Salsa had Hector Lavoe and Willie Colon. Hip-Hop has Nas, Common, and countless others. Reggaeton has Tego Calderon and Voltio. And Latin hip-hop (or hip-hop en Español) has Malverde. What do they all have in common? They make music that is commercially acceptable commercially and brings awareness to the people it represents. The Los Angeles...
Reality TV is getting a major kick in the ass and it’s about time. Yasmín Deliz and Crash are the two lovely ladies doing the ass whooping on mun2’s “The Chicas Project.” The funky, upbeat show has the girls doing all sorts of crazy things, like sky diving, working at a zoo, bungee jumping, and performing on stage with Los Razos.
Las chicas...
28 years ago, two women, Chicanas, were about to become an important footnote in music history. Teresa Covarruvias (from the band The Brats) and Alice Armendáriz (of The Bags) rented out the second floor of Self Help Graphics and turned it into Vex, East L.A. punk central. Vex was like a second home to many punk kids that were rejected by their...
OK people, for the record, Rosario Dawson was NOT out with her boyfriend doing some last minute holiday shopping at H.D. Buttercup in Los Angeles. The much older man with silver locks is actually Rosario’s father trying to get some quick quality time with his famous little girl! After all, why wouldn’t he after Rosario admitted to the press...
Sure Jessica Alba may be out in old, ripped jeans without makeup, but give the first time mom a break! Jessica, her husband Cash Warren, and their daughter Honor Marie, along with some family and friends enjoyed a walk at the Fairfax Flea Market in Los Angeles.
For those who may doubt Jessica’s marriage, the couple had a formal wedding...
Hola chicas y chicos! I am so happy to be a member of the nocheLatina.com family and the new fashionista on the block. I’ll be your eyes and ears for all of the latest looks and hot new designers set to light up the runways and your closet for 2009. Not only will I highlight trends, but I will also detail the best ways to be a stylista on a budget...
Locos Por Juana (Latin Urban Orquestra) is starting their new year right with their recent Grammy nomination for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album for the hit album La Verdad. Plus, just days before the awards, Locos Por Juana was asked to perform in Los Angeles on February 5th at the newly reopened Conga Room. The band has also...
So you want to be a bartender? Join the club. With every aspiring Broadway star and Baruch grad student vying for that much coveted spot behind the bar, you better have what it takes to make it. And if you think all it takes is a pretty face, think again. I sat down with Joseph Bruno, Executive Director of the American Bartender School, for a...
The best of salsa are finally uniting to make beautiful music together.
Salsa stars Gilberto Santa Rosa and Victor Manuelle announced that they will be traveling together and performing. The tour, titled “La Historia Continua,” is produced by Sony Music Latin’s Day 1 Entertainment.
“La Historia Continua” officially begins on February 12th...
Starting things off with a beautiful tropical, Latin guitar lick, what follows next on Guajiro’s Material Subversivo is an explosive collection of rebellious punk rock that totally kicks mucho ass! From Miami, and made up of two Cubans, a Puerto Rican, and a white guy, the album takes inspiration from the dirty, three chord, two minute jams that...
