On the one hand, Los Lobos have come a long way in 40 years. On the other hand, the band has never left the backyards and front porches of East L.A. From its roots as a traditional conjunto through ...

The East L.A. band Los Lobos looks back in wonder at its 1992 album “Kiko,” which shook the pop music scene. This article was originally published Sept. 16, 2012. STATELY, COOL-EYED DAVID HIDALGO took ...

Kiko Live is a straightforward, unadorned concert video, but with some split screen features, and is devoid of fancy cuts and obtuse camera angles. There are no distractions to be seen. You simply get ...

With the August 21 20th anniversary edition of Los Lobos’ masterpiece, Kiko (1992), the East L.A. band celebrates two decades of an album that defined them as a band. The celebration includes the ...

While it might be a stretch (if not irreverent) to compare this album with an immaculate conception, at the time of its original release, Kiko was nearly as substantial a surprise as Mary and Joseph's ...

"It was a life-changing experience as a songwriter," Los Lobos’ multi-instrumentalist/co-songwriter Louie Pérez told the Current about the making of Kiko (1992 ...

Los Lobos dropped into the studios of KCRW-FM (89.9) in Santa Monica on Wednesday to revisit the veteran East L.A. roots-rock band’s watershed 1992 album, “Kiko,” by playing it nearly in its entirety ...

Kiko El Crazy broke out in the Dominican Republic with some of the dembow’s scene most off-the-wall songs — spry and agile, like they were moving in fast-forward, punctuated with a signature shake of ...

Full-bodied and powerful, Kiko Villamizar’s golden voice aches, even as it soars, on his second album, “Aguas Frias,” which is scheduled to come out on local imprint Discos Peligrosa later this month.

With the male gaita, a Colombian reed flute, in his left hand, Kiko Villamizar beckons the drummers with an airy looping riff. The male gaita’s job is to ground —to “hold the seeds of the group in the ...