Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ Enrique Lopetegui ’

The winning poster of the Tejano Conjunto Festival 2013, by Bart Thomas. Here’s some highlights (in order of appearance) from the 2013 Tejano Conjunto Festival that ended Sunday at Rosedale Park. SA’s own Los Nahuatlatos kicked off the “New Directions in Conjunto” night Thursday at the Guadalupe Theater. Their final song was a new...
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The Piñata Protest team doesn’t do anything in a conventional way, so even though the first single of El Valiente, the band’s new EP, is “Tomorrow, Today,” the first video associated with the new recording is this crazy version of “La Cucaracha.” “I saw a video of a guy going through a tour of...
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Bosnian Rainbows, the first post-The Mars Volta project from Omar Rodríguez-López, unveiled the video for second single “Turtle Neck.” It is a stop-motion work directed by Rodríguez-López featuring the band (which includes Teri Gender Bender from Le Butcherettes, Deantoni Parks and Nikki Kasper) in their travels around the world. The self-titled album will be...
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Beloved folk icon Richie Havens died this morning at his home in New Jersey from a sudden heart attack. He was 72. Even though he was never a mega-seller, he was instantly immortalized by his stirring Woodstock performance in 1969. Also known for his covers of pop, rock, and folk classics, he reached no....
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Stephanie Guerra, Lindsay Rodríguez and Bryon Farris correctly answered Metric’s trivia question and will get to see the Canadian band perform at the Pearl Stable on April 29. Come to our office no later than Monday April 29 at noon, show your ID (you must be over 21) and the tickets are yours. We’re...
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(photo by Brantley Gutiérrez) In case you didn’t know, Toronto’s Metric will be performing at the Pearl Stable on Monday, April 29. Doors open at 8pm and music starts with Bad Books. The show is free, and that’s the good thing. The bad thing is that registration for the concert, part of Jack Daniel’s...
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Lonely Horse (Nick Long on guitar and vocals and Travis Hild on drums) won the regional qualifier of the Hard Rock Rising competition organized by Hard Rock Café and will battle 95 other bands from around the world. The goal is to earn enough votes to become one of 25 finalists, and then a...
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After walking up and down the governor’s mansion all night, Texas governor Sam Houston made a decision. “Margaret, I will not do it,” he told his wife. He would not recognize the legality of the 1861 secession efforts, even knowing it would cost him the governorship. “He lived the rest of his days, in...
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(photo courtesy sascorpions.com) In front of a crowd of 8,117 fans that included Mayor Julián Castro, the San Antonio Scorpions lost 0-2 to defending champions Tampa Bay Rowdies Saturday night at Toyota Field. Even though the Rowdies were clearly the better team, the Scorpions again showed their usual fighting spirit and did have several...
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If corrupt bankers in the U.S. ever go to jail (as their colleagues in Iceland did), chances are Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) will be behind the effort, as will those who lost their homes through the illegal maneuverings of people who walked free because, hey, you can’t punish banks — they’re just too big....
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(Photo courtesy of sascorpions.com) The San Antonio Scorpions kicked-off their North American Soccer League’s 2013 season earning a fair 0-0 draw against Minnesota United FC. It was a lively, wide open game with scoring chances for both teams. Twice (once for each team), the ball hit the crossbar and twice Scorpions goalie Pat Hannigan’s...
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On March 28, Time magazine’s double cover reflected the fact that, fortunately indeed, the times they are a-changin’. It featured two gay couples, one male, one female. The latter was that of Kristen Ellis-Henderson (bassist for badass, all-female country-rock band Antigone Rising), and her spouse Sarah Kate Ellis-Henderson. They both got pregnant at the...
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