New Generation Of Mexican Singers Embrace Corridos

KQED's The California Report

Peso Pluma’s new album Éxodo just dropped and it hit the Billboard 200. The artist sings corridos, a type of Mexican traditional music that was once relegated to Spanish language radio. But today, a younger generation of artists like Peso Pluma and Xavi are bringing the music into the mainstream. And California's demographic change is helping to fuel this movement.

Reporter: Aisha Natalia Wallace-Palomares, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

The U.S. Postal Service has until Friday to put forward a plan to reopen two rural California post offices. For over two years, the town of Niland in Northern Imperial County has been cut off from daily access to the mail, after the local post office burned down in 2022.

Reporter: Kori Suzuki, KPBS

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