This New Year's Eve, don't forget to dance. Alt.Latino can help. iStockphoto hide caption

Gaby Moreno and Gina Chavez perform live at KUT's Studio 1A. Dave Pedley hide caption

Miguel. Daniel Sannwald/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

USC professor Josh Kun, who joins Alt.Latino for this week's show, is a co-founder of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation, which in 2013 assembled a collection of Latino-Jewish music titled It's A Scream How Levine Does The Rhumba. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

DJ Ramiro Jota with Argentine MC Sara Hebe. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Soledad O'Brien. Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images hide caption

Orfeu Negro (1959) was a groundbreaking film for Latin cinema. Courtesy of Criterion Collection hide caption

Get set for a super-scary Alt.Latino music mix. Courtesy of Chicano Batman hide caption

Vayijel is a Mexican rock band that sings in Tzotzil. Alfio Tommasini/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Ibeyi. Sophie Wright/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Rita Moreno. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Natalia Lafourcade's album Hasta La Raíz will be released in the U.S. Friday. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Lucky Diaz and Alisha Gaddis of Lucky Diaz & The Family Jam Band. Corey Nichols/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

The Grammy-winning band La Santa Cecilia is a perfect match for Alt.Latino. Humberto Howard /Courtesy of the artist hide caption

German DJ Shantel collaborates with Greek musician Areti Ketime in "EastWest." Courtesy of the artists hide caption

As "The Lady In The Tutti-Frutti Hat" from The Gang's All Here, Carmen Miranda embodied the sexual, social and political complexities of fruit in Latin America. Twentieth Century Fox/Wikimedia hide caption

Arturo O'Farrill conducts during recording sessions in Havana last winter. David Garten/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Rita Hayworth would've loved this mixtape. Monty Fresco/Getty Images hide caption

Mexican singer Ceci Bastida. Courtesy of the artist hide caption