Last weekend at Pachanga Fest in Austin, we got the chance to hear a bluesy Guatemalan lady named Gaby Moreno whose stature belies some serious pipes.
8 June 2009
3 June 2009
Pachanga Fest 2009: The Only Thing Hotter Than the Weather Is The Music
By Cindy Casares at 11:07 AM.
Last weekend we had a great time at Austin’s Pachanga Fest, melting alive in the hot, Texas sun like some kind of damn candle left out on the patio after a wild, hippy, sex party. But all the nipple scorchings suddenly became worth it when our ears heard the transcendent notes of Dignan.
8 June 2008
La Conquista Brings The Neon To ¡Pachanga! Latino MusicFestvial
By Guanabee Staff at 5:50 PM.
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 video called La Conquista who may look like the Spice Girls, but actually compose, produce and [...]
4 June 2008
Straight Outta ¡Pachanga! DJ Manny En La Casa Para La Raza
By Guanabee Staff at 4:30 PM.
In part four of Cindy’s long, strange trip through Austin’s ¡Pachanga! Latino Music Festival, Cindy exposes us to Austin staple DJ Manny who freestyled for her atop his boombox bicycle backstage at the show. Cindy met him the night before at the ME-Television studios where he lectured her on the evils of capitalism after revealing [...]
3 June 2008
A Sensitive Interview With Maneja Beto At ¡Pachanga! Latino Music Festival
By Guanabee Staff at 3:45 PM.
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 come up with their sensitive, sensitive music. They, in turn, reward her with a special Boys [...]
Cindy Helps “Rock Y Roll Radio” Interview Girl In A Coma At ¡Pachanga! Festival
By Guanabee Staff at 11:30 AM.
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 Dacia Saenz (pictured in the above still frame) for a future episode of “Rock Y Roll [...]
1 June 2008
Maneja Beto Washes Over You With “El Gusto” Live at ¡Pachanga! Latino Music Festival
By Guanabee Staff at 4:00 PM.
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! yesterday on her digital point and shoot camera, hence the sketchy resolution and it was [...]
31 May 2008
Cindy Is Living A Dream At Pachanga Festival 2008
By Guanabee Staff at 6:20 PM.
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 Nortec Collective, La Conquista, Grupo Fantasma and more. Posts to come, but for now here’s a [...]
