Y La Bamba
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Y La Bamba Opens Up About Breaking Curses on “Lucha”
The Mexican-American singer-songwriter transformed pain and trauma into soft reflections of identity and healing on lush new LP
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Y La Bamba Releases Lo-Fi Lullaby 'La Última Vez' via Sub Pop
New seven-inch single includes “Mariposa De Coalcomán," out now via Sub Pop Singles Club
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This Week in Latin Music: Hear New Releases by Y La Bamba, Girl Ultra and Guaynaa
Plus: iLe takes the streets, Riobamba drops immigrant benefit compilation, Monogem makes Spanish-language debut
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Y La Bamba's New EP, 'Entre Los Dos,' Is Food for the Bicultural Soul
Mexican American bandleader Luz Elena Mendoza on leaving the United States, queering the mariachi suit
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Court The Storm
It figures that matter-of-fact polyglots like Y La Bamba would vibe with producer Steve Berlin of matter-of-fact polyglots Los Lobos, who warms up Bamba's folk-rocking second record. Frontwoman Luz Elena Mendoza can warble tremulously like a Latina Joanna Newsom, then let rip a robust alt-country holler not unlike that of Neko Case, who joins the band […]
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