Thirty-nine year-old Gorki Águila leads a Cuban band called Porno Para Ricardo and they fucking rock—(as witnessed by the video for “El Cake” after the jump.) Also their music is a wee bit political. Like the video for “El...

Feeling a little too productive? Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Pandora, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Last.FM, Vimeo, LiveJournal and obsessive blog refreshing not enough to distract you? Well, friend, that’s why the internet has brought you Project Playlist, a Facebook and MySpace...

Ever wonder why some singers’ vocals sound like a robot hiccuping? It’s because that’s basically all they are. Take this video of Britney Spears during a concert as proof. The feed from her live mic has isolated her vocals...

LeRoi Moore, the 46 year-old saxophone virtuoso and founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, died at a hospital in Los Angeles yesterday due to complications from an ATV accident that occurred on his farm in Virginia earlier this...

We’ve been obsessed with the song, “Te Lo Pido Por Favor,” all week. So obsessed that we couldn’t decide whether to post the original Juan Gabriel version or the Jaguares version or the grupo Pesado version. So, we posted...

Australian singer Sia is in talks to work with Christina Aguilera on the latter’s upcoming album. We’re a huge fan of Sia’s music and an even bigger fan of Christina’s general batshit craziness, so we think this can only...

This afternoon’s “An Unexpected Mexico,” show at SummerStage in New York’s Central Park has a last minute line-up change. According to the site, Alejandro Escovedo won’t be appearing due to “serious illness.” We hope he gets well soon, but...

Can you believe this shit came out 15 years ago? God damn. Los del Rio, the duo behind “La Macarena,” are celebrating its quinces by making sure your dad dances to it at family functions well into the next...

Riblet! Your first single. We! Are! Proud of you! Say, we are proud of you! David Archuleta’s first single, “Crush,” premiered this morning on New York Radio Station Z100 and the video cameras were there to capture every excruciating...

Conner Oberst recorded his latest, self-titled album in Tepoztlán, Mexico. (What is it with the hipsters and Mexico these days?) It’s the first time he’s not recorded under the name Bright Eyes since high school and he decided to...

Apropos of nothing except that we saw Mama Mia last weekend (sue us!), this week’s Friday Flatchback features obscure Puerto Rican boy band Los Chicos performing a Spanish version of—you guessed it—“Mama Mia.” The band was created in the...

Miley Cyrus’ new album “Breakout” has been out for a couple of days now, so we took a look at the iTunes customer reviews to see what America thinks. We’re afraid it’s not pretty. With a voting system that...

Did you ever think you could see someone in two kinds of brownface simultaneously? Well, here it is! Natalie Portman took the time to star in a music video for current boyfriend Devendra Barnhart’s “Carmensita.” She plays an Indian...

Last week at the Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York City, Guanabee editor Cindy Casares had the chance to catch up with Camilo Lara of Mexican Institute of Sound. Besides being the most adorable rock star she’s ever...

Remember when a Starbucks opening was the white, gentrified nail in the coffin for your hood? Well now that they’re closing 600 stores across the country, we guess Starbucks can’t afford to stick to that model anymore because they’re...

Guanabee met up with Mexican singer and actress Ximena Sariñana at the Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York City. After getting lost trying to find the bathrooms (awkward), we sat down with Ximena and talked about her music,...

This new Radiohead video for “House of Cards” (from our favorite Radiohead album yet, “In Rainbows”) was created with something called Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Yeah, we have no idea, but it looks cool as hell. If you...

Guanabee Editor Cindy Casares had the opportunity to interview Camilo Lara of the Mexican Institute of Sound on Friday at New York’s Latin Alternative Music Conference. In addition to being the nicest rock star she’s ever met, (We totally...

Lots of good things come out of attending the Latino Alternative Music Conference: A lanyard with one’s name on it, skinny boys in tight pants, and a gift bag (FREE SHIT OMG!) that includes a puhretty nice compilation album....

This week Guanabee has been skulking around looking for long haired freaky people at the 9th annual Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York City otherwise known as LAMC. This young man, Alex*Cuba (who for some reason puts an...

From tomorrow, Tuesday the 9th through the 21st, you can get French first lady Carla Bruni’s latest album, Comme Si De Rien N’Etait (Like It’s Nothing) for free. Not too shabby, non? All those interested can visit Carla’s website...

This week’s very special Fourth of July-themed Friday Flatchback is a video by Guatemalan artist Ricardo Arjona performing his 1996 hit, “Si El Norte Fuera El Sur,” from the album of the same name. In addition to giving us...

Spain’s electro wonders, The Pinker Tones, have been unleashed on America this summer for an entire Warped Tour of fun that coincides with the release of their brand new album, Wild Animals. Recently Guanabee Editor Cindy Casares spoke to...

As far as we can find there is no official “Lookout Weekend” video from Debbie Deb, so we’ll have to settle for this concert version she performed in Houston as part of her “Freestyle Bomb Tour 2007.” (That name...

Daddy Yankee greased up his mouthbreather Caesar haircut especially for you on his latest video for the single “Pose.” It has all the elements you could possibly hope for in a Daddy Yankee video: Superfluous use of sunglasses indoors?...

