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Mexican band mourns MJ with tribute

A Sonoran Norteño group in Mexico, Los Picadientes del Caborca, have come up with a purely Mexican version of MJ’s classic, “Billy Jean.”

Cafe Tacuba Uncut

For the hardcore Cafe Tacuba fans out there, here is the uncut material from the interview that I did with two of the band members.

How Cafe Tacuba sprained my ankle

This is probably the least exciting location from which I have filed a dispatch. My sofa, in my third-floor apartment, my snowball-like foot propped up on a couple of cushions as I look out onto the cloudy Mexico City panorama this morning.
What happened? Well, it’s all Cafe Tacuba’s fault really.
I interviewed two of the [...]

First Stop in the New World: dollar-a-dance hostess

This week MexicoReporter.com will be publishing a series of extracts from David Lida’s book “First Stop in the New World.”

Camilo Lara, a.k.a MIS, gets ready to play Coachella

Camilo Lara is the sole member of the Mexican Institute of Sound, and I had the pleasure of interviewing him in his Mexico City home

Video: Las Mariachis celebrate International Women’s Day for BBCMundo.com

Tomorrow is international women’s day, so we went down to Plaza de Garibaldi to ask Mariachi Sonidos de America Feminil to sing a song for BBCMundo’s viewers across Latin America.

Please click here to watch the film.

In male world of Mariachi, women sing their own tune

Dusk falls on a regular Thursday night in Mexico City’s Plaza de Garibaldi and the capital’s multitude of mariachi prepare for another night’s work.

Amidst the overwhelmingly male musicians strutting around the neglected Plaza in their skin-tight charro outfits is Mariachi Sonidos de America Feminil – a female group of musicians daring to brave the macho tradition of the mariachi.

Video: Female Mariachi’s Croon in Mexico’s Plaza de Garibaldi

Mariachi Sonidos de America Feminil are defying Mexican tradition. A female band of Mariachis, the group of women musicians are confronting the macho culture of the Mariachi to give it a feminine touch. The group plays every night of the weekend in Mexico’s Plaza de Garibaldi.

Punks Collect Downtown at El Chopo

El Chopo is a weekly fleamarket that has been going for 27 years in Mexico City. Punters can pick up anything from original Doc Marten boots to a copy of ‘London Calling’ by the Clash in the stalls that line the market streets.