July 29, 2011, was the last day on the air for the original KEDA 1540 AM, Radio Jalapeño. For the last few months, the legendary conjunto station has resumed operations in a new building on West ...

On Friday, July 29, “Güero Polkas” (Ricky Dávila, the Wolfman Jack of San Antonio radio) signed off the air for the last time in 44 years. It was his last show and the beginning of the end of KEDA ...

Earlier this year, the Chronicle's Andrew Dansby wrote of legendary polka band Brave Combo: There exists no greater invitation to dance than the music of Brave Combo. The Texas mainstay has been ...

SAN BENITO, Texas — The southern subtropics of Texas, known as the Rio Grande Valley, is a geographically and culturally distinct part of the Lone Star State — as much Mexican as Texan — with its own ...

That's Güero Polkas-speak for 'nuff said (or conjunto is chicken soup for the soul). “Bajo sexto y acordeon para alegrar el corazon,” said KEDA's Ricky “Güero Polkas” Davila, touting the family-owned ...

Aaron Salinas, the 2014 Grand Prize Winner the conjunto category in the ¡Encore Pachanga! Accordion Music Festival presented by the Museum of Street Culture. (Photo by Marcy Garriott, courtesy of ...

SAN ANTONIO — Jesus “Chucho” Perales, a pioneering rock 'n' roll musician whose talent took him from rough West Side conjunto bars to “American Bandstand” and the Las Vegas Strip, died at home Sunday ...

At 86 years old, Johnny Degollado's still "The Montopolis Kid" and has the address to prove it. The historically Mexican thoroughfare is changing rapidly – culturally and demographically – but some ...

Born into a family of conjunto pioneers, Flaco Jimenez took his Hoehner three-row button accordion from San Antonio to the stages of the world, becoming the music's greatest ambassador. Jimenez died ...

Part of Texas has its own soundtrack: conjunto music. And a new generation of musicians is taking it up. (Story aired on All Things Considered on July, 10, 2023.) With the soundtrack for your morning, ...