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are more than just a band, they're an institution. And not just a Los Angeles institution, as their 1978 album, Just Another Band from East L.A., satirically alerts us. They are an international, ...

Much like the lupine creature that lends the band its name, Los Lobos has proven an adaptable entity. The group from East Los Angeles has endured and prospered for nearly a half century by trusting ...

Los Lobos has covered some ground in their 40-plus years. From after-school barrio garage jam sessions to one of the biggest, most enough already smash singles of all time (“La Bamba”—maybe you’ve ...

I have spent two weeks listening to the new Los Lobos CD “Tin Can Trust,” and I think it is one of their best-ever CDs. Their message, which comes from a point of view developed while growing up ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Unlike his four band mates in Los Lobos, Steve Berlin isn't Hispanic and he didn't grow up in Los Angeles. Berlin is of Russian heritage and spent his childhood in Philadelphia. Despite those ...

It was a cold December day when Los Lobos arrived in Buffalo, but they did their best to heat up the Tralf Music Hall by playing torrid, hot, smoking (fill in other appropriate adjectives here) set of ...

The best rock 'n' roll show I ever saw was Los Lobos at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas on April 22, 1987. The band was at the height of its power, a finely calibrated, piston-slamming beast of a ...