7:00 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Music| Puerto Rico · 1 Comment
30 Aug 2009Something about la musica de Draco (aka Robi Draco Rosa) always gets me in, well, the mood. Check out his latest Paraiso Prometido.
12:01 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Music · 4 Comments
2 Aug 2009Mala was supposed to be at the playa today, pero the weather had other plans. Quizas if I listen to this joint/watch this video enough the bright sunshine colores and vibes the rain will stop.
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As relieved as we are that the weekend is near, sometimes it’s hard to shift into chill mode after a hard work week. I give you this classic (shoutout to all the VL readers who tell me they love 90s R&B and New Jack Swing) to help ease into the weekend. It always works for me.
(“Real” video here.)
Disfruta el weekend!
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8:52 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Music| New York City · Comments Off
22 Jun 2009I was just introduced to the music of Portuguese born, Cape Verdean rooted singer Lura, who just released her third album Eclipse. (clicking on the link will bring you to Lura’s website which plays music so if you’re at work make sure you have the volume off or have your headphones on).
Lura will be on tour in July, hitting Chicago, California, Massachusetts, and New York. Check out her website for more information.
7:09 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Arts| Education| Music| youth · 2 Comments
12 Jun 2009Coldplay’s Viva La Vida is perhaps the world’s most overplayed song these days. You may want to scream when you hear it, it’s so played out by MTV, Top 40 and soccer teams. But there’s something about this song. I was never particularly a fan of Coldplay until this album, and this song in particular has some magical quality, as evidenced in the video below.
As much as I love the escuincles, singing kids, instead of inspiring me, instead normally have a more nauseating effect on me. This video, however, actually moved me to tears. As the original title of this amateur video reads: remind me again why music shouldn’t be in public schools? Answer: it should be.
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10:57 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events| Music| New York City| Puerto Rico| literature · Comments Off
27 May 2009
You should go to Hispanic Panic tonite to see la Mala and friends, pero some of my other friends will be in Queens, tonite that you should check out.
12:10 pm By la Macha · Music| Women| media justice| society · Comments Off
6 May 2009Just discovered Mahina Movement, an awesome all woman group that is based in New York. From their website:
Mahina Movement is the phenomenal 3 women trio who combine poetry and song to create passionate music tied to flesh and bone, straight from the heart. Mahina Movement’s extraordinary melodies tell stories of the personal and political wrapped with courage, strength and awareness of human struggle and connection. 3 voices and one guitar blend into a powerful force, mixing folk, rock and rhymes in English, Spanish, and Tongan simmered with indigenous roots and culture. Mahina Movement’s rare sound and vision not only creates a raw, fierce artistic “movement” combining traditional and contemporary poetry, music, painting, theater, and ritual but also, is constantly generating a strong, steady “movement” for community—consisting of radical love, unstoppable activism and ruthless compassion.
I found this video online, which shows a bit of their song black and white/Jasmine. It cuts off at the end, but otherwise–wow. I love it.
7:08 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Music| Puerto Rico · Comments Off
7 Apr 2009This morning’s musical inspiration comes from Puerto Rican reggae group Cultura Profetica, who will be in NYC at S.O.B.’s next Tuesday.
4:23 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Entertainment| Music| Tejano Culture · 6 Comments
31 Mar 200914 years ago, Tejano music and Mexican American culture lost one of its most beloved artists. Selena was gunned down at the age of 23 outside of a hotel in her hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas 14 years ago today, on March 31st, 1995. Her funeral brought fans from all over the country to Corpus (myself among them) to bid a final farewell to the amazing artist and humanitarian.
14 years later, Selena’s legacy lives on. Her music is unparalleled in the Tejano genre, a genre she proudly represented as much as she proudly represented her Texas-Mexican (a.k.a. Tejano) heritage. There have been many imitators since, but there will never be another Selena.
If you’ve never heard Selena’s music or heard her perform, you’ll get a taste of her at her best in the above clip from her last concert.
6:25 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bizarro| Funny| Music · Comments Off
25 Feb 2009Now that VL is past the attacks and back in action, we are super happy around here. So happy, that we want to share the joy and what better way to do so than with music? I thought this amazing piece of audiovisual work would put you in the dancing mood on this, the humpiest of days, Wednesday. Plug in your audífonos, turn your screen away from the boss’ view and get ready for Requiem.
Am I the only one who actually remembers this song and video?
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