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Video: Fonseca and Willie Colón Team Up

By Grace Bastidas | 01/28/2010 - 11:38 | 0 Comments

Salsa great Willie Colón has collaborated with everyone from Celia Cruz to David Byrne in his storied career. And the 59-year-old Nuyorican musician is still churning out the hits. He recently teamed up with Bogotá native Fonseca to record the song “Estar Lejos” for the Colombian’s Gratitud Edición...

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Ay Caracas! Venezuelan band Los Crema Paraiso Throws a Party

By Grace Bastidas | 01/27/2010 - 12:15 | 1 Comment

Si*Sé’s guitarist Neil Ochoa, Los Amigos Invisibles’ percussionist José Luis Pardo (a.k.a. DJ Afro) and multi-band bass player Alvaro Benavides weren’t messing around when they formed powerful trio Los Crema Paraiso almost a year ago. The New York–based Venezuelans wanted to fuse their...

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Miguel Bose has Juanes Present his New Single

By Grace Bastidas | 01/26/2010 - 12:45 | 0 Comments

Despite being titled Cardio, Miguel Bose’s upcoming pop album (out March 9) is not necessarily geared towards workout fanatics. The word means heart in Greek, and the CD’s new single (“Estuve a punto de…”) beats with all the elements that have made the Spanish singer so successful in his 30-year career.

Bose recently asked his musical BFF,...

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From Mexico to Haiti with Love

By Grace Bastidas | 01/25/2010 - 12:33 | 0 Comments

Mexico City may be located over 1,500 miles away from Port-au-Prince, but that hasn’t stopped many of our favorite Mexican musicians from wanting to do something for Haiti’s earthquake victims. Aleks Syntek, Alejandro Fernández, Vicente Fernández, Julieta Venegas, Natalia Lafourcade,...

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Do Your Part for Haiti

By Grace Bastidas | 01/22/2010 - 12:22 | 2 Comments

It’s time to give a little. Celebrities around the world are coming together this weekend to help earthquake victims in Haiti. Watch and donate.

Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief telethon airs tonight at 8 p.m. (ET) across ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX and other networks. Organized by MTV and...

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Get Smart with iPod Playlists

By Chris Hermosilla | 01/22/2010 - 11:00 | 2 Comments

Everyone knows how to use an iPod, but that little box of joy and its software can do a whole lot more if you spend time tweaking that ever-expanding library of songs. Smart playlists grow and change depending on your listening habits, including what music you haven’t heard in a while and even what tunes you’ve skipped recently.

The first step:...

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Video: Daddy Yankee Gives Us “Grito Mundial”

By Grace Bastidas | 01/21/2010 - 14:48 | 8 Comments

The World Cup doesn’t kick off in South Africa till June but that doesn’t mean we can’t start celebrating now. And thanks to Daddy Yankee, we have just the song to get fans excited. The reggaetonero’s “Grito Mundial” from his latest album, Mundial, delivers a strong message: “Cero racismo, cero egoísmo, voy palante porque creo en mi mismo/ Camina...

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Enrique Bunbury Turns into a Zombie

By Grace Bastidas | 01/20/2010 - 13:45 | 7 Comments

If you think zombies are so 2009, think again. Spanish crooner Enrique Bunbury comes back as the living dead in his new video for the song “Frente a Frente” from his upcoming album Las Consecuencias (EMI; out Feb. 16).

Directed by J.A. Bayona (the same guy that helmed the Spanish horror flick El Orfanato), the clip...

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