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✨ Join us for a FREE double feature screening of the 50th anniversary 4K restoration of “Chulas Fronteras” (1976) and its sister film, “Del Mero Corazón” (1979). 🎥

“Chulas Fronteras” directed by Les Blank and Chris Strachwitz, celebrates the community, familial bonds, and ethos of famed Tejano musicians of the borderlands. 🎞️

“Del mero corazón” (“Straight from the Heart”), directed by Les Blank and Maureen Gosling, was constructed from outtakes from Chulas Fronteras and additional footage shot in California to take the viewer on a lyrical journey through the heart of Chicano culture via love songs of the conjunto tejano and musica norteña traditions. 🎶

🎤 Screenings will be followed by a Q&A with Maureen Gosling (Assistant Editor of “Chulas Fronteras” and Director of “Del mero corazón”), Juan Antonio Cuéllar (Archivist at Los Cenzontles Music and Art Academy), and Dr. Micaela Diáz-Sánchez (Professor of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara) moderated by Dr. Alex E. Chávez (Associate Professor of Anthropology at Notre Dame University).

🪗 Our evening will open with a taste of LIVE Tejano music with Corridos performed by Gallo Armado from Monterrey, México, with DJ sets by Sonido Sabotaje & Trucha Soul closing out the night. 💙

🔗 LINK TO RSVP IN BIO

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Portland came through! What an amazing night w/ @collar.de.lunas. Next up, Seattle @babayagaseattle @earshotjazz. Tix link in bio.

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🎶 Latin jazz Chicago based band @dossantoschi stopped by the @thelamashack to interview and share new dates on their national tour.

Listen to their new album and catch them in a city near you!

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Folks have started to receive their copies, so, it feels right: honored to say ‘Wild Tongue: A Borderlands Mixtape’ is out from Duke University Press❤️‍🔥🖤😭🎧💿

My deep thanks to everyone who helped make this one possible. Who paved the way in many spaces, who’ve been along for the long ride these many years. It is a gift to commune with you—especially those at home in the RGV, the #956, to whom this book is dedicated.

This project is one very small piece of a much larger cultural tapestry. It is a mixtape: a personal, tender offering that compresses many kinds of research and modes of writing across discipline and genre, different songs and voices, theories and memories, concepts and scenes—all into a sonic collage I hope others can take much further. The book rests on many shoulders, and I’m really grateful to everyone who helped make it a reality.

Amid these broken, frenetic, and cruel days, I hope this project offers a little affirmation, transport, and dreaming. If you pick it up, I hope it greets you with something new; that it invites you to create your own mix, your own songs and albums; and that it nudges you, in some way, to hold close those people and places you love.

A thousand abrazos.

Puro Pinche 956 ALV

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‘Wild Tongue’ available at: www.dukepress.edu/wild-tongue
@dukeuniversitypress

Coupon code “E26WILD” = 30% discount on the paperback when ordering from Duke. 📚

#956Forever
#Puro956
#WildTongue
#DukeUniversityPress

❤️‍🔥💿🌴☀️🎧

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Portrait mode. Love seeing all our family and friends on the road. Blessed. Next up @kuumbwajazz tonight!

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I’ve had the honor of creating great music this year with these amazing artists and collaborators. Thank you for listening!
@peermusic @manumanzo @charliesepulvedapr @___caminante___ @yeyasmiles @kerrekemusic @alf_ordonez @borism @germanlandaeta @oldmillrd @nati

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WEST COAST! Los Angeles—last night was amazing! Thank you to all the fans, friends, and fam that came out to support. And a special abrazo to our compañera @que.madre & the homie @maddgalaxy for rolling through. NEXT UP: OAKLAND @yoshis_oak. Shouts to @xandao_sound @ereizmusica @ozgood @quetzalmusic @marthartivista @mkngmvs @niecey_cat @adrianmquesada @churchchords76 @otherly_love

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For your Grammy® Consideration • ES AMOR • Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album.

