Music

This. Is. Awesome. Meet DMK, a Depeche Mode cover band from Bogotá, Colombia. And this. Just give their page a like right now.

The following video is amazing. Watch. For more about it and the making of it, click here.

We saw this on the Buzzfeed page of Adrian Carrasquillo. It is ridiculously cute, perhaps the cutest this we have ever seen.

Originally published by Luis Marentes at blogs.mass.edu “A los mojados les dedico mi canción”, Los Tigres del Norte On Sunday, October 20 Mexico’s La Jornada ran several stories on the US Latin@ experience. Among them was one focusing on migration songs. The piece focuses mainly on Mexican corridos, a genre which, as Américo Paredes and María Herrera-Sobek have shown in their groundbreaking works, […]

Today legend Celia Cruz would have been 88 years old. Born October 21, 1925 in Havana, Cruz was and always will be “The Queen of Salsa.” Cruz is no longer with us, since she died in 2003, but her legacy is forever. Google made sure that the world remembered her today with one very cool […]

You can catch Chapter 1 here and Chapter 2 here. Indie-inspired, Latin-hearted group Del Exilio brings you new music videos from their new album PANAMERICANO, blending telenovela episodes with traditional music videos.  Check out this web video series that captures the story of how an immigration reform revolution is sparked, and how a young man’s identity is transformed […]

You can catch Chapter 1 here. Indie-inspired, Latin-hearted group Del Exilio brings you new music videos from their new album PANAMERICANO, blending telenovela episodes with traditional music videos.  Check out this web video series that captures the story of how an immigration reform revolution is sparked, and how a young man’s identity is transformed by a journey through […]

Indie-inspired, Latin-hearted group Del Exilio brings you new music videos from their new album PANAMERICANO, blending telenovela episodes with traditional music videos.  Check out this web video series that captures the story of how an immigration reform revolution is sparked, and how a young man’s identity is transformed by a journey through North and South America. You can […]

I’m biased. And it’s for obvious reasons. My brother Fernando Varela is part of FORTE, the tenor group entering Tuesday night’s Top 12 on “America’s Got Talent” as one of the Acts to Watch. The journey of the group the Latino Rebels have designated our “Official Multicultural Tenor Trio” has been beyond the wildest dreams […]

We love Rebel Diaz. Always have. Always will. Now they dropped this video this week. We love them even more. There is basically nothing about this song that we don’t love. An instant classic. Catch one of our favorite bands here.

Tonight legendary band Molotov tweeted the following: Molotov’s Official Statement… pic.twitter.com/zr0PsSJbnD — Molotov (@MolotovBanda) July 30, 2013 The tweet displayed a statement by the band: This statement was shared in response to the story of Esteban Navarro, a gay Chilean teen who was attacked last month. Here is what the HuffPost reported on July 9: […]

In an effort to support new and emerging artists, the streets around the popular Williamsburg, Brooklyn eatery Cubana Social were transformed this past Saturday into a landscape of flickering images and experimental, multimedia movie reels projected onto buildings, into abandoned alleyways and onto construction sites by Absolut vodka’s Open Canvas project. Open Canvas will move […]

This is the year of Daft Punk, for sure. After we shared the Obama “Get Lucky” dub, a fan gave us the following video. This is Sangre Azteca with their version of “Uruapan Mexican Loqui.” We are still figuring out why some of the subtitles are weird, but other than that, we are dancing this […]

To all those online haters who were slamming Sebastien de La Cruz for singing the national anthem last night at the NBA Finals in San Antonio, we will let Sebastien share the final world on all this. This is what he said this morning on local San Antonio television. That’s how you do it.

UPDATE: Sebastien de la Cruz responded to the haters with 100% class. This one came from the Tumblr page of Public Shaming, and it is yet another racist example of how anti-Latino hatred runs deep in the social media world of the United States of America. Last night in San Antonio before Game 3 of […]

Last year we wrote about VIVA LUCHE LIBRE, a short documentary about one of Mexico’s greatest sport and cultural traditions. Tomorrow June 9, the film will screen on the Jersey Shore, as part of the Lighthouse International Film Festival. VIVA LUCHA LIBRE is an official selection of the festival, and it will be screened with a […]

Today Latino Rebels were part of an inaugural roundtable discussion broadcast on NPR’s AltLatino. Our founder, @julito77, joined the shows co-cohosts, Jasmine Gard and Felix Contreras, and our friend Marisa Treviño of Latina Lista. We talked about three topics: “Devious Maids,” the tragedy of undocumented minors entering the U.S. alone, and the developments that led […]

So yesterday we shared our readers’ first answers to the question, “What Is the Best Pro-Immigration Song Ever Recorded?” The response to that list was so positive that it lead to this post. Yes, we get even more suggestions, and here they are. Feel free to share your own suggestions. Rage Against the Machine’s “People […]

Earlier this week we asked our Facebook community a very simple question: “What is the Best Pro-Immigration Song Ever Recorded?” We received such an engaging and diverse response that we decided to share some of the selections here. Calle 13’s “Pal Norte” La Santa Cecilia’s “Ice El Hielo” Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” Molotov’s “Frijolero” Los […]

This Cinco de Mayo a bilingual rock band from Kansas City will celebrate a milestone of their own—and it involves a band of original Chicano “Rebeldes.” Making Movies, an AfroLatino-influenced indie rock band currently on a regional tour that has taken them through Puerto Rico, Panama, the Midwest, Southwest and now California, will open for […]

In the midst of a national tour (dates here) with internationally known reggae group SOJA, the Panamanian-born, Oakland-bred duo Los Rakas found time for a special May Day release called “Mi País.” The song is off their upcoming album, the double-disc “El Negrito Dun Dun & Ricardo” which will see release on their label, Soy […]