Pistoleros documentary looks at '90s Tempe band | Features
Unless you were there at the time, one might not realize how exciting it was to be a music lover in Tempe in the ’90s.
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Unless you were there at the time, one might not realize how exciting it was to be a music lover in Tempe in the ’90s.
Lawrence Zubia's battle with addiction and strained relationship with his brother make "Pistoleros: Death, Drugs and Rock n' Roll" a powerful film.
"Let's Do It Again" by British DJ Jamie xx has given new life to a classic soul recording cut by Bobby Barnes for Phoenix label Raina Records in 1977.
Remembering Lawrence Zubia of Pistoleros, an Arizona music legend Ed Masley, Arizona Republic Lawrence Zubia, the charismatic frontman whose voice and presence helped make Pistoleros major players on the Mill Avenue scene that made Tempe a musical hotbed in the '90s, died the morning of Saturday, Dec. 19. Zubia, 56, was taken to the hospital Friday afternoon with pneumonia. As Mark Zubia, the brother with whom he'd written songs since they were teens, explained, "He'd been recovering from surgery on his pancreas. He got the surgery in I believe April. And it just took too ...