You know it would take something spectacular for me to feature rock guitars here. And here it is: Los Abandoned with their take on the second-generation immigrant experience.
It also features a shout-out to La Raza, for which I will love them forever.
The lyrics are about the peculiar experience of immigration: you drop a social class, and miss everything you took for granted. But it's not a sob story - it's ebullient, irrepressible and beautiful. And their dual heritage (check that Spanglish) and freedom to be rock stars is part of the American Dream that their parents sought so earnestly.
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