Music

Even our favorite puppets are thinking of Selena today:

My own Selena story started long before she became a legend.

The shooting death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes in Pasco, Washington, last month has led another family to share troubling details about the death of Brad Jensen, which happened last year in Pasco. Here is the report from local media. NBC Right Now/KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA | For more, read here.

Picture this: You watch West Side Story and you decide you want to be our next Rita Moreno. You know it takes exceptional talent, education and a massive amount of work to get there. You tirelessly work on your goal, keeping your eyes on the awards. You’re finally called for an audition and you meet […]

We turned our readers onto Kansas City band Making Movies a couple of years ago, and it looks like they’re continuing to tell stories of the Latino experience—not only through their music, but via community involvement and in sharing the stories of friends and fans they’ve made while touring. Recently, Making Movies connected with the […]

Listen on Podbean or iTunes. This month at Intelatin, I was invited to watch Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales) by Damián Szifron of Argentina. This film opens on February 20 in New York and Los Angeles. Eric Kohn at Indiewire says the following of the film: “Judging by the movies, Argentinians are itching to take a stand against the country’s backward social […]

There are certain topics in the Latino digital space that will always get attention, no matter when, no matter how. For example, Danny Trejo, Marc Anthony memes, silly videos about speaking Spanish, Chespirito and Selena Quintanilla. Especially Selena. Because, you know, “anything for Salinas.” Yesterday, the admiration was front and center on our Facebook site, after […]

It’s hard to follow in the awesomeness that is Adrian Carrasquillo’s magnum opus today: The Fight For Pitbull’s Political Soul. Rife with spot-on quotes, Carrasquillo gives a seemingly vapid subject the political scrutiny it deserves, as well as perhaps one of the greatest statements ever from Mr. 305 himself: I’m not here to be part of […]

Most people have heard by now that extremely catchy Enrique Iglesias song “Bailando” that won three Latin Grammy awards in November, including Song of the Year. Its English version has proved to be a very successful crossover hit as well. Perhaps a little behind in my celebration of the song, I only recently made efforts […]

In case you didn’t know, NPR just proclaimed “The Body Electric,” written by Alynda Lee Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff, as the 2014 Political Folk Song of the Year. Segarra is a Puerto Rican songwriter from the Bronx. She is now based in New Orleans, along with the rest of the band. This […]

Wake up and rise up, Mexico. This song was uploaded yesterday on YouTube. It is a group of youth expressing indignation towards the recent events in Mexico.

Unlike what some non-Latino reporters might tell you (seriously, you have to see who is criticizing this poll), the following poll conducted by Latino Decisions pretty much confirms yet again what anyone in the Latino media space has been telling you all along: immigration still matters to U.S. Latino voters. National Poll of U.S. Latinos […]

This video from YaMeCansé dropped yesterday. (h/t @Revolución3_0)

We at Latino Rebels are honored to present the latest from Olmeca: “The Browning of America,” in collaboration with Puente Vision and NDLON. Here’s the backstory behind this song and the music video: Olmeca is rising hip-hop figure from Los Angeles with his own family story of migration. He’s been writing pro-migrant songs and performing […]

Rebel Diaz, some of the hardest-working group of musicians we know, are back from their live Ferguson reporting to team up with The Reminders, who recently completed a successful tour opening for Ms. Lauryn Hill. With Aja Black on the chorus, and Big Samir with the Rebel Diaz brothers holding down the verses, the Kid Koi-produced, […]

Our friends at the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (NHFA) have a knack for cutting through the noise and getting to the issue. Last week, the NHFA wrote a letter to the respective heads of HBO and Starbucks about one very simple issue: Where are the Latino performers in the upcoming Concert for Valor […]

Last weekend, thousands of people from all over the country came together in the St. Louis/Ferguson area to participate in a weekend of resistance that organizers called #FergusonOctober. For those that have been living under a rock for the last couple of months, the small town of Ferguson, Missouri, exploded in resistance after the cold-blooded […]

The following video is from 2013. His name is Rojo Córdova. His poem is called “DosMilMex.” From the documentary “Hecho en México.”

 “…porque tus anhelos no bastaron para borrar el color de mi piel en las manos del mundo.” -Irma Pineda “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature’s laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping its dreams; it learned to […]

What does “MultiViral” mean to 15 artists from around the world? This video from Calle 13’s official channel explains.

Last night, a 2011 musical about Roberto Clemente is currently playing at Chicago’s NightBlue Performing Arts Company: The Chicago Sun-Times profiled lead actor Modesto Lacén and playwright Luis Caballero: “I think Modesto is one of the best actors of his generation,” Caballero says. “To watch Modesto is to watch Clemente.” Lacén knew right from the […]