Today’s song, featured on The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters, is "Mujeres” by Y La Bamba, from the 2019 album Mujeres on Tender Loving Empire.
As KEXP celebrates its 50th anniversary, we’re looking back at the last half-century of music. Each week in 2022, KEXP pays homage to a different year and our writers are commemorating with one song from that year that resonates with them. This week, Albina reflects on the 2016 Y La Bamba song “Ojo…
“I'm just writing to write and to let that be heard.” Luz Elena Mendoza says she processes events and experiences pretty quickly, and it shows in her songs, full of musical ideas with vibrant energy. The Y La Bamba leader clearly has a lot to say, and in this session with DJ Sharlese on Audio…
Featuring the Lumineers, Tyler, the Creator, Y La Bamba, and more.
KEXP's Emily Fox chats with the Portland-based musician about toxic masculinity and confronting misogyny.
Portland band's latest covers the mystic and ancestral journey led by singer and composer Luz Elena Mendoza.
The Los Angeles band, Las Cafeteras, named themselves after a community space in El Sereno, L.A. where group members met one another and started to learn and play Son Jarocho music together, influenced by regional Mexican folk music. The band feminized the name to honor women, they note. Modern day…
On the show this time, it’s the Mexican-American indie-folk of Portland’s Y La Bamba.
For Live on KEXP, Troy Nelson takes us through an abbreviated version of Y La Bamba’s journey from lo-fi self-produced recordings to working with a vast array of talented musicians and producers out of Portland.
Y La Bamba speaks with KEXP about family, Mexican American identity, queerness, and mental health, and how these themes show up in their music.
In this episode, Isabel Khalili talks with Kevin Sur, co-host of KEXP's global Indigenous music show, Sounds of Survivance.
