Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chicano barrio of East Los Angeles, the gap between American music and its Mexican roots has been inspirational. The band reached a commercial apex with 1987's La Bamba, an international hit that was elevated beyond pop predictability by its intricate acoustic coda. That flourish of integrity was no fluke. Los Lobos' new album, Kiko, blends rock, jazz and Mexican folk styles with authority and panache; David Hidalgo's lambent vocals transport songs about hardship and redemption to a numinous state. More than a mere blending of two vibrant traditions, Kiko forges a new American sound...
Junior outfielder Mike Hill agrees. "They weren't a particularly dominating team. We're out to prove that the two games earlier in the year were a fluke...
What you might have seen at Lollapalooza in the summer of 1991 was no fluke. Ice-T, infamous hard-core rapper from south central Los Angler stole the show because his hardcore band, Body Count, kicked butt. They were the best act on the whole tour...
...their action (or non-action), they are saying that Harvard's success was a fluke, and that it didn't really matter. For that, conference officials should be ashamed of themselves...
...addition to the group's own performances, the album features some memorable posse cuts. Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called Quest appears on the song "La Schmoove," showing that his solid work on The Low End Theory was not a fluke. And Dres from Black Sheep makes a cameo on "Check It Out." --Daniel J. Sharfstein...