller rap about if he were a self-hating Mexican and not a self-hating Jew?
Mas…Hip Hop Hoodíos: ‘Mexican Miller (The Self-Hating Stephen Miller Song)’
WATCH: Jovita Idár, Mexican American journalist who exposed lynching
Jovita Idár, a Mexican American activist and journalist (1885-1946), helped organize the first Mexican American civil rights conference in 1911 to address racism, lynching, and dismal educational opportunities for Mexican American children.
Mas…WATCH: Jovita Idár, Mexican American journalist who exposed lynching
WATCH: Temple B’Nai Pocho Wishes You A Happy Rosh HaShanah 5781
Enjoy this musical Happy Jewish New Year greeting from our friends at Temple B’Nai Pocho.
The Jewish High Holiday of Rosh HaShanah, which marks 5781 years since the Creation of the World, starts tomorrow, Friday, at sundown.
Happy New Year y Shanah Tovah tambien.
Mas…WATCH: Temple B’Nai Pocho Wishes You A Happy Rosh HaShanah 5781
Singer Nancy Sanchez: Why vote? ‘The Kids Are Still In Cages’
For singer-songwriter Nancy Sanchez — brought to the United Estates as a babe-in-arms — this election is personal.
PS: She’s not a creep.
Mas…Singer Nancy Sanchez: Why vote? ‘The Kids Are Still In Cages’
Los Lobos: ‘One Time, One Night in America’ (July 4 video, lyrics)
Sometimes homies Los Lobos sound like they are John Cougar Mellencamp’s or Tom Petty’s brothers from another mother. This is one of those times. These all-American stars sing all-American stories, like One Time, One Night in America. Respect.
Mira los lyrics:
Mas…Los Lobos: ‘One Time, One Night in America’ (July 4 video, lyrics)
Via black-ish: Schoolhouse Rock, The Roots on Juneteenth: ‘I am a slave’
Do you know the history of Juneteenth?
Schoolhouse Rock and The Roots explain. (From black-ish, Season 4.)
The complete I am a slave song:
Mas…Via black-ish: Schoolhouse Rock, The Roots on Juneteenth: ‘I am a slave’
Lalo Alcaraz: How I drew this viral cartoon (video)
I drew this cartoon last week after Native Americans refused to let South Dakota Gov. Kathy Noem open highways through their sovereign territory.
WATCH: Cinco de Mayo at Home with POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz
POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz tells our friend Abelardo de La Pena, Jr. (LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes) what it’s like to be named a finalist for the uber-prestigious Pulitzer Prize, discusses his childhood growing up on the border, and his mission to put Latinos on TV and the big screen.
Mas…WATCH: Cinco de Mayo at Home with POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz
Happy May Day 2020 from the Workers of the World (video, lyrics)
Enjoy the Internacional, the world-wide (Get it? It’s international!) anthem of those commie cabrones in Russia and Cuba and Venezuela and China and North Korea (and lurking in secretive anti-lockdown cells here in the Homeland but the lamestream media won’t tell you that).
Today, May 1, is May Day AKA International Workers’ Day, when the comrades sing this stirring appeal, with its hummable melody and a vague vision of making the future great again that’s hard to disagree with, except maybe the LUCHA FINAL aspect.
Mas…Happy May Day 2020 from the Workers of the World (video, lyrics)
WATCH: Lock Down Quarantine Reservation Blues
POCHO contributor Ricardo Cate directs and stars in this just-released music video Lockdown Reservation Quarantine Blues. You think you’ve got it bad? Ricardo and the fam have to Pow Wow from Home! Music by Adrian Wall.
How does Lalo Alcaraz do what he does?
Lalo’s latest editorial cartoon, “CORONATION”, not only delivers a powerful visual indictment of our deluded self-crowned moron monarch, but comes with a bonus track: a 2-minute time lapse video.
Vanessa Del Fierro: ‘Con Este Tequila, I Will Forget You Tonight’ (video y lyrics)
Our favorite mariachi, Vanessa Del Fierro, has a big Texas voice and incredible emotional depth. As the leader of Mariachi Las Coronelas, she’s brought her San Antonio crew crossover popularity with an eclectic mix of traditional tunes and surprise pop favorites.
She’s been teasing this video on her Facebook for a while and now we have it!
She sent us this email last night:
Mas…Vanessa Del Fierro: ‘Con Este Tequila, I Will Forget You Tonight’ (video y lyrics)
This is the karaoke video that’s gone viral: MY CORONA
Sing along with MY CORONA — the karaoke video that’s gone viral!
Chicana on the Edge Reviews ‘American Dirt’ by Jeanine Cummins (video)
Regina Rodríguez-Martin, aka blogger Chicana on the Edge, read and reviewed Jeanine Cummins American Dirt as a public service.
Her review starts like this:
Three weeks ago I got an email announcing a new book club for women over 50, and the first novel they were going to read was Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt. The novel focuses on a Mexican woman’s journey from her home in Acapulco to the U.S, crossing without papers in extremely dangerous ways.
Then I read about the book’s big controversy. Latinos were angry about the red carpet treatment given to this book written by a white woman because Mexican Americans telling similar stories don’t get nearly as much attention from publishers. The most scathing review was written by Myriam Gurba (and I urge you to read it). I would usually pass on a book like this.
Mas…Chicana on the Edge Reviews ‘American Dirt’ by Jeanine Cummins (video)
Hey Vato! presents ‘A Cholo Valentine’ (NSFW video)
As Vatos Smiley and Chuy search for the true meaning of Valentine’s Day — and the place of amor in this troubled world — Smiley’s sister Angie sets them straight on how VDay REALLY works. [NSFW F-bomb.]