In all honesty, we don’t know what to make of this Ecuadorian musical expression of grief about the attacks on the World Trade Center from Andean techno-folklore artist Delfin Quishpe except to say that sometimes we sincerely love the...

So, fine, maybe Soko isn’t Latina, but she does live in France, so she’s Latin and the subtitles to this song are in Portuguese, so. Whatever. We really love this song! Besides, we think that after the whole Alizée...

Hey kids, it’s end of day Friday and you know what that means: Es la hora! Es la hora! for Friday’s flatchback! This week’s flatchback features Brazilian entertainment phenom and record holder for the all-time best selling album in...

Vice magazine, that impossibly hip publication that makes us want to punch anyone wearing a keffiyeh, has a new Mexican issue, creatively entitled Vice Mexico. In honor of it, their online video network VBS has devoted some time to...

Marimar ¡Ow! Thalia has revealed that she was inspired to make her latest album, “Lunada,” by a desire to escape to the beach while pregnant. You know, to drown her sorrows and unborn child in UV rays and rivers...

“In The Heights” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony award acceptance speech rap, it turns out, is part of a long history of ridiculous freestyling. Like the one in this video we found of Lin announcing his show was about to...

The early 90’s may have been the best time in history for Mexican, pop trash. As witnessed by this little diddy entitled, “No Podras,” from 1992 that we wore out our very first DVD player on. It’s “sung” by...

Mexifornian Julieta Venegas pretty much rocked her recent “MTV Unplugged” set, accompanied by our current girlcrush and impeccable bang-haver, Spanish singer La Mala Rodriguez. Watch Julieta perform “Limon y Sal” and the two duet on “Eres Para Mi.” And...

Solange Knowles has a new video out for the first single, “I Decided,” off her second album “Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams,” and it’s kind of awesome with its sixties sound and cutout, historic footage on vibrant, colorized...

One thing that was strikingly obvious last weekend at ¡Pachanga! Latino Music Festival is that Latinas are out in full force in the independent music world. And nowhere was that more apparent than with the band in the above...

The Moz is releasing a(nother) greatest hits collection, so do please allow him to hit you about the face with his rockingness and perhaps a tambourine as he croons “All You Need Is Me” in a blue v-neck he...

Kat Deluna, that teeny tiny singer with a big, huge voice [Ed. note: For serious. We’ve seen her perform live and the juxtaposition of this girl’s size and her voice is kind of disconcerting.] is remixing her single “Am...

It’s time for part three of Guanabee Editor Cindy Casares’ coverage of the ¡Pachanga! Latino Music Festival in Austin, Texas. In this segment, Cindy sits down with Maneja Beto members Alec Padron and Bobby Garza to ask how they...

The above video is our second installment of Guanabee Editor Cindy Casares’ recent weekend trip to Austin, Texas for the ¡Pachanga! Latino Music Festival. It features our old friends Girl In A Coma being interviewed by Paul Saucido and...

Portuguese / Dominican model Sessilee Lopez flashes her lights in Kanye West’s new video for ‘Flashing Lights.” Actually, she just kind of lurks around in the shadows looking terribly stylish and creepy. We love the video’s dark, goth vibe...

This video features Cindy’s new favorite band Maneja Beto from Austin, Texas covering “El Gusto”— a song that perfectly showcases the hauntingly beautiful Maneja Beto sound that’s been known to make grown bloggers cry. She shot it at ¡Pachanga!...

Guanabee Editor Cindy Casares is in Texas this weekend covering the first annual Pachanga Latino Music Festival and the end of Latino Music Month in Austin. She spent all day yesterday at the ME Television studios interviewing bands like...

Molotov’s latest video for “Guacala Que Rico” is almost as delicious as, say, a changuich a la chichona. We’ll overlook the fact that they aim for “progressive politics” (we loathe the term “progress,” but that’s another matter entirely) at...

“The Toners” is a mockumentary film in development about reggaeton that, according to their MySpace page, is still looking for funds. Aren’t we all? In the above scene, the guys defend allegations that their music is sexist while also...

Here’s a little mathemagicks for you: [(Avril Lavigne - Faux Punk Postering) + (Gwen Stefani - Gross Orientalism)] x Glitter = Prima J. Janelle and Jessica Martinez are cousins who are making rainbow-colored waves in the pop world and...

Why is this woman allowed to sing? And, more importantly, why is she allowed to writhe around on her hands and knees in front of what appears to be a group of eight-year-old boys? Watch Fergie as she takes...

We’d never say that fresas listened to Kid Frost back in the day, or anyone in Latin America, for that matter. (So don’t write in!) But when we came across this video for “La Raza,” we couldn’t resist posting...

Joaquin Phoenix, whose voice you’ve already masturbated listened to in Walk the Line, is creating an album with the Charlatans’ Tim Burgess. Because he knows how to play the guitar and he’s famous, so why not: “Once he learned...

Someone went through all the trouble of screengrabbing a bunch of images of David Archuleta in his Ford Mustang bullfighting costume and then posting them on the internet. Which we think is really creepy, as he is a minor,...

American Idol is as American as fat people at Six Flags which is why Ford tapped them to participate in a TV spot that features four finalists, (including Our Chuleta), bullfighting a Mustang in front of a Spanish mission...