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October 14, 2022 • The leaves are changing colors, miniature candies are lining the walls of drug stores and tías y tíos are warning about the demonic roots of Halloween. Finally, Espooky season has arrived.

Heavy Rotation: Summer Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing

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Heavy Rotation: Summer Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing

August 31, 2019 • On this month's Heavy Rotation, hear music from Raphael Saadiq, Nick Lowe, Veronica Swift and more.

Nick Lowe And Los Straitjackets On World Cafe

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Nick Lowe And Los Straitjackets On World Cafe

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August 9, 2018 • Los Straitjackets has been backing Lowe for the last few years of touring, so it was only natural that he and the band would record together for this session.

Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets On World Cafe

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Songs We Love: Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets, 'Christmas At The Airport'

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Songs We Love: Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets, 'Christmas At The Airport'

December 22, 2015 • Traveling these holidays? Let a veteran balladeer and his merry masked band be your support group through snowy flight delays.

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Los Straitjackets: Helping Out Bandmate Danny Amis

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Music Interviews

Los Straitjackets: Helping Out Bandmate Danny Amis

Fresh Air

June 3, 2011 • Los Straitjackets are a Nashville-based indie-rock band that's made their name performing surf-rock classics from behind Mexican wrestling masks. The band is about to hit the road to raise money for band member Danny Amis, who was recently diagnosed with multiple myeloma.

Los Straitjackets: Helping Out Bandmate Danny Amis

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Music Interviews

Rock en Espanol, with Wrestling Masks

Fresh Air

December 31, 2007 • A concert and conversation with Los Straitjackets, the Nashville-based indie-rock band that's made a name performing Spanish-language tributes to surf-rock classics — from behind Mexican wrestling masks.

Rock en Espanol, with Wrestling Masks

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'Rock en Espanol' with Sandy and Los Straitjackets

Fresh Air

November 22, 2007 • Celebrate Thanksgiving with rock 'n' roll hits from the 1950s and '60s — sung in Spanish. Rock en Espanol, from Big Sandy and Los Straitjackets, pays tribute to Mexican cover versions of American and British hits.

'Rock en Espanol' with Sandy and Los Straitjackets

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Los Straitjackets: Rock Behind the Masks

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June 27, 2007 • Los Straitjackets' new album marks a radical departure from the tight instrumental rock of its predecessors: On it, the band enlisted three vocalists to help perform classic rock 'n' roll songs in Spanish. Hear Los Straitjackets give an interview and in-studio performance.

Los Straitjackets in Studio on World Cafe - 06/27/2007

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Surf Music

January 11, 2000 • David Greenberger reviews the latest CD from the surf guitar band "Los Straitjackets". The band is from Nashville, and when they perform they like to wear Mexican wrestling masks, medallions, and matching black turtlenecks. But their music is distinctively surf music — with many original tunes, and some eclectic covers, like Louis Prima and the love theme from the film Titanic. The music is all about surprise, invention, and good taste. (3:30) Los Straitjackets latest disc is on the YepRoc Records label.

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