Los Lobos performed a solid set last night at their first appearance of a four night stand at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley in Seattle. They played a cross-section of songs…current…past…and covers. The did a half-dozen Spanish language songs…”Mas Y Mas” from […]
The festival market has gotten so saturated that, once the unofficial kickoff to festival season begins with Indio, California’s Coachella, you can count on at least one festival every weekend throughout the Summer. While there are plenty of genre-specific festivals […]
More than three decades have passed since Los Lobos released their debut album, Just Another Band from East L.A. Since then they’ve repeatedly disproven the implication of that title. Los Lobos isn’t “just another” anything, but rather a band that has […]
A few decades ago, when I ran a record store in California, I must have been asked that question a few hundred times a day. They weren’t usually the first words spoken by a new customer, since ascertaining the whereabouts and accessibility […]
Photograph by Jacki Sackheim
Photo by Jacki Sackheim
An interview with Los Lobos with performance at the Grammy Museum on 9/27/2015- Photograph by Jacki Sackheim
It’s another good week for new music, so let’s hop right on. Patty Griffin Servant Of Love Having heard that this was a “breakup” album, I was expecting something pretty somber from Patty this time around. Although there are some […]
A cartoon strip by Brian McFadden that ran in The New York Times on Sept. 6 depicted a forlorn Statue of Liberty greeting a boatload of immigrants with a sign reading “Huddled Masses No Longer Welcome.” It’s timely, considering a new […]
