MEXICO CITY (AP) – Banda music is the soundtrack of modern Mexico, with its thumping polka beat and trumpets blasting everywhere from rural fairs to working-class Mexico City weddings. And it's ...

"No one has done anything like this before," said JOP of the lineup featuring Los Tucanes de Tijuana, Saweetie, and Snow tha ...

The band's founder, Sergio Lizárraga, reflects on transcending expectations (and ruling the Latin charts) in a world where regional Mexican music doesn't always get its due. By Leila Cobo Chief ...

But there’s one musical genre Laferte had yet to tackle until now: banda, the celebratory style originated in the Mexican ...

With its tuba-driven bass and funky brass trumpets and trombones, banda music lends itself to sampling as well as anything from George Clinton or James Brown’s catalog, a point that L.A. hip-hop duo ...

Iconic regional Mexican group Banda El Recodo has renewed their recording contract with Universal Music Latin Entertainment. Founded 75 years ago, the group recently signed on to continue making… By ...

As a 26-year-old communications student at Washington State University with a deep passion for music, entertainment and writing, I have always been fascinated by the world of regional Mexican music.

Along both sides of the Texas-Mexico border region, accordion-based conjunto, norteño and Tejano rules the airwaves and serves as a reminder of the cultural cross-pollination that resulted when the ...

As a child, Lucius Chiccio Banda had little interest in music - he spent his days playing football instead. But Banda's older brother coaxed him to join a church band, setting him on a path to become ...