Chumash casino radio commercial11/16/2023 The band formed in the ’70s by the Hernández brothers-Sinaloans in San-Jose-is a super superstar band, not only in Mexican regional music but in American music in the broadest (and truest) sense. Anglo media has yet to give proper credit and inkage to the splendors of Mexican regional music (which we can hear on our radio dials locally via Radio Bronco), or to other Latino music beyond pop-style stars. Of course, to say that a New Yorker profile somehow anoints and elevates the band’s importance would smack of ethno-centric fooey. We might idly thumb through untold numbers of other magazines, reading bits and pieces, but the New Yorker seems the authoritative mothership of magazines, and a happily time-sucking reading experience.Īnd so, when the New Yorker suddenly came out with one of its blissfully long, seemingly rambling, but actually focused and comprehensive profiles of the great norteño band Los Tigres del Norte, in May, the sensors of importance zoomed upward. Those of us tending to drink that Kool-Aid covet the magazine, considering it the go-to source for what needs to be known in this insanely info-overloaded age, even if it means catching up on a month’s worth of issues on a plane. TIGERS BY THE TALE: New Yorker-philes are a strange breed.
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