Jazz De Mexico

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Editor It’s quickly becoming a Friday favorite! Listen in and you’ll know why.  And make sure to share with your friends, your cool cred will increase for sure! My weekly recommendation: […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Editor It’s Friday so we’re serving up a sample of the best of world class Jazz from Mexico. Join San Antonio’s KRTU 91.7’s Jorge Canavati, recorded in the […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Editor I was inspired yesterday, by a conversation on the NewsTaco Facebook page. It had to do with what was and was not authentically Mexican or from […]

By NewsTaco Freanch-Chilean recording artist Ana Tijoux has joined forces with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), National Immigrant Youth Alliance and Puente Movement – sharing her gifts, spreading the […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Editor It’s Friday! So it doesn’t all have to be about news and issues and such. This is something I’ve been wanting to bring to NewsTaco readers for […]

From the textmex obsessed imagination of Memo Nericcio Thanks to the ever-brilliant Josh Kun for the link to this bracing melange of music, culture, and more… This post first appeared in the textmex galleryblog. […]

By Oscar Barajas It was the awful year of 1989, and I was getting ready to transition to junior high school. It all weighed heavily on my mind, because the […]

From the textmex obsessed imagination of William A. Nericcio Thanks to Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog reader Alberto David Mercado for forwarding me this curious performance by Mariachi El Bronx on the David Letterman Show: This […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Several weeks ago NewsTaco wrote about a campaign to get a portrait of Celia Cruz hung in The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The call […]

By Eres Nerd, NewsTaco I grinned. With a few musical notes a dystopian future was created in my mind.  A back-story of fascism, suppression of expression where music is banned.  Without context, […]