Community historian Ruben Molina's discovery of 1950s rhythm & blues records with handwritten tags inspired "The Dreamy Side," a book documenting overlooked Chicano youth culture.
A powerful true story about a teenage rock star whose meteoric rise and tragic end helped shape music history.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eugene Sesma, who sang with Chicano rock group the Blendells, takes a photo of Robert "Rabbit" Jaramillo of the band Cannibal and ...
Like many ideas, it started over a round of drinks. Musicians Shorty Delgado, James Jones and Joshua Josué were discussing where they stood in the world of music. Their sounds weren’t traditionally ...
They are seen as the progenitors of Chicano rock 'n' roll, the first band that had the boldness, and some might even say the naiveté, to fuse punk rock with Mexican folk tunes. It was a group called ...
Chicano soul was alive and pumping in Texas, but rock had progressed well into the FM radio era with glam rock shaking a feather boa, while Doug Sahm was hauling Flaco Jimenez to his classic Atlantic ...
Before the summer of 1964, major labels had little interest in Mexican-American bands. Then came The Premiers. Fifty Years Of 'Farmer John': A Hit That Opened The Door For Chicano Rock In the summer ...
Lea este artículo en español: Chicano de Mayo celebra la herencia latina con Joshua Josué y Edna Vazquez Joshua Josué, a Chicano rock musician who was born in Los Angeles and has spent much of his ...
Thee Midniters were an American group, among the first Chicano rock bands to have a major hit in the United States. Also they were and one of the best known acts to come out of East Los Angeles in the ...
Eugene Sesma, who sang with Chicano rock group the Blendells, takes a photo of Robert "Rabbit" Jaramillo of the band Cannibal and the Headhunters at Casa 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights in 2015. (Genaro ...
In 1965, Robert “Rabbit” Jaramillo and his friends were on the cusp of becoming rock ‘n’ roll royalty. Their Eastside quartet, Cannibal and the Headhunters, had a spring smash with “Land of 1,000 ...