“The Mars Volta hits hard, loud, otherworldly”
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: Tempo
Date: April 22, 2008
Category: Music Reviews
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: Arts & Entertainment
Date: April 20, 2008
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: Arts & Entertainment
Date: April 6, 2008
“Black Moth drawn to the light of a psychedelic, self-indulgent night”
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: Tempo
Date: Monday, March 31, 2008
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: Arts & Entertainment
Date: March 2, 2008
“A Latin American plaza springs up in Chicago”
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: On the Town
Date: January 25, 2008
“Here’s how Cuba manages to span North America”
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: On the Town
Date: January 25, 2008
By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: Tempo
Date: Monday, November 26, 2007
There’s something about San Antonio that breeds bands who just don’t give a fuck.
“It’s a daily struggle to keep an identity,” Quetzal’s song “20 Pesos” opines. “I don’t want to be folklore.” The third track on their new album, Sing The Real (Vanguard), also followed the opener at their Chicago debut, in which a modest crowd of mainly 20- and 30-something Latinos (like the band) chilled to the eight-piece combo’s deep excavations of son Mexicano and Afro-Caribbean rhythms delivered with R&B/soul stylistics matching ranchera fervor from lead duet Martha and Gabriel Gonzalez.
