July 29, 2011, was the last day on the air for the original KEDA 1540 AM, Radio Jalapeño. For the last few months, the legendary conjunto station has resumed operations in a new building on West ...

On Friday, July 29, “Güero Polkas” (Ricky Dávila, the Wolfman Jack of San Antonio radio) signed off the air for the last time in 44 years. It was his last show and the beginning of the end of KEDA ...

Earlier this year, the Chronicle's Andrew Dansby wrote of legendary polka band Brave Combo: There exists no greater invitation to dance than the music of Brave Combo. The Texas mainstay has been ...

That's Güero Polkas-speak for 'nuff said (or conjunto is chicken soup for the soul). “Bajo sexto y acordeon para alegrar el corazon,” said KEDA's Ricky “Güero Polkas” Davila, touting the family-owned ...

In the past decade, Tejano has convulsed and contracted as it has been hit by the powerful rise of several popular subgenres. But like rock and country, the music has endured changing tastes and ...

Aug. 1 (UPI) --Texas conjunto music pioneer Flaco Jimenez, 86, died while surrounded by his family at one of his son's homes on Thursday night, his family announced. Flaco was born in San Antonio in ...

Aaron Salinas, the 2014 Grand Prize Winner the conjunto category in the ¡Encore Pachanga! Accordion Music Festival presented by the Museum of Street Culture. (Photo by Marcy Garriott, courtesy of ...

Conjunto musician Nick Villarreal is being remembered for the playful slang and sense of humor that infused his down-home, bilingual cumbia and polka novelty songs. Villarreal, who suffered from ...

At 86 years old, Johnny Degollado's still "The Montopolis Kid" and has the address to prove it. The historically Mexican thoroughfare is changing rapidly – culturally and demographically – but some ...