Los Lobos es una de las principales bandas de rock chicano y, para 'La Bamba", reinterpretaron al pionero del género: Ritchie ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cesar Rosas had just finished strumming his guitar and singing the first lines of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which the band would perform the next night to open a baseball game at Dodger Stadium, ...