Los Lobos weren’t an obvious choice to turn a cover of Ritchie Valens’ '50s-era hit “La Bamba” into one of the songs of the summer in 1987. They’d been around since the ’70s, releasing critically ...

What music defines Los Angeles? While the answer is as wide and multi-faceted as the city itself, many Angelenos find their answer in East Los Angeles. And when it comes to the quintessential band of ...

On June 30, 1987, Slash/Warner Bros. released the soundtrack to the film La Bamba, a biopic about Ritchie Valens, a Chicano rock pioneer who died in the same 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. "La Bamba" was ...

When Los Lobos loaded into City Winery in Chicago back in February, it was equal parts rock show and commemoration. The East L.A. band was in town to perform and be interviewed for a special live ...

Legendary Los Angeles rock band Los Lobos is suing over allegedly unpaid royalties tied to soundtrack recordings for the 1987 Richie Valens biopic La Bamba and the 1995 Richard Rodriguez-directed film ...

"They really created a masterpiece with that tune," says Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Bonnie Raitt The fingerprints of Mexican American artists are all over the history of popular music in the United ...

Sometime in the ’80s, singer Exene Cervenka of X says she pitched the idea of a tour with X, the Blasters, and Los Lobos, all of them friends and fellow travelers in the Los Angeles music scene of the ...