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  Los Lobos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Los Lobos is an American rock band, heavily influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country music, folk, RandB, blues, and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as boleros and norteños.
Los Lobos released an independent LP in the late 1970s, and an EP in 1983.
Los Lobos returned with The Neighborhood in 1990, and the creative and wildly experimental Kiko (produced by Mitchell Froom) in 1992.
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 Los Lobos: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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David hidalgo (born october 6, 1954 in los angeles, california) is a singer/songwriter, best known for his work with the band los lobos....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/los_lobos.htm   (1444 words)

  
 Los Lobos: Livin' La Vida NAFTA by Richard Byrne - The Globalist > > Global Music
Interestingly enough, Los Lobos had their biggest hit in 1987 by reviving the legend of another Latin-influenced artist from rock and roll's initial explosion.
Los Lobos' latest album, Good Morning Aztlan, is an album that revels in the mixing and collision of various musical forms from the United States and Mexico.
Bands such as Los Lobos are thoroughly comfortable with the steady commerce of the border that NAFTA opened up almost a decade.
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 pf - Los Lobos - Rock Music Artists - Corporate Entertainment Booking
Los Lobos was formed in 1974 by David Hidalgo, Conrad Lozano, Louie Pérez and Cesar Rosas.
Los Lobos wrote of the torments of the barrio while still providing the foot stomping rhythms that had made their live shows so enjoyable.
While enjoying the recognition of having a hit record, Los Lobos might have felt a need to show its fans their roots with the release of "La Pistola Y El Corazón" in 1988.
www.delafont.com /music_acts/E/los-lobos.htm   (1380 words)

  
 Los Lobos @ CanEHdian.com
Mixing rock’n’roll, R&B and blues tunes Los Lobos were a refreshing band in a time which saw many up-and-comers playing the same tunes their hero’s spouted out, with little variance.
A feeling of lying in the sun, or slow, soulful dancing is evoked by many of the tunes, all of which are sung in Los Lobos’ native Spanish.
Del Este De Los Angeles is a welcome release to fans of folk and old-time rock and roll.
www.canehdian.com /non/artists/l/loslobos/biography.html   (308 words)

  
 CNN - Los Lobos leader's wife still missing; family asks for help - October 27, 1999
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- The wife of Cesar Rosas, lead singer of the Grammy-winning band Los Lobos, is still missing, and her family is seeking the public's help in finding her.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Mark Bailey said detectives have been in touch with the Los Angeles County district attorney's office about Sandra Rosas' half-brother,, who was arrested Sunday night on suspicion of kidnapping her.
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Gomez was arrested because one of Sandra Rosas' daughters contacted her mother on a cell phone Saturday night and got the impression she was being held against her will.
www.cnn.com /US/9910/27/los.lobos/index.html   (326 words)

  
 Los Lobos to play Craterian - February 18, 2005
It will be the first time Los Lobos fans have been treated to this side of the band, with the exception of those 2004 gigs, since its "La Pistola y El Corazon" tour 15 years ago.
Los Lobos was formed in 1974 by Hidalgo, Conrad Lozano, Louie Pérez and Cesar Rosas when they were students at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles.
Los Lobos opened a number of times over the years for the Grateful Dead, and Hidalgo sometimes would sit and talk with Garcia backstage.
www.mailtribune.com /archive/2005/0218/life/stories/11life.htm   (678 words)

  
 VH1.com : Los Lobos : Biography
Los Lobos was one of America's most distinctive and original bands of the '80s.
Los Lobos came back together in 1999, when they recorded and released their first record for Hollywood Records, This Time.
In 2004, as Los Lobos celebrated 30 years in the music business, they recorded a pair of sold-out shows in San Francisco, which became the basis for a live album and DVD, Live at the Fillmore, remarkably the veteran group's first "live" set.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/los_lobos/bio.jhtml   (666 words)

  
 CNN.com - The return of Los Lobos - June 18, 2002
Los Lobos: Louie Perez, Steve Berlin, Conrad Lozano, David Hidalgo, and Cesar Rosas.
Los Lobos' 30-year career has had its ups and downs commercially.
Fortunately, he says, Los Lobos has a firm fan base, and the band has never been concerned with much else besides making a living making music.
www.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/18/los.lobos/index.html   (874 words)

  
 LOS LOBOS
Los Lobos say making this CD was a bit like sitting around the living room with good friends, reminiscing and making music just for the pure joy of it.
Los Lobos have gone from garage band to internationally acclaimed and celebrated unique purveyors of what they dub "roots music and a whole lot more," incorporating folkloric, blues, rock, R and B and Latin threads into their melting pot tapestry.
Los Lobos and salsero legend Rubén Blades hook up on a tropical Latin tune titled "Ya Se Va," with the Panamanian Renaissance Man contributing an irrepressible liveliness as Los Lobos match him stride-for-stride in a pulsating rhythmic experience.
www.smellslikemusic.com /artist/pages/0430/lobos.html   (1063 words)

