LOS YESTERDAYS
Los Yesterdays are a Chicano soul band from Los Angeles based around the creative collaboration between Gabriel Rowland and Victor Benavides. They began working together when Rowland - a drummer by trade, then creaky and exhausted from waking up at dawn to work construction - decided to channel those struggles into song. He contacted Benavides, a former bandmate of Rowland’s deceased brother, to record the soul ballads that Southland Chicanos call “oldies,” the best of Black American sweet soul music from the 60s, 70s and early 80s. The Chicano obsession with soul music began in the mid 1950s, when young Chicanos, many of whom were first-generation immigrants raised on their parents’ mariachi and norteño records, were searching for a music of their own. They began in the smog-spitting gas guzzlers and carpeted living rooms and shoe-melting playground blacktop of the 1970s.
THE JACK MOVES
The Jack Moves, traveling soul troubadors that they are, packed up their songs and took them down to Adan Jodorowsky's studio in Mexico City. The Newark New Jersey duo, in their relentless travels through the new millennium, have always had one eye in the rear view mirror. At times slow and low with the raw emotion of 70s soul, other times finessing curves with the polish of 80s R&B hooks, and then perhaps pulling up to the poppingest joint with the swagger of 90s street bounce -- but once they got going, their journey was always fearlessly futuristic free soul. Across three albums -- the self titled, The Jack Moves (2015), Free Money (2018), and Cruiserweight (2022) -- Zee Desmondes and Teddy Powell created a musical itinerary you can almost taste, where skate culture and classic slow jams not only collide but make fresh and sweet potions for the soul. Now, with Love Machine, they've taken those ingredients further into that blender, blurring the line between what was and what's next and making funky soul marmalade and sweet electric jelly.
THE SILVERTONE
The Silvertone is a psychedelic Chicano soul band emerging from the heart of Southern California, blending vintage soul, swirling psychedelia, and deep-rooted Latin influences. With hypnotic grooves, heartfelt vocals, and dreamy instrumentation, they channel the rich traditions of classic Chicano soul while pushing the boundaries of modern sound.