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Everyone knows that we're livin' la vida loca here at Y! Music, but how many knew that we're also big fans of narcocorrido--musical stories about narcotics trafficking?

Probably not a lot of you! But this peculiarly Mexican-American song form is the folk music of today, and we're on board! So much so that we're using exclamation points with a DiMartinoesque casualness!

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Parents may be concerned that narcocorrido glorifies the drug overlords, but that's not strictly true. Singer Gabriel Berrelleza of this week's guest artists, Los Cuates de Sinaloa, explains: "A corrido is a musical story taken from real life. It can be about a tragic accident or praising a person... a lot of people think narcocorridos are only ones who can challenge the government. To them, it's like an action picture. The one who wins in the end is the good guy. And for those people, the government is the bad guy."

It seemed that the days of the supergroup--the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, or the Blind Faith--were well behind us, readers, but this week Framed welcomes a group that may be the absolute apex of supergroupdom: SuperHeavy.

This most amazing of groups, which includes Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, Dave Stewart, Damian Marley, and A.R. Rahman, first got together, it seems, back in 2009. Their goal was to "write songs which have meaning."

Since that wasn't possible--hey, look who's in it!--they went another route and, now, excitingly, their debut album is due to drop, as they say, in September. We're sure it'll be boffo, but let's look at the members of SuperHeavy to better understand their greatness!

Framed is all about alternative rock--everyone knows that!--so it's with some pleasure that we welcome the great Smashing Pumpkins to our blog this week. The controversial Pumpkins, who've placed five albums in the U.S. Top 10, played their farewell concert in 2000... and then reunited in 2006 to great acclaim and even more success.

This week's video, "Owata," is from their self-released 2009 album, Teargarden By Kaleidyscope. In a word, it's a dull and meandering wrestling video, wrestling being one of Billy Corgan's inexplicable loves. The Pumpkins themselves don't appear in the video--really, a 12-minute short--but it does feature real female wrestlers like Cheerleader Melissa and Shelly Martinez.