A children's album that celebrates rock music and Mexican folk, featuring the narrative and frequent lead vocals of collaborator Lalo Guerrero. For the kid, sure, but a...
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Los Lobos accompany Papa Lalo and some children on a trip to Mexico to celebrate his birthday, finding time along the way to sing everything from "La Bamba" to "Wooly...
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Their first rock release in four years, Colossal Head picks up where Kiko left off, pushing the envelope. Big on grooves, a song like "Life Is Good" is the perfect...
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Unlike most bands in their second decade of recording, Los Lobos gets more daring and diverse as they get older, creating sonic landscapes that are based in their justly...
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This all-English record occasionally misses the mark with efforts that sound forced (the honking blues of "Shakin' Shakin' Shakes") and instantly dated (the...
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On How Will the Wolf Survive?, Los Lobos seemed to be feeling out the boundaries of how much they could say about the hard realities of life within the framework of...
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After the overdose of "La Bamba," the Wolves went traditional with La Pistola. The follow-up was The Neighborhood, a raucous return to blues-y rock n roll and plainspoken...
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In 1987, Los Lobos released their ambitious and contemplative By the Light of the Moon and the surprise-hit soundtrack album La Bamba, while the following year they recorded...
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Entirely Spanish, entirely acoustic. The most difficult Los Lobos record to sit through if for no reason other than the language spoken is not universal. Chalk it up to...
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Los Lobos used the commercial breakthrough represented by La Bamba to turn to its first love, Mexican folk music, and recorded this excellent collection of norteņo songs. If...
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By the time Los Lobos made their debut on record, they already had a half-decade of live gigs under their belt. That initial independent release, Del Este de Los Angeles,...
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Non-stop sweat as Los Lobos introduce themselves to the rock world via a seven-song EP that covers Ritchie Valens, makes the accordion rock and blurs the lines between...
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1983's ...And a Time to Dance wasn't Los Lobos' first record, but if you lived outside of East Los Angeles, chances are excellent that you'd never crossed paths with a copy...
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A testament to the working class, who live and love just like everyone else. Delivered in a spirited package that is well-versed in everything from swing to Tex-Mex to...
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Los Lobos spent years playing parties, wedding receptions, restaurants, bars, and anyplace else where someone might pay them for a gig before landing a deal with Slash...
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Los Lobos as art-rock band? Well, they definitely upped the level of experimentation, that's for sure. Trippy and cinematic, Kiko is like a dream where a roots-rock band...
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Los Lobos had earned a reputation as one of the most intelligent and creative roots rock acts in America with the albums By the Light of the Moon and The Neighborhood, but...
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A multi-disc, authoritative box set usually arrives toward the end of an artist's career, which is what made the appearance of Los Lobos' four-disc retrospective El...
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You gotta wonder what Los Lobos thinks of this whole Latin music explosion, since they've been recording Spanish music since the early '80s. "Cumbia Raza,"...
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Given all the extracurricular projects members of Los Lobos pursued during the three years separating Colossal Head and its followup, it's not surprising that they've...
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There's not many rock bands that can take a simple 12-bar blues and come up with something unique--but that's precisely what Los Lobos does on "Done Gone Blue," the opening...
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Great rock & roll bands aren't supposed to be as modest as Los Lobos, an unlikely band comprised of five world-class musicians who write, sing, and play brilliantly, have...
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Not counting compilations and live recordings, The Ride is the 11th album by East Los Angelinos Los Lobos. And in contrast to the rest of their hefty catalog, it stands as a...
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Los Lobos are, quite simply, one of America's great rock bands, and versatile enough to put their stamp on practically any sort of music they choose. Anyone looking for...
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Although it's nigh impossible to clearly portray the pop music of a decade on a ten-track disc, Billboard #1 Hits of the '80s does a fair job by compiling ten of the most...
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In 1978, when Los Lobos was paying their bills by playing weddings and Mexican restaurants in the greater Los Angeles area, they put out an independent album of their...
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While Los Lobos have made a handful of great albums during the course of their career, you have to see them live to fully appreciate their status as one of America's best...
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