Los Angeles – The dance floor at “Barrio Boogie Sunday” is filled with sharply dressed women in flouncy skirts and brightly colored fitted blouses, being twirled in perfect swing rhythm by their ...
Among other reasons, zoot suits are remembered for making Edward James Olmos look good, and for being the subject of a Cherry Poppin' Daddies song. So what if that swing revival didn't really pan out?
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Old pachucos never die. They just move to Palm Springs and keep the memories alive. Bandleader Don Tosti, the man who helped spark a Mexican American musical craze with his 1948 tune “Pachuco Boogie,” ...
I can’t blame Roco, the singer for Maldita Vecindad, for lying to me. “Yeah, man… We have material for two or three albums,” he used to tell me for years. “Anytime now.” Yeah, right. The “anytime” ...
Don Tosti, the bandleader who helped spark a Mexican American musical craze half a century ago with his tune “Pachuco Boogie,” has died. He was 81. Tosti, who was diagnosed with advanced prostate ...
El frenético ska y el boogie pachuco de estilo antiguo se conjuntan en la más reciente producción de Los Skarnales. El nuevo CD de la banda, Pachuco Boogie Sound System, pone la piel de gallina con ...
Let’s get the bad news out of the way: The journalism industry is in crisis. Hundreds of jobs were cut at the Washington Post this week. The good news is that Washington City Paper is here—and we’re ...
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