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Members of the band Quetzal — Quetzal Flores, left, Alberto Lopez, Martha Gonzalez, Evan Greer and Juan Perez — rehearse in Los Angeles. The Grammy-winning East L.A. band has been one of the most ...

Born out of a small café in Little Tokyo and driven by Chicano rock, rhythm and blues, Afro-Cuban rhythms, rancheras, salsa and soul, for the past three decades the Los Angeles-based ensemble Quetzal ...

A seminal Chicano rock band is on the lineup for the AVA at Casino del Sol’s Chicano Tucsano Music Festival this weekend. Thee Midniters were in rare company when they started in the 1960s and landed ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — They are seen as the progenitors of Chicano rock ‘n’ roll, the first band that had the boldness, and some might even say the naiveté, to fuse punk rock with Mexican folk tunes. It ...