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ElVez
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Member Since	3/5/2006
Band Website	http://www.elvez.net/
Band Members	Merry Mex-mas! What happens when a squadron of guitar-wielding Lucha Libra heroes on their way to rescue Santa Claus get lost on their way to North Pole and end up wandering the strees of East LA? Well, a tree trimming party hosted by none other than the King of Rock y Roll, of course. Awakening after a 3 day bender with a tinsel hangover, El Vez and Los Straitjackets emerged with a vision for a Holiday party that will add a little tequila to your Egg Nog and swaddle the Baby Jesus in a fashionable Mexican blanket. They have met before (most notably to record a Spanish language version of “King Creole” for the Straitjackets’ 2001 vocal album “Sing Along With Los Straitjackets), they usually pass each other in low-rider sleighs on the interstate while separately bringing their own Christmas Tours to the masses. This year—the two will collaborate an an all new show entitled ¡Viva Christmas!. Viva will juxtapose the surf-twang holiday instrumentals of Los Straitjackets (performed of course in their traditional Lucha Libre masks) with all the holiday magic of El Vez’ Christmas-themed material. Los Straitjackets will serve as the band for El Vez, and the lovely El Vettes will provide their trademark vocals and choreography. Los Straitjackets will issue a long awaited 10 song followup to their popular Christmas album Tis The Season for Los Straitjackets in November that will be entitled Yuletide Beat. The band has created 10 all new rock & roll arrangements of traditional Holiday carols, that'll have you rockin' through December, and closing out 2009 with a romantic slowdance to 'Sould'D Lang Syne." The band rides a desert surf wave on "We Three Kings," takes "Joy to the World" to Memphis, and takes "Jingle Bells" on a Bakersfield Sleigh Ride. Not to mention entering uncharted territory with a classic rock rendition of "Jolly Old Saint Nick" (retitled Groovy Old Saint Nick for 1971 ambience). This limited edition, numbered pressing of 1000 CDs & 1000 Vinyl comes in a lovingly printed and letterpressed package by DC area poster artist El Jefe, and will also be available for download via all major download sites. Stay tuned for pre-order information! ¡Viva Christmas! Tour Dates 12-01-09 Atlanta GA The Earl 12-02-09 Carrboro NC Cat's Cradle 12-03-09 Washington DC 9:30 Club 12-04-09 Philadelphia PA World Cafe Live 12-05-09 New York NY Bowery Ballroom 12-06-09 Boston MA Paradise Rock Club 12-08-09 Toronto ON Lee's Palace 12-09-09 Cleveland OH Beachland Ballroom 12-10-09 Pontiac MI Crofoot Ballroom 12-11-09 Chicago IL Double Door 12-12-09 Minneapolis MN First Avenue 12-14-09 Seattle WA Tractor Tavern 12-15-09 Portland OR Dante's 12-17-09 San Francisco CA The Independent 12-18-09 W. Hollywood CA Troubadour 12-19-09 San Diego CA Casbah ElVez on The Vibro Champs' Van Somewhere in Tejas. Circa: Fall of 1995.
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Sounds Like	The EL Vez Discography El Vez the Mexican Elvis 45 single Sympathy for the Record Industry SFTRI 111 Esta Bien Mamacita - En El Barrio El Vez Calling 45 single SFTRI 160 Maria's the Name - Lordy Miss Lupe Not Hispanic LP album Munster Records MR 024 Esta Bien Mamacita - En El Barrio (video mix) - Maria's the Name (of his latest flame)(re-mix) - Lordy Miss Lupe (slide mix) - Esta Bien (impersonators sing-along mix) - Samba para Elvis - Black Magic Woman - Never been to Spain How Great Thou Art:Greatest Hits of El Vez CD album SFTRI 199 Esta Bien Mamacita - En El Barrio - Maria's the Name (of his latest flame) - Lordy Miss Lupe - Esta Bien (impersonators sing-along mix) - Samba para Elvis - Black Magic Woman Woman - Never been to Spain - How Great Thou Art Fun in Espaol Spanish Language CD SFTRI 234-S Esta Bien Mamacita - En El Barrio - Mara's se llama (su nueva flama) - Seor Lupe - Esta Bien (otra vez) - Samba para Elvis - Nunca fui a Espaa - Mujer de Mgia Negra - Que Magnfico T Eres El Vez with Blackbird 45 single SFTRI 315 Cinco de Mayo - Blackbird de Mayo Graciasland CD album SFTRI 302 La Negra - Hurraches Azules - Aztlan - Chicanisma - Go Zapata Go! - It's now or never - Cinco de Mayo(w/Blackbird) - Gypsy Queen - Trouble - The Cuauhtemoc Walk - Cesar Chavez - Mexican Radio - Safe (Baby lets play Safe) - Immigration Time 10" Santa Picture Disc Erica Records Mamacita Donde Esta Santa Claus? (Disco Version) Merry MeX-mas X-mas CD Sympathy for the Record Industry SFTRI 350 Feliz Navidad - Santa Claus is sometimes Brown - Mamacita donde esta Santa Claus? - Oranges for Christmas - Sleigh Ride - Christmas Wish - Poncho Claus - Christmas Time is here - Brown Christmas Like a Hole in the Head El Vez face picture disc 4 tune EP, 10" SFTRI Go Zapatistas! - Andale Zapatistas! - The Cuauhtemoc Walk - Fever-live in Denmark El Vez is Alive! Live at Roskilde-Denmark Munster Records LP+CD MR CD 081 Live! - La Cucaracha - Esta bien Mamacita - Chihuahua - This was the story of my life- Caliente Amor - Quetzalcoatal - Maria's the Name (of his latest flame) - Intro into East LA (Heroin) - En El Barrio - Trouble - Fever - Hurraches Azules - Dixie-intro - Immigration Time - 2001(a costume chnage) S, I'm a Lowrider - Wooly Bully Special Spanish Tour 1996 El Vez The Mexican Elvis Munster Records MRCD 099 Saludos de El Vez - Never Been to Spain - Maria se llama - Chicanisma - Fever Never been to Spain (Until Now!) compilation + unreleased Munster Records MR CD 101 GI Ay, Ay ! Blues Semaphore 51002 & Big Pop 0910-2 (extra track) Say it Loud! I'm Brown and I'm Proud! - Misery Tren - Frida's Life of Pain - Malinche - Soy un Pocho - Taking Care of Business - The Arm of Obregon - Mexican American Triology - JC Lowerider Superstar - Viva La Raza TCB 5" single Sympathy for the Record Industry SFTRI 452 20th Century Boy - Taking Care of Business A Lad from Spain? 10" EP Sympathy for the Record Industry SFTRI 452 20th Century Boy - Taking Care of Business - Chihuahua - S Slowrider - (Rock and Roll Suicide) If I can Dream - TCB Reprise Son of A Lad From Spain? Sympathy for the Record Industry SFTRI 595 Taking Care of Business - Say It Loud! I'm Brown and I'm Proud - Chihuahua - 1-800-KING-MEX - Frida's Life of Pain - Arm of Obregon - La Malinche - (Baby Let's Play) Safe - S, I'm a Lowrider - Immigration Time Clinton PSA '93 - Say It Loud! I'm Brown and I'm Proud - Lady Stardust - Rock and Roll Suicide / If I Can Dream - TCB Reprise Pure Aztec Gold El Groover - Say it Loud! I'm Brown and I'm proud (adult mix) Cesar Chavez - Cinco de Mayo - En el Barrio - Esta Bien Mamacita - It's Now or Never - Immigration Time - La Negra - Trouble - Rock and Roll Suicide / If I Can Dream - Soy un Pocho - Aztlan - Samba Pa Ti - Go Zapatistas! - La Malinche - Lady Stardust NoElVezS Poptones MC5010CD Feliz Navidad - Santa Claus is Sometimes Brown - Sleigh Ride - Christmas Wish - Christmastime is Here - Mamacita Donde Esta? (kid voice version) - Oranges for Christmas - Brown Christmas - Feliz Navidad (live) - Mamacita Donde Esta Santa Claus? (disco track) - En El Barrio (video) Feliz Navidad Feliz Navidad - Oral (I JSBX) El Vez Live K'N'K Records Blue Xmas (live) Boxing With God Sympathy for the Record Industry SFTRI 676 Oral - and the preacher said - Rubbernecking - Quetzalcoatal - Mexican Can - Can You Kali? - Mater Dolores - Mayan Saucers - La Vida Loca - Sor Juana de la Cruz - Ave Maria - Diego - Lilly of the Valley - Just Want to See His Face - Lust for Christ - If He Ever Comes Now - Walk a Mile in My Shoes El Vez Iggy Tribute 45 Houston Party Records HPR-v033 Maria's The Name (No Fun) - Now I Wanna Be Santa Claus Sno-Way Jos Graciasland Records Studio tracks - Little Drummer Boy - The Dreydel Song - La Piata - En El Barrio (at xmas time) - Cool Yule (featuring the Elvettes) - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday Live tracks - Blue Christmas - Lordy Miss Lupe/Little Latin - Lupe Lu - Now I Wanna be Santa Claus - Brown Christmas Endless Revolution GI Ay, Ay ! Blues Service Re-issue Graciasland Records - GR002 Say it Loud! I'm Brown and I'm Proud! - Misery Tren - The Arm of Obregon - Power to the People - Cesar Chavez 96 - Frida's Life of Pain - Soy un Pocho - El Groover - Malinche - Taking Care of Business - Viva La Raza - Mexican American Triology - Whip - JC Lowrider Superstar - (Rock and Roll Suicide) If I Can Dream plus enhanced cd music: Caliente Amor (full length version) - Quetzalcoatal (version no.27) - Trying to Get to You - Andale Zapatistas! video: Say it Loud! I'm Brown and I'm Proud! - Go! Zapatistas Go! photos, liner notes and lyrics
Record Label	SYMPATHY FOR THE RECORD INDUSTRY
Type of Label	Major

