Los Ángeles — Sin haber incursionado nunca en el mercado comercial ni haber sucumbido a las modas, Los Cenzontles han dado cuenta de un poder de supervivencia que les ha permitido hasta el momento ...

Corridos are narrative ballads in Spanish, a much-loved form in popular song among Mexicans and the Spanish-speaking populations of the Southwestern US. (Note to gringos: If Johnny Cash had been ...

The Mexican rock band Los Jaguares doesn”t often use opening acts. The Jaguares” fan base is notoriously hard on whatever luckless band takes the stage as a warm-up act to their heroes. On the surface ...

Every Monday we bring you a brand new song or music video to keep you going on that most difficult day of the week. We are usually playful, but we want to start off this week on a more serious note.

In commemoration of Pasados del Presidio, Los Cenzontles (The Mockingbirds) will perform acoustic traditional music from a variety of Mexican regions including the son Jarocho of Veracruz, pirekuas of ...

If you love new music, but you don't have the time to keep up with what's hip and new, we've got the perfect segment for you: Tuesday Reviewsday. Every week our music experts bring in their top picks, ...

Every 4th grader in California’s public schools learns about Juan Bautista de Anza’s epic 1775-76 trek across the northern frontier of the Spanish empire, a five-month journey that culminated with the ...

Los Cenzontles is an NPRish, alt-latin band that wrote a corrido about the racist fucked-up fascist controversial immigration legislation in Arizona. It's called “Estado de Verguenza” (“State of Shame ...

For more than 20 years, Eugene Rodriguez, a member of the acclaimed California folkloric ensemble Los Cenzontles (The Mockingbirds), has avoided injecting his personal politics into the group's ...

Eugene Rodriguez begins his new memoir “Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging” with a gut punch of a story. The founder and guiding spirit of the San ...