Produced by Grammy Award–winning Beto Martinez and released on @otherly_love , Es Amor is a groove haven—a thrumming balm for hard days. Across ten tracks, tight, intricate arrangements bring son jarocho and cumbia together with psychedelic rock, contemporary jazz, and Afro-Cuban percussion in a distinctly Américan conversation, creating peaks and valleys meant to be met with hips, feet, hands, and hearts.

While writing the title track “Es Amor,” Chávez was struck by a melody that felt strangely familiar; weeks later, he discovered that his father had recorded that melody decades earlier. “Making this album together, each of us bringing our own stories and experiences, I couldn’t help but think of my father, of his melody, of everyone like him, then and now,” Chávez said. “Of people, immigrants, writing and singing love songs in the most brutal of circumstances, amidst power working to deny them their very humanity.” In turn, Dos Santos remind us of our linked stories and places and movements, and, in the face of overwhelming odds, of the urgency of renewed connection, and of what that feeling can sound like.

Equal parts dream and memory, spirit echo and migration story, this album’s core message—delivered with ánimo and style—love, in all its shades and surprise appearances, remains the most spirited, lasting response to a world marred by hate.
 Produced by @elbigtoe
Recorded @lechehousemusic & @d0uglassssss Mastered by @sampatlove @buds_recording_services Original Artwork by @diskeuno Design by @jaimediablero Layout by @jkotting Videos by @osvaldofcuevas & starring @la__olita Bio by @jonathanjleal  #newmusic #newalbum #esamor

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Our live video performance of “Cielos” from our new album “Es Amor” is now up on youtube! We had an amazing time putting this together! It was filmed and directed by @osvaldofcuevas at @channelrecordingcompany and features @cambronee & @rinconmusica. LINK IN BIO!

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For decades, Dos Santos members Jaime Garza and Alex E. Chávez have been students and practitioners of traditional Mexican musics, including the Afro-diasporic son jarocho of Southern Mexico and the huapango stylings of the Central Mexican highlands. These sounds—known the world over—are an indispensable part of Mexico’s musical legacy. On Cielos, Dos Santos draws on these influences—their rhythms, instruments, and poetics—as the foundation of a song that harkens toward the spirit and feel of son jarocho and huapango. The traditional leona, jarana, and quijada instruments are at the heart of the composition, which also incorporates afro-Latin percussion and keyboards. The lyrics—written by both Garza and Chávez—are in the traditional copla style found throughout Latin America and speak of dancing as both embodied memory and deeply connected to the ebbs and flows of nature. And in that spirit, musically, the composition evokes the sounds of a late-night, fire-breathing fandango, as musicians passionately sing and play—casting out melodies and verses into the night—while dancers trace out poetry with their patterned steps past sunrise.

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CHICAGO!!! We’ll be at the @emptybottle for a homecoming show on DEC 5 w/some amazing special guests! TIX ON SALE NOW! LINK IN BIO.

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Cookin’ up something special for you. Stay tuned! Thanks to @cranedrum @channelrecordingcompany @osvaldofcuevas

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!!2026 TOUR!!

We had an amazing time @hopscotchfest last week & are excited for all the upcoming shows in support of our new LP “Es Amor.” Can’t wait to be in the presence of all your wonderful energy out on the road. TIX LINK IN BIO.

10/13 @golddiggersla Los Angeles, CA
10/14 @yoshis_oak Oakland, CA
10/15 @kuumbwajazz Santa Cruz, CA
10/16 @polarishallpdx Portland, OR
10/17 @babayagaseattle Seattle, WA
10/18 @theamericanvancouver Vancouver
10/22 @deepellumartco Dallas, TX
10/23 @wonkypower Houston, TX
10/24 @continentalclubatx Austin, TX
12/17 @tech25pgh Pittsburgh, PA
12/18 @jamminjava Vienna, VA
12/19 @publicrecordsnyc Brooklyn, NY

ALL STREAMING & ORDER LINKS IN BIO

#newmusic #newalbum #tour #cumbia

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