After spending the past several years backing power pop-smith Nick Lowe, Luchador-masked instrumentalists Los Straitjackets have surfed back to the fore with Somos Los Straitjackets, their first ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The tour is advertised as “NRBQ vs. Los Straitjackets,” but Los Straitjackets guitarist Eddie Angel says there’s no animosity and decades of admiration between the two bands on the bill. That’s not to ...

It speaks to good karma and the chameleon-like career of iconic songwriter, musician and producer Nick Lowe that, at age 70, his next musical move is not performing acoustic and alone. He is not going ...

But Los Straitjackets are a proud throwback, even as they continue to turn out rip-roaring contemporary rock of their own. The quartet–who are not Mexican but are famed for performing in classic ...

Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets may be playing for thousands this month as the special guest opening act for longtime friend Elvis Costello. But it’s unlikely those shows will be anything close to ...

Guitarist Danny Amis doesn’t go into a lot of detail explaining why his band wears Mexican wrestling masks while they play instrumental surf music. “They look cool,” Amis replies to most who ask. Amis ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 24: Nick Lowe of Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets performs at The London Palladium on September 24, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Robin Little/Redferns) If there is a ...

It was two, two shows in one. Maybe you came to see British songwriter, producer and performer extraordinaire Nick Lowe, late of pub rock stalwarts Brinsley Schwarz and Rockpile, and longtime ...

PURE POP FOR LOWE PEOPLE: Mexican wrestling mask-clad foursome Los Straitjackets apply muscular instrumental power to backing singer-songwriter Nick Lowe, far right, during his Quality Rock & Roll ...

Having recently wrapped up his tour with his old friend Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe is back home in England for a few shows and will be in Japan in October. He’ll be back in the US in November, though, ...