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About ElVez

Because Elvis has become an international institution that can communicate across national and cultural boundaries, it comes as no surprise that El Vez the self proclaimed "Mexican Elvis" has come along. El Vez, aka Robert Lopez, has been kicking around the L.A. underground music scene for nearly twenty years. He first appeared in the early L.A. punk band the Zeros and then played in Catholic Discipline (which also spawned lesbian folk singer Phranc). While his records are excellent documents of the El Vez phenomenon, the only way to get the full El Vez experience is to see his live shows, which feature his band the Spiders from Memphis and the lovely El Vettes, cleverly named Priscilita, Gladysita, Lisa Maria, and Que Linda Thompson. The best cultural reference points to help describe an El Vez show are the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, a Tom Jones Las Vegas gig, the LSD episode of Dragnet, and Elvis Presley's '68 comeback special. Listening to El Vez is akin to hearing the live-band equivalent of sampling. An audience on any given night can be treated to half a dozen costume changes and might hear bits and pieces of at least 200 songs, not all of them Elvis recordings. For instance, one of his medleys featured "You Ain't Nothing But a Chihuahua" and an instrumental version of the Beastie Boys' "Gratitude," mixed in with the lead guitar riff from Santana's "Black Magic Woman" laid underneath Rod Stewart's "Maggie May," which melded into "En el Barrio" (aka "In the Ghetto") and finished up with the mandolin line that concludes R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion."

