IMMI is all about the ‘Music’ (music video)
From Argentina to New York, IMMI‘s brand new video is all about the Music. PREVIOUSLY ON IMMI: IMMI: ‘Immigrants’ are just regular peeps (music video)
View ArticleHappy May Day from the Workers of the World (music video, lyrics)
Enjoy the Internacional, the world-wide (Get it? It’s international!) anthem of those red commie cabrones in Cuba and Venezuela and China and North Korea (and lurking in secretive cells everywhere...
View ArticleCinco de Mayo is an American holiday — and we’ve got the video!
QUESTION: How can you tell when Cinco de Mayo has turned into a totally American holiday? ANSWER: When gabachos from Tennessee start making rap videos about it in broken Spanglish! Dear Hootie (AKA...
View ArticleRitchie Valens birthday tribute: Cutty Flam does ‘Donna’ (video)
Ritchie Valens, 1950s Pacoima pocho teenage idol, would have been 73 years old today, except for that day the music died. Cutty Flam, the alt.rock.band from your black-and-white-retro future, made...
View ArticleButter Krust says ya’ll should ‘Butter Ya’self’ (NSFW music video)
You can search the Interwebs for days, but you won’t find a better rapping bananas, butter sticks and hotdog roll stop motion music video than Butter Ya’Self, featuring Butter Krust and Nana Splitz....
View ArticleVenice High School 11th Grade: ‘It’s Not My Fault’ (music video)
It’s Not My Fault is an original song and music video created by a group of 11th grade students at Venice High School. Their goal was to raise awareness and prevent physical, mental and emotional...
View ArticleSomething is happening but we don’t know what is (music video)
What exactly is going on as these three guys sing along to tune we don’t recognize playing hand-crafted instruments and paint bucket drums? They talk in English, sing in Spanish and play objets d’art...
View ArticleLas Cafeteras: This Land Is Your Land (music video + lyrics)
East Los homies Las Cafeteras are back with a son jarocho version of the Woody Guthrie’s classic This Land Is Your land with acoustic aplomb and some updated Spanglish lyrics: This Land is your Land...
View Article‘Is it the sound of coming riots?’ Outernational ‘Future Rock’ (video)
You say you don’t want to hear the same old sounds? Then you’ll like this new track from Outernational — Future Rock — produced by RATM’s Tom Morello. And we’ve got lyrics: This is Future Rock! This...
View ArticleCute 6-year-old boy sings, plays all instruments for ‘La Bamba’
Last week we featured La Bamba played and sung by scores of people all around the world. Today we bring you 6-year-old Jordan Bijan, a Canadian first grader who sings and plays all the instruments in...
View Article‘Latinos. We are all over the f___ing place’ (music video)
It’s Latino Heritage Month, and that means Latinos. We Are All Over the Fucking Place!
View ArticleLa Santa Cecilia: It’s a ‘Losing Game’ (performance video)
Grammy winnners La Santa Cecilia recorded this live performance of Elvis Costello’s Losing Game for KCRW radio last week and Marisoul’s smokey vocal and evocative accordion made for musical magic....
View ArticleMad as Hell Mariachi El Bronx has a brand ‘New Beat’ (lyrics video)
Pocholandia homies Mariachi El Bronx are mad as Hell and are not gonna take this anymore. There’s a New Beat in town, tu sabes. Advanced music appreciators — please correct us if we’re wrong, but we...
View ArticleEl Bob Dylan en Estilo Norteño: ‘It Must Be Santa’ (music video)
Who’s got a beard that’s long and white? Santa’s got a beard that’s long and white Who comes around on a special night? Santa comes around on a special night Special night, beard that’s white Must be...
View ArticleChicano Batman: Lost in ‘Cycles of Existential Rhyme’ (video)
So Cal homies Chicano Batman lay down a soulful groove and tell an eternal story in Cycles of Existential Rhyme. [POCHO amigo Giovanni Solis produced and directed the just-released video.]
View ArticleHOW IS THIS APPROPRIATE? Frank Zappa: You are what you is (video)
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention tested the limits of free expression and racial taboos in this 1984 music video for You Are What You Is. The hippie-light-show-solarized extravaganza features...
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(Jo) Raquel (Tejeda) Welch dances to ‘Raquel’ by Neon Neon (video)
The story so far: Euro art-rockers Neon Neon recorded a song called Raquel in 2007 and a year later someone (shuffle76?) made the song into a music video by mashing up old scenes of (Jo) Raquel...
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Why are the Hip Hop Hoodios so darn big in France? (videos)
Our mailbox here at POCHO fills up with a lot of questions, and none of them is “Why are the Hip Hop Hoodios — North America’s leading Jewish Latino bi-coastal hip hop collective — so gosh darn popular...
View ArticleMexican candidate in pointy boots dances in campaign video
Botas picudas (pointy boots) and shitty “tribal” music are the highlights of this campaign video for candidato del PAN Diego Leyva por el distrito 1 en Guanajuato. PREVIOUSLY ON GUANAJUATO: Mexican...
View ArticleLos Kumbia All Starz: ‘Speedy Gonzales’ (music video)
Los Kumbia All Starz (from Corpus Christi, Tejas!) take the classic Speedy Gonzales cartoon theme song to a whole other level. PREVIOUSLY ON SPEEDY GONZALES: Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos (SNES...
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