ELPASO

By Benjamin VillegasTranslated from the Spanish by Jay NodenForeword by Beto O'Rourke In a state rife with caricatures, Benjamin Villegas’ "anti-biography" explores the history of a Texas border-town punk band that is too good to be true. Publication Date: August 17, 2021 Paperback: 9781646050611 eBook:  9781646050628 Limited-edition "Rock and Lovets" Vinyl Bundle: Paperback edition of ELPASO and limited-edition vinyl Description In 2015, Benjamin Villegas traveled to Texas in an attempt to write the biography of a music group that could have changed the history of rock: ELPASO, a long-since defunct Chicano band from the U.S.-Mexico border with a punk sensibility and little left to remember it by but a suitcase of fanzines and one-off recordings. This is the story of one of the many bands that will never appear in rock n’ roll history books, but are at the core of the scene; a band that earned its stripes from sweaty fans and self-taught rock aficionados in basements, garages, and smal