Los Lobos

More than four decades into a career that’s taken them from the barrios of East Los Angeles to a 2009 gig at the White House, David Hidalgo and his bandmates sound no less juiced about exploring their fusion of Chicano culture and muscular roots rock than they did during the outfit’s early days—or during the late '80s, when Los Lobos’s version of “La Bamba” earned the band a No. 1 hit.