Pachuco boogie, the postwar, Mexican-American adaptation of jump blues named after the 1948 Don Tosti single that launched the subgenre, came to fruition in East L.A., but its roots are in El Paso, ...

Los Angeles – The dance floor at “Barrio Boogie Sunday” is filled with sharply dressed women in flouncy skirts and brightly colored fitted blouses, being twirled in perfect swing rhythm by their ...

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Don Tosti, the bandleader who helped spark a Mexican American musical craze half a century ago with his tune “Pachuco Boogie,” has died. He was 81. Tosti, who was diagnosed with advanced prostate ...

Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero Jr., who for 60 years created songs in Spanish and English chronicling the Mexican-American experience, including Pachuco music later used in the play "Zoot Suit," has died… By ...

Remember when I said that if you just ignored the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, they’d go away? Well, those carpetbaggers appear to have retreated back to Oregon, and here’s your reward: the real zoot-suit ...

Labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez expressed an interest in music from an early age. He grew up identifying as a pachuco, a young Mexican-American who wore zoot suits and listened to ...