Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, 'A Man Alive' Last time we checked in with Thao Nguyen, she’d been evoking Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, strumming a banjo outside a women’s prison and singing her “We the ...

It’s a Mexican ranchera. No, it’s a Chicago blues number! Or is it a San Francisco psychedelia-era jam session? Actually, Los Cenzontles, a Bay Area-based musical outfit with a fluid personnel lineup, ...

Los Cenzontles means “the mockingbirds” in the indigenous Nahuatl language. The band mixes traditional Mexican music with contemporary sounds including American rock and soul. They’ve collaborated ...

If you love new music, but you don't have the time to keep up with what's hip and new, we've got the perfect segment for you: Tuesday Reviewsday. Every week our music experts bring in their top picks, ...

Join us to celebrate Mexican music and culture featuring Los Cenzontles, a Bay Area-based arts academy and band that amplifies Mexican American culture through education, performance, and production.

The Mexican rock band Los Jaguares doesn”t often use opening acts. The Jaguares” fan base is notoriously hard on whatever luckless band takes the stage as a warm-up act to their heroes. On the surface ...

Deep rivers of pride and pain commingle in Eugene Rodriguez's new memoir, "Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging" (Heyday Books, 224 pages, $28). Writing with ...

Judging from its storefront in a gritty San Pablo strip mall off San Pablo Avenue, Los Cenzontles could easily be mistaken for just another cultural center in the East Bay. But to step through those ...

Raza De Oro is the newest album from Los Cenzontles ("The Mockingbirds"), a remarkable group from San Pablo, Calif. There's no big record label behind this music, made mostly by a bunch of kids who ...

Linda Ronstadt had yet another trick up her sleeve. While grudgingly agreeing to cooperate on the hit 2019 documentary “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,” she quietly set a different plan in ...