The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges once suggested that as Americans in the broader sense, the people of the Western Hemisphere have a cultural right to pretty much everything: Europe and Africa, ...
Spanish rock has always been central to Latino communities. The genre has signified resistance against societal norms. Rock en español in Southern California generated a vibrant “Rock Angelino” scene ...
El rock en español es tan mexicano como la banda sinaloense, la norteña, el son jarocho o el mariachi, de acuerdo con Saúl Hernández, vocalista del legendario grupo Caifanes. Hernández indica que para ...
For rock en espanol enthusiasts, Friday’s WHATCHA Tour stop at the Aragon Ballroom may be the show of the season: It features top-of-the-line artists such as A.N.I.M.A.L., Aterciopelados, Enanitos ...
The mere mention of rock en español invokes sonic memories for Latines of different generations. Bands like Argentina’s Soda Stereo, Mexico’s Caifanes and Chile’s Los Prisioneros have become part of ...
A concert and conversation with Los Straitjackets, the Nashville-based indie-rock band that's made a name performing surf-rock classics from behind Mexican wrestling masks. The group's latest album, ...
Alonso Camacho remembers how it started. Back in 1997, the Sacramento, Calif., guitarist, then a teenager, and his brother Jair launched a cover band to play songs by their favorite rock groups. Six ...
The frontman for the funky-cool Venezuelan band Los Amigos Invisibles prances into the spotlight at the 500-capacity Visulite Theatre in Charlotte, N.C., and plays the crowd as if performing to 20,000 ...
A two-day Rock En Español festival is bringing El Tri, Caifanes, Café Tacvba, Molotov, Maldita Vecindad, Kinky, Panteon Rococo, Ozomatli, Los Amigos Invisibles and 10 other artists to Quartzsite, ...
It only took a promotional poster for the new Netflix rock en español documentary Break It All to make rockeros worldwide mad as hell. “Why isn’t [enter your favorite band] mentioned?” some asked.
When Jorge Leal entered academia, he had no intention of studying the music that meant so much to him. “That’s the last thing I wanted to do,” the Pacoima resident says on a recent video call. “I was ...
Latin ska emanates from unit 318, where a few cars, pickup trucks and a small audience drinking Coronas have converged in the light of a full moon to listen to an impromptu rehearsal of LETAL. “This ...