Week 179: Calle 13 & Puff P Diddy Dirty Money whatever…

I guess Sean Combs is changing his name again… who cares right? I only use it as an excuse to tell you about this Calle 13 song called Pi-Di-Di-Di.

Calle 13 are huge reggeaton superstars and in my view well deserved. I’ve posted about them before when they released “Querido FBI”, a song [...]

Week 117: Outtakes, Things I am Not Writing About But Still Might

Billy Bragg. Saw him live the Saturday before election. I generally steer away from overtly political music, but he was just incredible, by himself, with a little help from a small crew, he had my undivided attention for two and half hours. Funny, serious, inspiring. The kind of person I wish i would run [...]

Week 50: My Summer Vacation 2, Violence

Right before we arrived in Puerto Rico for our vacation, a cop had shot and killed an unarmed man who was lying defenseless on the ground. He did it in plain daylight while surrounded by a number of people. One person there had a camera phone and videotaped the event. This person then posted [...]

Week 22: Calle 13

A Culebra y Vieques.

This song was recorded and released free on the internet by Calle 13 three or four days after the death of Filiberto Ojeda Rios, leader of Los Macheteros. Although Ojeda Rios led a revolutionary life since his youth in the 50s, he is best known as the mastermind behind the [...]