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Over the past 35 years, The East L.A. band Los Lobos has assembled a body of work diverse enough to cripple most bands and to captivate fans world-wide. Along the way, they?ve redefined how a rock band - and rock music - can sound. Many musical groups are eclectic, but few are both as unpredictable and successful as Los Lobos. The band has notched a number one single, won three Grammys, and sold millions of records. They?ve shared the stage with acts as varied as Bob Dylan, The Clash, and U2. And they?ve received tremendous critical acclaim?from their major label debut, How Will the Wolf Survive? (which made Rolling Stone?s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time) to their most recent effort, 2006?s The Town and The City (which drew four-star reviews in Rolling Stone, Mojo, The Independent and many others). Named for a Jack Kerouac novel, The Town and The City is hard proof that Los Lobos are more vital, valid, and creatively potent than ever. Metacritic.com scored it the tenth best-reviewed album of 2006.

Los Lobos? own journey started in 1973, when David Hidalgo (vocals, guitar, and pretty much anything with strings), Louie Perez (drums, vocals, guitar), Cesar Rosas (vocals, guitar), and Conrad Lozano (bass, vocals, guitarrón) were still roaming the halls of East L.A.?s Garfield High. After graduation they played souped-up Mexican folk music in restaurants and at parties. By the early eighties, however, they?d tapped into L.A.?s burgeoning punk and college rock scenes, landing on bills with bands like the Circle Jerks, Public Image Ltd., and the Blasters, whose saxophonist, Steve Berlin, would eventually leave the group to join Los Lobos, cementing the line-up that still holds today. In 1984, having signed with a division of Warner Bros., they brought home a Grammy for Best Mexican-American performance. That year also saw the release of How Will the Wolf Survive? It was a college rock sensation and Los Lobos tied with Bruce Springsteen as Rolling Stone?s Artist of the Year. The band was a hit with the critics, but in 1987, with the release of the Ritchie Valens biopic, La Bamba, Los Lobos achieved massive commercial success. Their version of Valens? signature song climbed to the top of Billboard singles chart, and suddenly five guys who saw themselves as ?just another band from East L.A.? were superstars. But instead of staying in safe, commercial waters and risking being type-cast as ?that band from the Ritchie Valens movie,? Los Lobos followed the pop-oriented (and double platinum-selling) La Bamba soundtrack with a collection of Mexican folk songs, La Pistola Y El Corazón.

Nearly twenty-plus years after their formation, Los Lobos had reached a creative apex. Amazingly they?ve been able to hold fast to that hard won ground. As Rolling Stone writes, ?With the exception of U2, no other band has stayed on top of its game as long as Los Lobos.? The band has won three Grammy Awards, released sixteen studio albums, a boxset, a greatest hits package, and a live CD/DVD. Many of their peers have called it quits, but Los Lobos have continued to write and record and tour like a band that?s got 35 more years in them.

In 2007, they headed out on a semi-acoustic tour, playing traditional Latin American folk songs. After that sixteen-city jaunt, they fired up their amps and joined John Mellencamp on tour. Most recently, in the Summer of 2008, Los Lobos and Los Lonely Boys hit the road together on the nationally acclaimed and aptly named Brotherhood Tour. This is a return visit on the heals of their rockin? appearance at the 2006 Lowell Summer Music Series.

Website: www.loslobos.org

Opener Arlington?s own blue eyed soul singer Jesse Dee opens the show. For more information visit JesseDee.Com