The popular regional-Mexican band Grupo Firme ignited controversy yet again during a live performance on November 22, defying ...

What made Chalino Sanchez a legend in the Mexican music scene wasn’t that he was shot as he sang onstage. It was that he pulled out a gun and fired back. That moment in 1992 seems to define the ...

Americans listen to gangster rap and love to watch mob flicks. We relish crime depicted well and expect a level of authenticity in the portrayal. It’s nothing out of the ordinary to hire mafia members ...

It’s Saturday night at a rooftop bar in downtown Atlanta, and the band Orden Activa is about to launch into a Mexican ballad. What seemed like a shy and reserved audience suddenly transforms as the ...

Before Roberto Salazar II was arrested last year, he was by all outward appearances an upstanding active-duty Marine, serving as a radio operator at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, ...

Celebrate Cinco De Mayo with some classic Mexican narco ballads-think gangster rap with tubas and accordions. Mexican corridos are a kind of story-song reaching back to the ballads of medieval Spain, ...

Narcocorrido A Journey into the Misic of Drugs, Guns and Guerillas There were two policemen, driving in a pickup truck, and they started with the usual questions: Where was I going, how long had I ...

California police arrested “Narcocorrido” singer and Mexican reality star Larry Hernandez over a warrant charging him with kidnapping. The Mexican singer was arrested Sept. 25 at the Ontario Airport ...

The news of Mexico's bloody cartel war is reflected in a controversial folk-music genre called narcocorridos, or drug ballads. They're like journalism put to song — telling stories of drug lords, ...

What made Chalino Sánchez a legend in the Mexican music scene wasn’t that he was shot as he sang onstage. No, it was that he pulled out a gun and fired back. That moment, perhaps more so than any ...

NARCOCORRIDO: A Journey Into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas. By Elijah Wald. Rayo/HarperCollins, $24. JOURNALISTS have long been hooked on drug stories, and Elijah Wald has gotten his fix by ...