With Amargo Adios, Inspector mixes up border sounds and border iconography in this paean to unrequited love.

Hailing from Monterrey, Inspector has got to be one of the most inspired ska bands south of the Rio Grande! This tune features guest artists Rubén Albarrán (a.k.a. “Rita Cantalagua”) of Café Tacuba and Roco of Maldita Vecindad.

The worm might be blind but these guys can certainly see their way around a good hook. "Giroscopio" is a classic style video reminiscent of early MTV that fits well with this “power pop” tune. Yabla loves this band, you will too!

La Gusana Ciega is one of our favorite bands! Excellent writing plus deep hooks equals beautiful pop. This live recording of "Tornasol", a big hit for the band, may just leave you hungry for more.

Chido, is Mexican for “cool” (and we don’t mean leaning towards cold). As is typical, a precise definition can vary with context. Liquits, representative of Mexico City’s young and playful, enjoy riffing and aren’t afraid to mix languages (and cultural references) with abandon.

So what is it with this Latin American love of ska, a Jamaican genre from the early 60’s that’s had a second coming amongst British and American bands since the early 80’s? Lucky for us, ska is almost always sung very clearly, in short, catchy, easy to understand phrases. Liquits hails from Mexico City, but this award winning group has been hopping continents to record and play for a growing audience since 1993. The animation is ¡padrisimo!

If there was an entry for “trippy” in the English-Spanish dictionary we think there would be a photo of Liquits sitting there next to it. Lyrically, this neat little tune is not as simple as it at first sounds, and is loaded with double meanings and word plays—we’ve tried to point out a few! Have fun (you know you like to sing)—vocab quiz on naked stork firefly poppies first thing Monday.

Feeling like you aren’t yourself lately? Perhaps even get the idea you are no longer of this world? Molotov knows all about this feeling and have hired a team of scientists to create a special dance to go along with it!

In English “forever” is a really long time, it’s also, you’ll notice, written as a single word. In Spanish “for ever” is expressed as “for always,” also a long time, and is written as two distinct words, para siempre. Zurdok has been infecting Mexico, and the world, with its catchy tunes since 1994.

New reflections on happiness, love and addictions stand out in this part through the voices of Daniel Giménez Cacho and Diego Luna as well as in the melody of La Original Banda El Limón.

This part of the documentary explores the gap between how we tend to live our lives and how we perhaps should. Against this backdrop of reflection, indigenous hip-hop group Slajem K'op performs one of their pieces in Tzotzil.

After listening to verses from the book La emoción de las cosas by Mexican writer and journalist Ángeles Mastretta, Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade, and the iconic member of the group Café Tacvba, Meme del Real, delight us with the sweet song Cuando llegaré.

Continuing with the theme of pain in life, it's the turn of the legendary Mexican wrestler Blue Demon to share his own personal experience.

In this part of the documentary, the idea of suffering and pain as necessary elements to obtain a deserved reward is discussed.

With the music of Los Macuanos, this video introduces us to the theme of resistance and its different manifestations in Mexican society.