Music Break

Pistolera is a NYC-based band the plays an original hybrid of Mexican ranchera, cumbia, banda, and rock. Accordion melodies are followed by distorted riffs and frontwoman Sandra Lilia Velasquez (daughter of prominent immigration attorney — and Cal Western law professor — Lilia Velasquez) delivers her all Spanish lyrics like a bullet to your senses.  Immigration themes can be found in their music.  Check out Pistolera’s music video (here) with footage of the spring 2006 immigrant rights marches.  For more on the band, check out their website at http://www.pistolera.net and its new CD “Siempre Hay Salida.”

P.S.  To see, Lilia Velasquez (the proud mother of Sandra of Pistolera) comment on the problems with the numbers of family visas, click here.