AH, ONE DAY you’ll kick back on the porch and tell your great grandchildren how back in the day, music was encoded on huge black vinyl discs that spun around in one place, sodas cost only a buck, and “Snoop” was the Doggfather’s name.
WELCOME ONCE AGAIN to your Friday Vinyl Reminda! Let’s kick off our Viernes with a short splash of sweet, sweet music as it can only be experienced on vinyl. First one to name this song in the comments wins a chocolate coffee bean that I will eat in your honor.
IT’S FRIDAY, and one of the oldest blog traditions I can think of is where we shake out the spirit with la música! I don’t always follow it, but I think it arose out of an organic need. So many of us follow such dire happenings day after day…it is taxing. We must fight on! And also, we must dance.
EPISODE DOS of this new vloglicious conversation wherein Nezua finishes talking about the changes which see us into 2009 here at The Unapologetic Mexican blog. Much delicious coffee went into the making of this video, and probably should be sipped while watching. It wouldn’t hurt.
HISTORY REVEALS PATTERNS and patterns reveal truths. Truth is not always beautiful. Sometimes it is very brutal and bloody, like freedom. Freedom is a time for music and so is war. A revolutionary hand can strum a guitar or wield a machete. Or both.
¡VIERNES! And we usher Friday in with a Psychedelic Palate Cleanser. No peyote needed! Continuing a recent tradition here at UMX, I offer you a double-feature YouTube in a mestizolicious manner of recognizing the duality that is (at least in my experience) at the core of human existence and perception.
HERE’S A SHORT PERFORMANCE by the not-yet-renowned Luna S. Herrera, reprising a duet she performed with the Virtual Tracy Chapman in 2007. For the 2008 version she chooses a recorder instead of keys and experiments with many finger positions and one or two notes. Okay, maybe one.
HERE’S A LITTLE MUSIC with confrontational soul. Here’s a little textual feeling taking a confrontational role. Hearing about a silver spoon in the mouth at birth and privilege I begin thinking about how it infects thinking and how it infects all our thinking potentially. Which leads me to thinking about those choosing to vote third party right now, or who are still “Undecided.”
HEY HEY It’s Friday! And that means the typical workweek ends and spirits rise and here at UMX it means music (sometimes) and today, a long table, un hombre hugging his guitarra, and very energetic and beautiful mujeres in interesting eyewear dancing to strains of sweet brass and singing beautiful palabras. ¡Disfrute, señoras y señores!
LET THE MUSIC of the powerful and inspiring and beautiful musician Lila Downs soothe and lift you into the start of this weekend. And may your moments today and tomorrow be as harmonious and energizing as her voice and talents are.
WE ALL KNOW THAT there is a proper format for each type of critical essay or review. And I am happy to review Bajofondo’s latest album, and happy to have been asked to do so. But I won’t be hitting that expected “music critic” format, because, as the person who wrote me put it, “we [...]
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