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Looks like this month’s Descubre and Download artist Ximena Sariňana has gotten too cool for school since her music hit it big. Mexican rock band and current Artist of the Week Plastilina Mosh, who happen to be Ximena’s old friends, had a lot to say about how the singer has changed since her music started becoming “la moda.”

MTV News caught up with rockers at Central Park’s Summerstage, and they were very vocal about Ximena’s sudden success. They mentioned how convenient it was for their new album due out August 5th. The album, entitled “All You Need is Mosh” features a song with Ximena called “Pervert Pop Song." They were so eager to let you sample the collabo, that they offered up the download of "Pervert Pop Song" exclusively to Tr3s for this whole week. Visit Plastilina Mosh's Artist of the Week page from today through next Monday and listen away, completamente gratis!

For those of you that are stuck on the West Coast and missed out on the indie extravaganza known as LAMC, you can peep a whirlwind recap right here:

Tags "All You Need Is Mosh", Central Park Summerstage, Plastilina Mosh, Ximena Sariñana

Haven't listened to Mexican newcomer Ximena Sariñana yet? What are you waiting for? She isn't on Descubre and Download for nothing!

We can't stop playing Ximena's debut album Mediocre on repeat since getting our manos on it (perk of working in the music industry). To whom does la cantante attribute her wide range of musical influences? Ximena gives props to her musician parents and Pearl Jam; these are just a few sources of inspiration that shape her unique sound:

Pues, bueno, yo decidí que quería hacer música ya de lleno cuando escuché a Radiohead, y Pearl Jam, y Fiona Apple y de ahí fue que decidí estudiar música. Entonces a partir de ahí, empecé a hacer todo tipo de cosas, escribir canciones para soundtracks, empecé a tocar con tríos, cuartetos, y big bandas, y estándares de jazz, hasta que finalmente se desembocó todo en este proyecto que es mi primer disco de solista.

Mix that all up and what do you get? Some call her the Mexican Norah Jones. Que piensas? [MTV Tr3s Radio Noticias]

Tags Fiona Apple, Mediocre, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Ximena Sariñana

And so should you! Current Descubre & Download artist Ximena Sariñana, whose unique style of jazzy pop has been garnering her mucha atención in the music scene, was in Nueva York recently and MTV Tr3s got to pick her brain about su música and what it means to be Latina. Check out what the 22-year-old Mexicana actriz/songstress had to say about it here:

Her time spent with MTV Tr3s left such a lasting impression on her that she blogged about it on her myspace page:

Anduve en NY la semana pasada haciendo un programa llamado Descubre y Download para MTVTres..que para los que no vivan en USA es el canal de MTV para la comunidad latina de USA..y me puso a reflexionar muchisimo sobre que es para mi ser latina,,,y despues de mucha discusion una amiga y yo determinamos que ser latino no se puede encasillar una cosa y que ser latino es todo...es cultura, musica, telenovelas, cariño, familia, comida, ritmo....mil cosas....y que a su vez es nada....somos ya ciudadanos del mundo...no se........

We couldn't have said it better ourselves! The food and the telenovelas - definately the staples of our cultura. Qué piensas? Why do you love being Latino?

Tags Descubre & Download, Luz clarita, MTV Tr3s, Myspace, Ximena Sariñana