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.

Ana and Samuel meet at the park and exchange some treats to eat before choosing a movie to watch together at the theater.

Samuel shows the gifts that he bought for his friend's newborn baby and her older sister to his friend, Ana, at the park.

Ana and Samuel meet for the first time in the park and find a mysterious backpack with no name on it. Will checking its contents help them find out the identity of its owner?

Big or small? A guy and a girl meet on a park bench and compare the size of various possessions, only to find out that they have many similarities.

A young woman who can't find her phone sits on a park bench to rifle through her purse. As she explores its contents, a nice guy sitting next to her tries to help her find the device.

Karen continues her look at some of the basic (and not so basic) materials found in the classroom.

Known as "El Rey de la Música Ranchera" (The King of Ranchera Music), prolific Mexican performer Vicente Ferndandez sings "Estos Celos" ("This Jealousy"), the lead single from his seventy-ninth studio album: "Para Siempre" (Forever).

Karen teaches us some useful Spanish terms for school supplies.

Karen gives us some preliminary tips on how to tell time in Spanish.