MondayAugust182008

When Mexicans curse it’s like the dirtiest sailor and the meanest pimp all rolled into one, awesome, cowboy-hatted pregnant guy in his third trimester. So when Edgardo Morales began dubbing over old episodes of He-Man and Knight Rider with...

FridayAugust012008

Anton “Trashman” Dunn has been arrested after posting videos online claiming to have tampered with Gerber baby food with the aim of poisoning Latino / Black children. He claims to know Gerber employees who, at his behest, added cyanide...

MondayJuly212008

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...

TuesdayJuly152008

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...

MondayJuly142008

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...

FridayJuly112008

Here’s a montage of America’s most highly paid news journalists getting all flustered over exactly how to describe Jesse Jackson’s threats against Barack Obama’s nuts. Also, Fox News has been reporting that there was more said by Jackson than...

FridayJuly112008

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...

WednesdayJuly092008

This ad is completely ridonkulous on every level. So ridonkulous that the accompanying mariachi jingle is actually the least nonsensical thing about it. It features a hotdog and a bottle of French’s mustard on a date at a restaurant....

FridayJuly042008
FridayJuly042008

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...

ThursdayJuly032008

In case you were wondering just how real David “I’ve never been kissed except in Gay Fan Fiction” Archuleta rolls, here’s a video of him speaking Spanish to a fan. And if you’re bilingually challenged here’s a translation: In...

TuesdayJuly012008

Guillermo Del Toro was on Jimmy Kimmel last week on the occasion of the premier of Hellboy II in Los Angeles. First of all, we love his accent. He really is a Mexican! Secondly, he shared with Jimmy that...

FridayJune272008

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...

ThursdayJune262008

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...

WednesdayJune252008

VBS.TV, the official online video network of people in baggy skinny jeans, oh and of Vice magazine, recently took a look at the complex issue of immigration for their Mexico issue. The result? Listening to stoned sounding skater illegals...

FridayJune202008

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...

FridayJune202008

There’s a chain of exercise studios called, “Salsa Babies” that helps new moms dance back into shape with their babies strapped onto their chests. What won’t yuppies think of next?! Surprisingly, the babies tend to fall asleep halfway through...

ThursdayJune192008

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...

TuesdayJune172008

“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...

FridayJune132008

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...

ThursdayJune122008

Happy Father’s Day! Haha, surprise, baby. Kidding! Kidding. Kidding… So, anyway, in honor of this lovely and special excuse to sell greeting cards, golf club memberships and the idea that all fathers play golf (our dad would rather be...

MondayJune092008

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...

SundayJune082008

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...

TuesdayJune032008

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...

TuesdayJune032008

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...

SundayJune012008

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!...

WednesdayMay282008

America has no problem electing a president who was too drunk throughout college to remember his cocaine problem, but when it comes to a woman presidential candidate, 2.8 seconds of hip swaying to an Enrique Iglesias song with an...

TuesdayMay272008

When Jimmy Kimmel’s not drunk or yelling at Gawker editors, he is known to create a funny video or two. This one of David Archuleta as the new face of Monchichi almost qualifies....

TuesdayMay272008

Ah, the 70’s. When all you had to do to be a famous Latino was have a great body and act dumb. Wait. We just described the entire cast of “Viva Hollywood.” Maybe the good old days are still...

FridayMay232008

Here’s one more video clip from our new favorite reggaetoneros The Toners. Okay they’re only a pretend band, but that doesn’t make this song any less real....

ThursdayMay222008

“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...

FridayMay162008

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...

SundayMay112008

Just when we think nothing in the world could make us want to have kids, along comes a video of an awesome baby who bites fingers and his big brother who sounds like Eliza Doolittle. “Chahlay bit may!” Come...

ThursdayMay082008

There’s been a lot of talk since our last post on the Strong City cult guy Wayne Bent aka Michael Travesser in New Mexico, who thinks he’s the Messiah sent to earth to boink young virgin girls. Perhaps commenter...

MondayMay052008

This video features a song about the authentic Mexican experience written by Guanabee editor Cindy Casares. She’s actually the fat, white guy in the poncho. Be kind. Video [Youtube]...

FridayMay022008

It’s that time again. No, not time for you to snort coke off a midget’s tits. That happens about 12 hours from now, overzealous. We’re talking about the Friday Fresa Flashback. This week, we’re enjoying a little Emo Cumbia...

FridayMay022008

Ah, quinceañeras. The one time in your life where you can pretty much get away with doing any sort of stupid shit that pops into your head. It’s like a wedding, but with the probable end result of giving...

WednesdayApril302008

KGBT TV in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas (represent!) interviewed Emilio Navaira’s family recently to see how he’s faring. In addition to learning that his sons are totes not Tejano cowboys, we also learn Emilio has been watching...

TuesdayApril222008

Enrique Iglesias. Being interviewed by his surgically removed mole. Arhghdjkhsgakl....

MondayApril142008

It seems Vatosaurus is through trying to get Barack Obama elected and is concentrating his efforts on something more important—getting himself laid. In this video he explains why he can’t get a date while proving that the people on...

FridayApril112008

Hey, we like the Barcelonian (Is that a word? It is now.) Pinker Tones. They wear ties. Also, they’re playing the Vans Warped Tour this summer all over the place. You should go watch them! For now, though, we...

FridayApril042008

During her Thomas Beatie pregnant man interview yesterday, Oprah put on her tough journalist hat and asked him what kind of tool he’s packing. In this clip, soccer moms across America learn that all fetuses look the same in...

WednesdayApril022008

This is what the internet is for, people. Who says you can’t get naked on camera AND have meaningful discourse? In this video, extremely edible Craig Bierko (you may remember him as the jazz musician with ADD from Sex...

WednesdayApril022008

Genteeeeee!!! Vatosaurus is back and this time he is offering his services as the maestro of love. Which kind of reminds of us this priest we knew back in grade school. Ewww! Anyways, if this is the kind of...

ThursdayMarch202008

Hey, you guys. There are some people running for president. With all the governor fucking that’s been going on around here, we kind of forgot. Fortunately someone sent us this in the mail and reminded us why we love...

ThursdayMarch202008

Okay, it’s kind of obvious how we ended up finding this video tribute to the legendary Montgomery Flea Market, but we thought it was worth sharing. It’s a ballad version of the song recorded by some weird, Jesus-y and...

WednesdayMarch192008

We are big fans of Nortec Collective and lowriders. This video features both. It’s a performance from Bostich + Fussible (aka Ramon Amezcua and Pepe Mogt respectively) recorded live in Mexicali, Mexico. (Music starts about 1:00 in.) Video [Youtube]...

MondayMarch102008

We’d so rather think of Gabriel Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna making out to this song than these two, but what are you going to do? Diego Maradona appeared on stage Saturday at Marco Antonio Solis’ performance at the...

FridayMarch072008

A poor man’s Flight Of the Conchords duo called Rhett & Link have written an amusing melody to accompany the goodbye speech of one American Idol Season 7 reject named Alexis Cohen—who kind of scares the shit out of...

FridayMarch072008

Meet…this little girl. We didn’t get her name, but where she’s headed, it doesn’t really matter. When we first viewed her dancing from behind, we thought she was some kind of loose midget woman. The way she suggestively shakes...

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