The Daily Aztec

Yung Guero, the SDSU singer who uses his Mexican heritage to fuel his music

In Cole Carillo’s parents’ home in Southern California, the walls are colorful; Hispanic paintings hang on the walls, a ...
American Songwriter

3 Song Lyrics From the 1980s That You’ll Never Forget

Music is a common mnemonic device, which may explain why you remember 1980s song lyrics but not a lick of what you’ve studied ...
American Songwriter

The Controversy Behind “One of the Most Classic American Songs Ever Written”—and Why Some Claim Hank Williams Didn’t Write It

Find out more about the mysterious teenage writer who, some say, never got credit for Hank Williams' "I"m So Lonesome I Could Cry".
WBUR

Mexican-American artist Louie The Singer paved his road in country music

Luis Alfonso Palacios II, known as Louie The Singer, took the long road to music success in an effort to avoid the limiting expectations of the industry as a Mexican-American country artist.
The Beaumont Enterprise

Mexican Americans balance tradition and modernity in Day of the Dead celebrations

This weekend, Mexican American families across the U.S. will gather to honor their ancestors with altars, marigolds and sugar skulls on Dia de los Muertos — the Day of the Dead. In recent years, the ...
Texas Public Radio

Mesoamerican connections to modern Mexican American identity, and a coach from the barrio integrates basketball

Harvard scholar Davíd Carrasco discusses Chicano ties to Mesoamerica and a film project about his father's integration of a university basketball team.