  
 Los Lobos News
Los Lobos have mapped out a busy concert trail over the next several months, with several festival appearances on tap as the band gets back into full touring mode.
Los Lobos are taking a less-is-more approach on their new tour, which features the band performing a mostly acoustic show.
Los Lobos unleashes the psychedelic dreamscape of 'Kiko' on stage
www.topix.net /who/los-lobos   (675 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Los Lobos
Compared to Los Lobos' contagiously exuberant and highly accessible revision of "La Bamba," "Buddy Ebsen" is as cantankerously idiosyncratic as the Beverly Hillbilly after whom the tune is titled.
Moreover, Los Lobos' knack for spinning tales addressing the lives of ordinary people is as keen as that of novelists Eduardo Galeano or Langston Hughes.
It's just a hunch, but if Los Lobos had been white, they'd probably be larger than life and accorded equal footing with other great heads ensconced in rock's largely vanilla-flavored Valhalla.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.09.96/loslobos-9619.html   (1157 words)

  
 Los Lobos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The tracks were cut at The Sound Factory where artists like Beck, Tom Waits, Brian Wilson, Los Lobos and The Doors have made some of their most classic albums...
In the years that followed, Los Lobos released a followup album entitled By the Light of the Moon, and an album of traditional Mexican music entitled La Pistola y el Corazón.
Los Lobos returned with The Neighborhood in 1990, and the creative and wildly experimental Kiko in 1992.
www.wikiverse.org /los-lobos   (536 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Los Lobos
The first time Los Lobos appeared in the North Bay, shortly after the release of their 1983 Slash Records seven-song debut EP And a Time to Dance, fewer than two dozen people braved a rainy winter night to congregate at Uncle Charlie's nightclub in a small Corte Madera strip mall.
These days, Los Lobos have refined their patented blues- and soul-based sound with Good Morning Aztlán, and are recording a segment with filmmaker Wim Wenders for the upcoming PBS-TV series The Blues.
Los Lobos perform Thursday, April 3, at 9pm at the Mystic Theatre, 21 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/03.27.03/lobos-0313.html   (703 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Los Lobos
Los Lobos' mission, it turned out, was to become a living repository of soulful American music as it has taken root in New Orleans, Chicago, Memphis, California and elsewhere.
Los Lobos self-released the traditional Just Another Band From East L.A. in 1978 but didn't gain national attention until the seven-song...and a time to dance appeared in '83.
After that massive success, Los Lobos (consigning Berlin to a minimal role) returned to far more substantial music, and a different sort of nostalgia, by making a consciously uncommercial (at least for the American pop audience) acoustic album in Spanish.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=los_lobos   (1103 words)

  
 Los Lobos Set List
Los Lobos is the hottest band that shouldn't be happening on the pop charts.
Los Lobos is something of a protege of another hot LA "roots" group, The Blasters.
Los Lobos hails from the predominantly Hispanic area of east LA. I hesitate to use the word barrio because that implies ghetto rather than neighborhood.
loslobos.setlist.com /1984setlists/12-07-84.html   (743 words)

  
 LA Weekly
Los Lobos’ folkloric outreach was so successful that PBS taped a 1975 special on the group.
Steve Berlin, with the Blasters at the time, met Los Lobos at the Whisky; they told him their music had a saxophone tradition and invited him to jam.
Los Lobos’ schedule is full today; they’re due in Echo Park for another photo shoot.
www.laweekly.com /ink/04/30/reverb-quinones.php   (1924 words)

  
 Los Lobos
Los LobosLos Lobos, hailed as “one of L.A.’s most creative and inspiring rock outfits” by the Los Angeles Times, will perform a Special Night of Music on Saturday February 18, 2006 at 8:00pm at the 60th Annual Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival.
Los Lobos has been in the music business for over 30 years with a series of high profile projects, including the CD The Ride featuring all-star guest spots from many of the bands favorite musicians.
Los Lobos still are (as they put it): David Hidalgo on guitar, violin, accordion, percussion and vocals; Cesar Rosas on guitar and vocals; Louie Pérez on guitar, drums and vocals; Conrad Lozano on bass and vocals and Steve Berlin on saxophone and keyboards.
www.datefest.org /Default.aspx?tabid=86   (290 words)

  
 Los Lobos
As Los Lobos dismounts Jenny's pony, drummer Perez's last rimshot sends his first drumstick of the evening flying into the ecstatic crowd.
Gradually in the late seventies, Los Lobos reconverted to an electric band as Perez took up the drums and Hidalgo discovered an unused accordion in a friend's closet.
Los Angeles, East L.A. Living in L.A., we were exposed to a lot of different things, all the different cultures which moved to L.A. Just driving there, you'd come to the Filipino section, and you'd get their food and their music on their radio stations.
www.dirtynelson.com /linen/feature/32lobos.html   (4714 words)

