ARTS * 4, The Michigan Daily Friday, April 3, 1987 Pag97 Diligent Los Lobos triumphs al By Alan Paul Los Lobos is the hottest band in America. After several years as college radio and club circuit heroes, the band is the rock and roll toast of the media, with features in Time, Rolling Stone and Musician magazines. Their recent release,By the Light of the Moon , has already been proclaimed by many as the album of the year. The members of Los Lobos possess a rare ability to match poignant social commentary with catchy danceable melodies, and to mix rollicking blues stomps, soulful ballads, and traditional ethnic musics. They manage to make such diverse elements blend together and work beautifully, somehow creating highly original music from familiar and proven stylistic sources. A large part of the band's success stems from the fact that they have been playing together for almost fifteen years. Co-leaders Cesar Rosas and David Hidalgo go back to seventh grade. These guys don't come across as rock stars but rather as a bunch of buddies who make music together. They look like the paunchy, working class Mexican American fathers that they are (or were). It's just that their work is playing rock and roll music. It would be possible at this point to write Los Lobos off as another promising band who sold out for the big time, who turned their normal guys image into legend status a ta Springsteen. But that would be myopic. Rather, let's applaud the fact that the good guys have won one, a band which truly deserves it is receiving critical and popular acclaim. In1973, after individually doing time in Top 40 bands, the members of Los Lobos came together, intent on discovering the Mexican folk music they grew up hearing though mostly ignoring. "We were just rock and roll musicians and we discovered this stuff," drummer Louie Perez told Musician. "All of a sudden it was like we lifted a rock and there was this incredible life teeming under it. At that time everyone was into Clapton. Man, Clapton couldn't even get near what these people were doing." For eight years the band remained all-acoustic, all-traditional, learning how to play ever more Mexican instruments such as the bajo sexto, vihuela, and guitarron. In 1980, Los Lobos had a gig playing a Mexican restaurant six nights a week, four hours a night. Growing bored of playing the same thing, they began to add electric instruments and play a wide variety of music ranging from samba to Hendrix covers to surf music and, of course, Mexican folk. At the time, Hollywood's "new music" scene was thriving. Los Lobos sent a tape to the Blasters, who asked them to open for them at the legendary Whiskey A Go-Go. The new music crowds were impressed by the band's obvious sincerity and ability to mix razor sharp blues numbers with polkas and Mexican ballads; the traditional Mexican acoustic band soon found themselves becoming a popular rock club attraction. Los Lobos' debut EP ...And a Time to Dance garnered them a grammy for Best Mexican - -American performance. Their first album How Will the Wolf Survive? received much critical praise and last propelled them to a tie for best band with a certain Bruce in Rolling Stone's 1984 Critic's Poll. They backed Paul Simon on one cut ofGraceland. And now they have become the most critically acclaimed band in the land by proving that it is possible to think and dance at the same time. Zydeco wunderkinds Terrance Simien and The Mallet Playboys open the show at 8, less than two weeks after burning up the Blind Pig dancefloor. This band is a true~ delight, particularly for those neophytes unititiated to the joys of zydeco, that good time Louisiana gumbo of cajun, blues, and soul music. Don't come late. Tickets are $14.50 and available at the box office, Schoolkid' s Records, PJ' s Used Records, and all TicketMaster locations. Four to dance at McIntosh By Jose-Arturo Martinez We're approaching the end of an - other academic year, and with it the annual year-end concerts. Therefore, this is the time of year that the University's dance department showcases its students in various CLASSIFIED ADS 764-0557 Continued frorm Previoiis Pa.e BFA and MFA student concerts, giving them their last opportunity to strut their stuff. Tonight and tomorrow night, undergraduate seniors Joy Grad, Tracy Journee Thornton, and Jennifer Weiser as well as graduate student Greg Patterson, will present eight original works in Patterson, Grad, Weiser and Thornton Dance in concert at the School of Music McIntosh Theatre. The format will consist of some form of a group and solo work that each dancer has created. Gregory Patterson will present The Nature of Womyn, a narrative group work that takes a feminist perspective in exploring the female's role in traditional male- dominated society and women helping each other towards independence. 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