I found a couple of reviews of Carne Cruda's "Oakland's Tight" album, something that I poured an incredible amount of effort into. I'm glad that some people liked it: http://www.examiner.com/music-in-los-angeles/schwindy-s-indie-music-spotlight-carne-cruda-review Carne Cruda catches the attention before you even hear the music. Just have a look at that cover of Oakland's Tight (Round Whirled Records, 2010). And if you think that's interesting, you should see the inside cover photo which shows all the …

We will be throwing a big CD Release Party and Lowrider Car Show for the release of Songs from La Mission on Halloween, October 31st, 2010. This will be a great San Francisco Halloween event. $20 gets you a free CD with entrance, La MiSSion Band will be rocking live, and then Salsa dancing with Mambo Street, plus lowrider cars and more. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103816053015816 is the facebook event link, see you there.

I composed the music for a new documentary film for the Freedom Archives, the film is called "COINTELPRO 101" and it will premier Sunday, October 10th at 4pm and 7pm at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco. Here is the trailer: I composed all the music for this film, there will be a discussion afterwards with special guests as well. More information about this film can be found at: http://www.freedomarchives.org/Cointelpro.html

Our record label Round Whirled Records just put out a new CD, Songs from La Mission , and it's selling like hotcakes. The CD has 12 new Latin-oldies style lowrider classics perfect for cruisin' the low-lows. We've heard lots of comments like "how come I never heard that Mary Wells B-side?" and "is that Carlos Santana or Ralphie Pagan playing guitar in that one scene.." Well, they are all original songs, except for our version of William Devaugn's "Just Be Thankful," that we recorded for the movie La …

We just put up the Songs from La Mission CD on the Round Whirled Records website, if you want to hear the music we did for the movie La Mission starring Benjamin Bratt you can here them here: http://www.roundwhirledrecords.com/lamission.cfm