  
 Los Lobos: Kiko - PopMatters Music Review
Los Lobos, the little band from East Los Angeles, created an album that didn't recycle roots rock, country, R&B, or the Latin sound, but instead redefined it by stretching each of the genres' artistic potential.
Granted, in 1992, the pre-alternative era was not suitable to Los Lobos' surrealist tale of a demon-like creature.
Los Lobos refined their childish storytelling on 1995's Papa's Dream, an inventive children's album, then later expanded their more adult-oriented experimental sound on Colossal Head, This Time, and the brilliant Good Morning Aztlan.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/l/loslobos-kikos.shtml   (809 words)

  
 JamBase | LOS LOBOS :: THE RIDE
Los Lobos, that quintessential East L.A. band, celebrates their 30th year together with their new release The Ride.
Not your typical Los Lobos album, this is a mix of new material and previously released songs re-recorded with a slew of guest vocalists including Bobby Womack, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Mavis Staples, Ruben Blades, and Richard Thompson to name a few.
Los Lobos has a unique place in American music--their longevity alone makes them stand out, and the way they successfully incorporate their Mexican musical heritage with so many other pop and rock styles makes them appealing to Latinos, rockers, and hippies alike.
www.jambase.com /headsup.asp?storyID=5111   (493 words)

  
 .: Corvallis Gazette-Times :. Archives
For those who don't branch out far beyond Top 40 radio, the band "Los Lobos," is most easily identified with their rendition of "La Bamba," which graced the soundtrack of the movie of the same name, which followed the life of Mexican American singer Richie Valens.
When Los Lobos came out with their version of the song, it became the first No. 1 song in the United States with all Spanish lyrics.
Eventually, Los Lobos began incorporating a broader range of Latino music into their sound, at the same time becoming more of a rock and roll band.
www.gazettetimes.com /articles/2005/08/20/entertainment/cover/cov02.txt   (497 words)

  
 Los Lobos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The common ground with a lot of these bands, however, was a mutual respect for the roots of rock and roll and creating new hybrids from the early years of rock.
In 1995, Los Lobos recorded a children's record, Papa's Dream with Lalo Guerrero and provided the score for the movie Desperado, the sequel to the film El Mariachi.
With the release of the new CD Colossal Head on March 19, 1996 and a busy tour schedule to promote their new release, Los Lobos continues to be one of the most creative, diverse and hard working American rock bands of our time.
www.dead.net /cavenweb/furthur/loslobos.html   (1320 words)

  
 Roots-rock band Los Lobos to perform at Mass MoCA by Seth Rogovoy
Los Lobos is known for renovations of its own, in which it builds upon the traditional Mexican folk of its members' heritage and mixes it with an array of American styles, including jazz, rhythm and blues and industrial sounds and textures, in order to create a unique, post-modern, world-music fusion.
The Los Lobos concert, which will take place at 5 p.m., will be part of the weekend-long opening planned for the new institution.
Myers also said that Mass MoCA will host additional bands in Courtyard D later this spring and summer, including a series of dance parties featuring "some of the best global dance bands in the country." The exact dates and times of these events will be announced in the next few weeks, she said.
www.berkshireweb.com /rogovoy/other/loslobos.html   (554 words)

  
 Digital Interviews: Los Lobos
A Los Lobos performance mixes a healthy dose of traditional Latin music with some of the band's favorite cover tunes, by artists such as Neil Young, Bob Marley, The Allman Brothers Band, The Grateful Dead and Jimi Hendrix.
All three contribute to the signature Los Lobos sound as songwriters, guitarists and vocalists.
Anyway, we were talking about doing the next Los Lobos record, and I thought it’d be great to get together with him and collaborate.
digitalinterviews.com /digitalinterviews/views/lobos.shtml   (1785 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Kiko: Music: Los Lobos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I have nearly every legitimate Los Lobos recording and have to rate this particular one as quite possibly their best; at least in their top three.
Overall this is one of the classic Los Lobos recordings where if you are unfamiliar(where you been ?) with much of their music it might be a good place to start.
Los Lobos has avoided this descent into stupidity and self idolatry, and is one of the few bands whose entire output is worthy of owning, but...
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002LRZ?v=glance   (1335 words)

  
 Gale - Free Resources - Hispanic Heritage - Biographies - Los Lobos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
During their twenty-five years together, Los Lobos has emerged as one of the most respected and original bands around.
At one show, Los Lobos opened for rockabilly group the Blasters and made friends with the band.
The Blasters' saxophone player, Steve Berlin, was especially impressed by Los Lobos and eventually signed on as their sax player.
www.gale.com /free_resources/chh/bio/loslobos.htm   (1536 words)

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