Tonight! Thursday, August 17, 2006 ¡roc en español!
Homegrown ¡roc en español!
Tonight on the world famous Sunset Strip
On the Rox presents:
RASCUACHE, Fatima and Lik.
9009 Sunset Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90069
8pm. 21 and over. $8.
Mention the UCLA School of Law and recieve a free Rascuache CD and pin!
Rascuache is a homegrown Los Angeles roc en español band that's been rockin' the scene since 2000.
Lead Singer Adam Benitez was born at UCLA, graduated with a BA in Psychology from UCLA and currently works as the Bindery Supervisor for the UCLA Law Library; while also completing his MLIS at the UCLA GSE&IS. The bassist, David Benitez, Adam's younger brother, who also graduted from UCLA with a BA in Psych, works at the UCLA Biomedical Library. They, along with friends Alejandro Najarro and Cirilo Flores, are RASCUACHE.
What is RASCUACHE?
Well, it's hard to define, but that's part of the definition. It's thrift and utility with a rustic down home sensibility, or at least that's the way it's defined academically. However, when Adam presented the name of his band to his father, his father responded, "tarugo, why would you want to name your band that?" In common use, it meant bad, poor...basically, ghetto.
Well, there's ghetto bad (i.e. poor, low-budge) and there's ghetto fab (i.e. Krunk and gold teeth). So, either way, it seemed to work, and Rascuache it was.
But, you're probably still asking yourself, what is Rascuache? Well, why not come by tonight to experience some native Angelino culture and find out for yourself.
And, if you can't make it tonight, you can always sheck it out at http://www.myspace.com/rascuac where download songs for gratis...