July 29, 2011, was the last day on the air for the original KEDA 1540 AM, Radio Jalapeño. For the last few months, the legendary conjunto station has resumed operations in a new building on West ...

On Friday, July 29, “Güero Polkas” (Ricky Dávila, the Wolfman Jack of San Antonio radio) signed off the air for the last time in 44 years. It was his last show and the beginning of the end of KEDA ...

Earlier this year, the Chronicle's Andrew Dansby wrote of legendary polka band Brave Combo: There exists no greater invitation to dance than the music of Brave Combo. The Texas mainstay has been ...

That's Güero Polkas-speak for 'nuff said (or conjunto is chicken soup for the soul). “Bajo sexto y acordeon para alegrar el corazon,” said KEDA's Ricky “Güero Polkas” Davila, touting the family-owned ...

San Benito-Austin-based documentary filmmaker Hector Galan couldn’t have picked a better backdrop than the historic La Villita dancehall and the Rio Grande Valley-birthplace of conjunto music-to ...

Aug. 1 (UPI) --Texas conjunto music pioneer Flaco Jimenez, 86, died while surrounded by his family at one of his son's homes on Thursday night, his family announced. Flaco was born in San Antonio in ...

Aaron Salinas, the 2014 Grand Prize Winner the conjunto category in the ¡Encore Pachanga! Accordion Music Festival presented by the Museum of Street Culture. (Photo by Marcy Garriott, courtesy of ...

SAN ANTONIO — Jesus “Chucho” Perales, a pioneering rock 'n' roll musician whose talent took him from rough West Side conjunto bars to “American Bandstand” and the Las Vegas Strip, died at home Sunday ...

At 86 years old, Johnny Degollado's still "The Montopolis Kid" and has the address to prove it. The historically Mexican thoroughfare is changing rapidly – culturally and demographically – but some ...