Just because you weren’t there when El Chicano came onto the music scene, doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate their awesome music. The band came from Los Angeles and combined all types of music — salsa, blues, jazz, R&B and rock — in both English and Spanish and they rock. Check them out and let us know what you think, or alternately, if you were there, share your memories of when you first heard their music! Happy Friday!
After doing a little research, I discovered that only two Latino musicians have been inducted in Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. If you guessed 1998 inductee Carlos Santana, and 2001 inductee Richie Valens, you know your Rock n' Roll history well. So along with the creators of…
There's a lot of great stuff on our roundup this week, so I'll make my intro brief. There was a cool story about Latino hipsters, a roundup of our Halloween coverage, some alarming stories related to immigration and civil rights (for all of us), a Latina feminism treatise, La Lloronathon launches…
By Queso Quesem, Pocho Ñews Service It’s 1965 and big hair and girl groups are all the rage. In East L.A., sisters Rosella, Ersi and Mary Arvizu, who had been singing and playing music together all their lives, thought they had the right stuff to be the next Supremes — even before…
Just because you weren’t there when El Chicano came onto the music scene, doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate their awesome music. The band came from Los Angeles and combined all types of music — salsa, blues, jazz, R&B and rock — in both English and Spanish and they rock. Check them out and let us know what you think, or alternately, if you were there, share your memories of when you first heard their music! Happy Friday!
