Paste Magazine| February-March 2006
By Leslie Guttman
Los Jornaleros Del Norte, a Los Angeles band of day laborers, sings about life on the other side, where to stand on a US street corner is to be invisible. I first met them in San Francisco on a Saturday night in the Mission District, at a day-laborer convention held in a long, narrow, incredibly stuffy room. Up front stood the band, composed that evening of six men – two electric guitarists, a drummer, a conga player, a keyboardist and an accordion player. They opened their set with an extra-crispy Tex-Mex hip-hop song: