Pete Rodriguez – I Like It Like That The earliest boogaloos were sung in Spanish but the transition towards English lyrics became key to the style catching on outside of the pan-Latino community. Pete Rodriguez and his band had previously recorded an album entitled Latin Boogaloo in 1966 but none of its songs caught on. For their next project, released in the spring of 1967, trumpeter Tony Pabon began singing the lead vocal in English, resulting in the group recording one of boogaloo’s defining hits: I Like It Like That. Rodriguez made so much money for Alegre Records that his previous label, Remo, shamelessly reissued his earlier albums and billed them as boogaloo LPs, even renaming one of them as The King of Boogaloo even though the album contained no songs in the actual style. Rodriguez went on to record a slew of other Latin soul albums through the rest of the 60s but then disappeared for decades, avoiding interviews until We Like It Like That’s director, Mathew … [Read more...] about We like it like that: the songs that defined New York City’s boogaloo craze
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Pink ladies! Best pals Taylor Swift and Lena Dunham brighten up freezing New York City while holding hands on a stroll
In October Lena told Entertainment Tonight: 'Long before she was my friend, she was my friend in my head... I was listening to her while I wrote my first film, while I wrote the first season of Girls, while I wrote the second season of Girls - so she's definitely a soundtrack to many of my feelings.' … [Read more...] about Pink ladies! Best pals Taylor Swift and Lena Dunham brighten up freezing New York City while holding hands on a stroll
Fania All-Stars, New York City 1971: salsa swaggers into the mainstream
Fania Records began modestly in 1964, with Pacheco and Masucci distributing vinyl to shops from the back of their car. As well as being a fine bandleader in his own right, Pacheco had a killer ear for talent, assembling a roster of New York and Puerto Rican artists who embodied his vision of a pan-Latin pop. The label was also canny at marketing, playing up the street roots of its stars (check the sleeve to Colón/Lavoe compilation Crime Pays, a Latino spin on blaxploitation chic that anticipates gangsta rap two decades early) and packaging them together for label showcases. And while the idea of filming this 1971 shindig came from Gast and Harlow, it was Pacheco and Masucci who envisioned it as a “Latin Woodstock” and saw dollar signs. … [Read more...] about Fania All-Stars, New York City 1971: salsa swaggers into the mainstream
Richard Gere seen checking on the Bedford Post Inn in New York which he co-owns after Hurricane Isaias caused the property to lose power on Tuesday
The Westchester, New York property comprises eight guest rooms as part of the inn, along with two 'distinct' restaurants and a yoga studio called The Yoga Loft that is home to daily classes, workshops and events. … [Read more...] about Richard Gere seen checking on the Bedford Post Inn in New York which he co-owns after Hurricane Isaias caused the property to lose power on Tuesday
The New Guinea cannibals accused of killing and eating Michael Rockefeller: Photographer visits Indonesian people who gave up eating humans thirty years ago and converted to Christianity after disappearance of American heir in 1961
He claims that once Rockefeller made it to shore, the men of the Asmats - a notoriously violent New Guinea tribe - tortured, beheaded and ate Rockefeller in a ritualistic cannibal killing. … [Read more...] about The New Guinea cannibals accused of killing and eating Michael Rockefeller: Photographer visits Indonesian people who gave up eating humans thirty years ago and converted to Christianity after disappearance of American heir in 1961
