Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2015 nominees
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“F— tha Police.” One song.
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At this point, most Los Angeles citizens understand the importance of Los Lobos to the DNA of the city.
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Here’s something you may not have known: There is a Facebook page called “Induct Janet Jackson into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” that currently has over 75,000 followers.
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The groundbreaking gangsta rap of N.W.A, the catholic pan-American rock of Los Lobos, the expansive progressive rock of Yes and the boundary-stretching R&B of Janet Jackson have earned each of those acts a shot at induction next year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which has announced its field of 15 nominees.
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The site of Los Lobos’ homecoming record release party earlier this week seemed unsettling: the former Ramirez Mortuary in East Los Angeles, where a concert stage had been set up in what reportedly once was the embalming room.
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Janet Jackson was born in 1966, the youngest of nine children.
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The East L.A. band Los Lobos looks back in wonder at its 1992 album “Kiko,” which shook the pop music scene.
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Janet Jackson is well aware of the job at hand on her first album in seven years, and she doesn’t waste any time facing up to it.
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Los Lobos performed an intimate concert for family and friends to celebrate their new album, “Gates of Gold,” at El Gallo Plaza in East Los Angeles on Sept. 29.
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“I’m not a robot.
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In recording its “The Neighborhood” album, Los Lobos wrestled with questions of artistic purity and commercial compromise.
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Wherever you turn on the Eastside, it seems you’ll find someone with something to say about Los Lobos.