Despite his use of humor, El Vez cannot be written off as a post-modern joke. His lyrics (many times rewrites of Elvis recordings or other popular songs) are very political and pro-Latino. Much like Rage Against the Machine, his songs are littered with references to the Zapatistas and other Mexican revolutionaries. Unlike the above-mentioned band, he does not beat the audience over the head with didactic polemics and testosterone-fueled monster chords. Instead, he relies on the obvious play on words ("Say It Loud, I'm Brown and I'm Proud" and "Misery Tren") and clever social satire (at the climax of "Immigration Time" sung to the tune of "Suspicious Minds" he shouts, "I've got my green card...I want my gold card!"). Based in East Los Angeles, he is involved in anti-gang programs and other community outreach programs a refreshing reminder that one doesn't have to lose his or her sense of humor to remain an activist.

Biography by Kembrew McLeod

SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL WITH THE MEXICAN ELVIS

Some Elvis fans do crazy things, like light candles on the anniversary of his death. Others do even crazier things, like drive to Graceland and stock up on Elvis shampoo, floater pens and and refrigerator magnets. But it is the rare and supremely loopy fan who actually becomes Elvis. In the realm of Elvis impersonators, El Vez, the Mexican Elvis, is king.

El Vez is a multiethnic, multicultural, multicostumed revolutionary who reinvents American rock from a socialist Hispanic perspective. "G.I. Ay, Ay! Blues" (Big Pop Records) is his latest manifesto, following "Graciasland" and "A Merry Mex-Mus." "Misery Tren" remakes "Mystery Train" via Pancho Villa, los zapatistas and an edict to "destroy los capitalistas." "Say It Loud! I'm Brown and I'm Proud!" filters James Brown through a California immigration nightmare. "I've worked all day with my hands and my feet / And all the time we're running from some governor named Pete." Throughout, a message of hope and unity rises to the fore. So love me tender, so love me long," sings El Vez. "Why can't we all just get along?"

Nutty Los Angeleno: Seven years ago, El Vez was Robert Lopez, an averagely nutty Los Angeleno working at an art gallery. He decided to mount an all-Elvis show; by the end of it, he was plotting a trip to Memphis and scribbling Hispanic lyrics to beloved old chestnuts. Lopez was enchanted by the world of wanna-bes. "In Memphis there was a place called Bob's Bad Vapors," he says. "From 3 in the afternoon until 3 in the morning you could see an Elvis every 20 minutes." Today the El Vez show is an extravaganza with pompom-toting singers (Lisa Maria and Prescillita), a rainbow of sequins, camouflage bell-bottoms with gold lame flares, pro-tolerance patter and a band that moves from "La Cucaracha" to "Wipeout" at the drop of a sombrero.

Lopez knows this is silly. But as a second-generation Mexican-American raised in Chula Vista, Calif., he has a right to be culturally confused. "In the '60s, my uncles had the continental slacks and slicked-back hair," he says. "They looked like Elvis in 'Fun in Acapulco.' I remember as a kid thinking, 'Elvis must be Latino, like us'." But Lopez was encouraged by his parents to assimulate. He lived in a white neighborhood and didn't hear Spanish until high school. "The whole trip to El Vez-ness was a search for identity," he says. "How brown can I be? What are my roots?" Lopez believes that beyond the kitsch factor, El Vez has potential to spread good will. He's tapped into an American ideal: that anyone can be Elvis, no matter which race, creed or jumpsuit size he is. "When you come to an El Vez show, you walk away proud to be a Mexican," he says. "Even when you're not."

