In recording its “The Neighborhood” album, Los Lobos wrestled with questions of artistic purity and commercial compromise. This story was originally published on Sept. 2, 1990. “THERE’S NO SUCCESS ...

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 ...

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 ...

After years of touring together as separate acts, Grammy Award winners Martha Gonzalez of Quetzal and David Hidalgo of Los Lobos released Memory and Return in September. The eight-track album blends ...

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 ...

For the first and last time, venerated L.A. rock bands X and Los Lobos will join forces for a historic co-headlining tour that gets underway in Denver on July 19 th. The extensive ’99 Years of Rock n’ ...

The lunch order at Lucy’s El Adobe on Melrose was as follows: Cesar Rosas: steak picado with corn tortillas. David Hidalgo: chile relleno, with a beef taco dorado a la carte. Louie Pérez: vegetarian ...

Since self-releasing their 1978 debut, Just Another Band From East LA, Los Lobos have operated outside the mainstream, making consistently brilliant LPs on limited resources. Drummer Louie Pérez, ...

Some years before they made such multicultural, mixed-language, cutting-edge classics as “Kiko” and “Colossal Head,” Los Lobos recorded “Just Another Band From East L.A.” The 1978 album had the band – ...

Chicano hippies playing mariachi music. That was my first impression of Los Lobos when I first saw the band back in the mid-1970s, before it had any albums out. By that time, Los Lobos had already ...