Rubén Guevara

Musician, Ruben and the Jets

Musician, Ruben and the Jets

Rubén Guevara on KCRW

The 1960s gave rise to the ‘Eastside sound,” which refers to new musical styles created by groups coming out of Boyle Heights and neighboring areas at that time.

LA’s Eastside sound blends R&B, doo-wop, Chicano rock, punk

The 1960s gave rise to the ‘Eastside sound,” which refers to new musical styles created by groups coming out of Boyle Heights and neighboring areas at that time.

from Greater LA

More from KCRW

Congrats to Gusto Bread, Strong Water, Tobin Shea of Redbird, Daniel Castillo of Heritage Barbeque, and Jon Yao of Kato.

from Good Food

At Kingdom Dim Sum in East Hollywood, chefs Man Mo and Tony He are best friends. Mo’s son founded the restaurant to give his retirement-age dad something to do.

from KCRW Features

The first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival drew hundreds of thousands of people to the desert in Indio. Did the pop culture extravaganza live up to the hype?

from KCRW Features

UCLA women are the underdogs in their NCAA Final Four matchup against the University of Connecticut. Will their size advantage help secure a win?

from KCRW Features

For millions of people, the soundtrack of their lives is curated by Spotify.

from The Sam Sanders Show

With her debut novel Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters made history as the first openly trans writer to be published by a major publishing house.

from The Sam Sanders Show

Invasive plants are overrunning the Santa Monica Mountains, making fires more destructive and more frequent. Thus, conservationists are trying to grow more native species.

from KCRW Features

Fanatic! I hope you had a tremendous music-filled week.

from Henry Rollins

Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe, was once spoken by tens of thousands of Jews in Los Angeles before largely fading away. Now it’s making a comeback.

from KCRW Features