By Karen Schoemer

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jim	Sep 17 2009 8:53 PM
Brendan Arthur Ring	Sep 17 2009 8:37 PM "Graffiti Cone"
GRIFO TOVAR AL MICTLAN	Sep 17 2009 8:37 PM ¡¡¡¡YOU ARE THE BEST¡¡¡¡ HELLO TO NEZAHUALCOYOTL,MEXICO CITY
THE DEEP ONES	Sep 17 2009 8:36 PM Congratulations on the award, and thank you for the lovely punk rock music, it means a lot to me (and the world). Love, DD
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Glass Kitten Productions- is looking for bands!	Sep 17 2009 8:36 PM I’m also looking for bands for these shows: 9/1 Friar Tucks- Pomona: 9 and 1am 9/2 The Blue Café- Long Beach: 10 and 11PM 9/2 The Blue Café- Huntington Beach: 10 and 11PM 9/3 The Blue Café- Long Beach: 8 PM 9/3 The Blue Café – Huntington Beach: 8 and 10PM 9/8 Friar Tucks- Pomona 9,10,11,12,1 9/9 The Blue Café- Long Beach: 11Pm 9/22 Friar Tucks Pomona: 10,11,12,1
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Labretta Suede and The Motel 6	Sep 17 2009 8:36 PM Meow, Labretta Suede and The Motel 6 play the Viper Room as part of the High Voltage Magazine show case night. Sunday 16th Aug at 8pm. Oh yeah, shake, shake, pow-pow shake! xxx
Prof. Trash Online Now!	Sep 17 2009 8:36 PM
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Boris	Jul 19 2009 8:42 AM Holmes, dig it...The Greatest Elvis impersonating bulldog in the country...
Little Miss Tammy Smith	Jul 19 2009 8:42 AM Looks like you had a BLAST on the 4th as well, my friend! Tell that girl around your waist to gimme that damn jumpsuit! NOW!!!!!
RECORDS AD NAUSEAM	Jul 19 2009 8:42 AM FUCK THAT CHEAP WIMP SAMMY SERIOUS!!!! YOU GUYS ARE #1,SEE YA TONITE
G A I L E	Jul 5 2009 8:04 PM Hello there. It was a pleasure to see you perform in Greensboro years ago!
DD's Norfolk Film Productions	Jul 5 2009 5:31 PM hi thanks for coming onto our website good to have you on board all the best dave and denise
Kay Sera	Jul 5 2009 5:26 PM
LUSHera!	Jul 2 2009 7:46 PM Aiyeeeeeee! Luv you ElVez, un chingo! God bless, and have a great 4th ofJuly!
Ali Seftali PSYC HO ENGIN IS BACK MIXTAPE!!! MTZ Online Now!	Jul 1 2009 4:33 PM huhuuu alles flotti karotti? ich wollt mich nochmal bei allen bedanken für 15.291 downloads meines zweiten mixtapes :) ich habe dafür einen neuen track upgeloaded hoffe der gefällt dir. würde mich über kommentare freuen... hadi schönen tag noch;) cucu
Velvet Elvis™	Jun 28 2009 9:30 PM Thank you. Thankyouverymuch for the add!
Garry-Lewis JamesOsterberg	Jun 28 2009 3:23 PM I LOVE YOU EL VEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
クラーク内藤	Jun 21 2009 3:49 AM [ENGLISH] Hi, my name is Clark Naito. I'm living in Tokyo, but I've never gone to London. and you? I make wonderful music everyday. Night&Day. Sometimes human makes mistakes, but Ihope you'll listen to my music. Stay tune to me. 「日本語」こんにちは、私の名前はクラーク内藤です。私は東京に住んでいますが、ロンドンには行った事がありません。貴方はどうですか？私は毎日楽しくてカッコイイ音楽を作っています。昼夜。時として人は過ちを犯してしまうことがあるけれど、私の音楽を聴いていただければ幸いです。俺にステイチューン。 http://www.myspace.com/clasun
Labretta Suede and The Motel 6	Jun 12 2009 2:10 AM Ola! Hi Elvez, we will be in LA 13th to 15th Aug and we hope to catch a show. Via Condious.
Darla Teagarden Photography	Jun 11 2009 2:47 AM ALWAYS, DARLA TEAGARDEN
Horst With No Name	Jun 9 2009 1:05 PM
AZUL SINNED & L.A.B	Jun 8 2009 7:13 AM Such a pleasure to meet you at Burlesque Hall of Fame! Fabulous as always! xo

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