Named for the forgotten trolley tracks that run like veins underneath thick tar throughout Los Angeles, The Tracks play furiously fast music that flies in the face of a genre that seems to have lost its way. Their music recalls the defiant optimism of working-class bands that came before them and their sound reminds us to find the joy in dancing to loud music as the ultimate form of rebellion.

Frontman Venancio Bermudez, bassist Felipe Contreras, drummer Jimmy Conde, and guitarist Juan Santana met at Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights and united over their shared love of rock & roll. Their upcoming album “Paredón Blanco” is dedicated to the place they grew up and the music that raised them. Reclaiming a sound that Chicanos have been historically excluded from, when you see The Tracks perform live, all adversity disappears in their ability to unite and empower an audience.

Produced by Lewis Pesacov, the album embraces rawness, complexity, and the enormous reality that making music is perhaps their only way to survive.