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 ...

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, ...

I can’t blame Roco, the singer for Maldita Vecindad, for lying to me. “Yeah, man… We have material for two or three albums,” he used to tell me for years. “Anytime now.” Yeah, right. The “anytime” ...

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 ...

Josh Kun last wrote for the magazine about the changing Chicano art scene in Los Angeles. In the late 1940s, Edmundo Martinez Tostado, a.k.a. Don Tosti, recorded “Pachuco Boogie,” the unofficial ...

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Among other reasons, zoot suits are remembered for making Edward James Olmos look good, and for being the subject of a Cherry Poppin' Daddies song. So what if that swing revival didn't really pan out?

Don Tosti, a musician and composer who blended elements of jazz, boogie and blues to create the Latin "Pachuco" sound of the 1940s-era Zoot Suit culture died yesterday (Aug. 2) at his Palm Springs… By ...

Frenzied ska and old-style pachuco boogie come together in the latest from Los Skarnales. The band's new CD, Pachuco Boogie Sound System, bristles with energetic dance-hall rhythms, rockabilly, Latin ...

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 ...

Don Tosti, a musician and composer who blended elements of jazz, boogie and blues to create the Latin "Pachuco" sound of the 1940s-era Zoot Suit culture, died yesterday (Aug. 2) at his home in Palm… ...