Sound Check

Children’s Programming for Adults

By Grace Bastidas | 03/05/2010 - 10:21 | 3 Comments

Chile’s 31 Minutos is the kind of children’s television show I would’ve loved as a kid—and as an adult, too. Unlike Sesame Street, its content was built on double entendres and sarcastic humor. On TV from 2003 to 2008, it educated kids while addressing social problems.

It was such a phenomenon throughout Latin America, that some of...

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Sound Check: Irish Mariachi Rana Santacruz Strikes Again

By Grace Bastidas | 03/03/2010 - 17:00 | 31 Comments

Based in the New York borough of Brooklyn, Rana Santacruz has been the dubbed the “Irish Mariachi” for his style of music, a blend of Celtic folk and Mexican swing. His solo debut, Chicavasco (out March 9), is made up of tall tales set to a laundry list of instruments (accordion, violin, cello, sax, jaw harp, guitarrón, vihuela, trumpet, tuba) that...

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Video: Shakira and Rafael Nadal Kiss and Tell

By Grace Bastidas | 03/01/2010 - 14:14 | 57 Comments

You’ve already heard the rumors about Shakira and Rafa’s supposed romance. And now we finally have some evidence of the superstar pair getting down and dirty—albeit for her new video. The colombiana’s video for the song “Gypsy” from her She Wolf album features the singer shaking her stuff like only she can for the sweaty,...

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Mexico’s Sweet Electra Ready Third Album

By Grace Bastidas | 02/25/2010 - 15:00 | 1 Comment

The duo behind Sweet Electra is in a New York state of mind lately. Vocalist Nardiz Cooke and producer Giovanni Escalera recently left Guadalajara for the Big Apple with the hopes of bringing their electronica-tinged pop to a wider audience. Their upcoming album When We Abandoned Earth (out April 6), sung in...

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Pull her Finger: Julieta Venegas’s New Video is a Gas

By Grace Bastidas | 02/24/2010 - 17:28 | 30 Comments

Julieta Venegas puts a new spin on that fluttery feeling we experience when we start to fall for someone in the video for “Bien o Mal,” her first single from the upcoming album Otra Cosa (out March 16).

You’ve heard the old saying, “butterflies in the stomach,” right? What about farting butterflies? Well, that’s what happens in the clip,...

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New Music Alert: Actress Leonor Watling Drops Fourth Album

By Grace Bastidas | 02/23/2010 - 15:45 | 6 Comments

Leonor Watling first registered with U.S. audiences as Alicia, a beautiful ballet student lying in a coma in Pedro Almodovar’s 2002 film Talk to Her. And while the Spanish actress has done other movies, it seems she’s more of a singer these days. When I heard that she dueted with Uruguayan artist Jorge Drexler in...

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Jennifer Lopez is All Over the Small Screen

By Grace Bastidas | 02/19/2010 - 14:45 | 0 Comments

Live from New York it’s . . . Jennifer Lopez! Yes, that’s right, on Feb. 27 Mrs. Marc Anthony will be the host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live. The Bronx-born Boricua first appeared on SNL in 2001, back when Will Ferrel, Tracy Morgan and Chris Kattan were still in the cast and she...

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Christina Aguilera on the Set of "Burlesque"

By Grace Bastidas | 02/18/2010 - 15:51 | 0 Comments

It’s been a long time since Christina Aguilera left Pittsburgh for the glitz and the glam of Los Angeles. Yet, she’s probably conjuring up her days in the Steel City to play Ali, a small-town girl who arrives in Hollywood to pursue her dreams, in the musical film Burlesque, currently filming in L.A.

The big-voiced songstress, who recently...

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