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 ...

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With artists like Peso Pluma and Fuerza Regida dominating the charts, we explain the different subgenres that fall under regional Mexican music. By Tere Aguilera Regional Mexican music is dominating ...

The group that originated banda music and that has been around for over half a century, is coming to town this weekend. Banda El Recodo will bring the Pima County Fair to a close with a concert on ...

It's not exactly how one might expect a Grammy winner to describe his happy, pan-Latino dance music - unless he sings under a three-ring big top with fire eaters, lions and clowns. That doesn't apply ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

While the sounds of industry now reign during daytime, Manila's Pandacan district still holds on to its musical soul MANILA, Philippines – If you take a shortcut through the gritty side streets of ...

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 ...