4/26/2011
When Sa·l Hernandez and Caifanes covered the cumbia classic "La Negra Tomasa" in 1988, they kick-started what would later become the Latin alternative movement, a genre that fuses traditional Latin mus …
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4/26/2011
They're the gals who put their hearts first, pledging their love in song, then moaning low when it all goes south. They hold down the home and hold court in the honky-tonk; they're tough yet tender, st …
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4/26/2011
The past and the present meet in Deep Cuts, where a 1940 recording of "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes," from country trailblazers the Carter Family, shares the stage with Gretchen Wilson, a moder …
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4/26/2011
Here's something to mull over this evening: Bobcat Goldthwait was one of the first true alt-comedy acts, a slovenly antihero caught somewhere between the slacker generation and the nuthouse. Of course, …
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4/26/2011
If you know Patton Oswalt only as the voice of the lead rat in, well, Ratatouille, click "At Midnight I Will Kill George Lucas With a Shovel" right . . . about . . . now. Yep, that's him tearing …
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4/26/2011
Todo el mundo conoce "Guantanamera", pero la mayorfa tiene s=lo un vago recuerdo de temas como "Marfa Bonita", "En Mi Viejo San Juan" o "Las Ma±anitas" de alguna estadfa en un hotel mexicano. Dos de la …
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4/26/2011
If rock 'n' roll weren't subversive enough, the fact that it was being made primarily by black artists was a virtual powder keg. If Top 40 radio, let alone television, was going to embrace rock artists …
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4/26/2011
Tango's two giants are light-years removed from each other. Carlos Gardel died at 45 in 1935, and Astor Piazzolla recorded right up until his death in 1992 at the age of 71. Their recordings encompass …
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4/26/2011
From mariachi to ranchera and norte±o to banda, traditional Mexican music has reached beyond borders and language barriers with its spirited melodies, cowboy songs, high-energy hybrids, and Hispanic-ti …
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