Aztlan Underground is a fusion band from Los Angeles.

Since early 1989, Aztlan Underground has played Rapcore.

Aztlan Underground has been cultivating a grass roots audience across the country, which has become a large and loyal underground following.

Aztlan Underground appeared on television on Culture Clash on Fox in 1993, was part of Breaking Out, a concert on pay per view in 1998, and was featured in the independent films Algun Dia and Frontierlandia.

Other parts of the world that Aztlan Underground have performed include Canada, Australia, and Venezuela.

Aztlan Underground were nominated for four Native American Music Award categories for the Nammys 2010.

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* Aztlan Underground, an activist rock en Español and hip hop group

Many popular Chicano and Chicano-led rock bands began to emerge during the mid and late 90s such as Downset, Spineshank, At the Drive-In, P. O. D., Fenix TX, Unloco, Union 13, Voodoo Glow Skulls, MxPx, Adema, Los Lonely Boys, Aztlan Underground, Ozomatli and The Latin Soul Syndicate.

One Mexica myth states that the people of Cholula, called Chololtecs, were descended from one of the seven Aztec tribes that migrated to central Mexico from their mythical homeland Aztlan.

12th century ), and because they spoke Nahuatl ( a Uto-Aztecan language ), it is believed that they descended from Natives that were said to have left Aztlan in present day southern Utah and northern Arizona.

The Mexica were the last of the Aztlan migrants to arrive in Central Mexico.

The Mexica story states that they came from a land called Aztlan, which is described as an island in the middle of a lake.

Rather it was an umbrella term used to refer to several ethnic groups, not all of them Nahuatl speaking, that claimed heritage from the mythic place of origin, Aztlan.

On his 1994 album Graciasland, Mexican-American rock and roll artist El Vez recorded " Aztlan " a version of Paul Simon's " Graceland " with lyrics such as, " For reasons I have explained / I'm not a part of Spain / I'm part of Aztlan.

People descended from Aztlan ( both in the contemporary U. S. and in Mexico ) use the Chicano ideology to create a platform for fighting for immigration reform and equality for all people.

* Chavez, John R. " The Chicano Image and the Myth of Aztlan Rediscovered ".

Some, like the California Free State, simply declared independence, or became de facto corporate subsidiaries like Aztlan ( the former Mexico ) to Aztechnology Megacorp.

In the myth the ancestors of the Mexica / Aztec came from a place in the north called Aztlan, the last of seven nahuatlacas ( Nahuatl-speaking tribes, from tlaca, " man ") to make the journey southward, hence their name " Azteca.

Retrieved August 30, 2012, form mean " people from Aztlan ", a mythological place for the Nahuatl-speaking culture of the time, and later adopted as the word to define the Mexica people.

In 2002, the band released their Mammoth Records debut, Good Morning Aztlan ; they released The Ride in 2004.

The meaning of the name Aztlan is uncertain.

** Quetzal: In a distant future on the colony world of Aztlan, Quetzal becomes the designated heir to Superman, who occupies a semi-divine position in this Aztec-like society.

In the summer of 1967 Acosta met Hunter S. Thompson, who would in 1971 write an article on Acosta and the injustice in the barrios of East L. A. for Rolling Stone titled " Strange Rumblings in Aztlan ".

Underground comics were almost never sold at news stands, but rather in such youth-oriented outlets as head shops and record stores, as well as by mail order.

Christian alternative music has its roots in the early 1980s, as the earliest efforts at Christian punk and new wave were recorded by artists like Andy McCarroll and Moral Support, Undercover, The 77s, Adam Again, Quickflight, Daniel Amos, Youth Choir ( later renamed The Choir ), Lifesavers Underground, Michael Knott, The Altar Boys, Breakfast with Amy, Steve Taylor, 4-4-1, David Edwards and Vector.

Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village's nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, notably besides Bob Dylan, there were Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bette Midler, The Lovin ' Spoonful, Simon & Garfunkel, Liza Minnelli, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, The Velvet Underground, The Kingston Trio, Carly Simon, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, and Nina Simone among others.

More than 50 were killed and 750 injured in three bombings on London Underground and another aboard a double decker bus near Russell Square in King's Cross.

Mills and former Parliament bass player ' Mad ' Mike Banks were founding members of Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance ( UR ), which embraced revolutionary rhetoric and only appeared in public dressed in ski masks and black combat suits.

The earlier lines of the present London Underground network were built by various private companies.

Following successful legal action against it, on 21 March 1982 London Buses fares were subsequently doubled and London Underground fares increased by 91 %.

In the second edition of Mage: The Ascension, Marauders were much more cogent and likely to operate in groups, with the Umbral Underground using the Umbra to infiltrate any location and wreak havoc with the aid of bygones.

Mars Direct was featured on a Discovery Channel programs Mars: The Next Frontier in which issues were discussed surrounding NASA funding of the project, and on Mars Underground, where the plan is discussed more in-depth.

The Wesleyan Methodist Connexion ( later became The Wesleyan Church ) and the Free Methodist Churches were formed by staunch abolitionists, and the Free Methodists were especially active in the Underground Railroad, which helped to free the slaves.

Among the leading acts were the Real Kids, founded by former Modern Lover John Felice ; Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band, whose frontman had been a member of the Velvet Underground for a few months in 1971 ; and Mickey Clean and the Mezz.

In the US in the early 1980s these bands were joined by the Paisley Underground movement, based in Los Angeles, with acts like Dream Syndicate, The Bangles and Rain Parade.

Mod era: Rickenbacker basses were seen as the stable bass of many 1970s / 1980s mod revival bands such as the Jam, with the notorious growl and clank sound featuring on hit records such as the Jam's " Eton Rifles " and " Going Underground ".

In several concerts, Art Garfunkel related that during the photo sessions for the album cover, several hundred pictures were taken that were unusable due to the " old familiar suggestion " on the wall in the background, which inspired the song " A Poem on the Underground Wall ".

Beck was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another — only the topology of the railway mattered.

Two of the band's tracks were included in the recent Rhino Nuggets Box set Children of Nuggets which compiles and documents the Paisley Underground and garage rock of the 1980s.

Those mentioned include Peter Hendy, who was at the time Head of Surface Transport division, and Tim O ' Toole, head of the Underground division, who were both awarded CBEs.

There were " Last Round on the Underground " parties on the night before the ban came into force.

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.

Even at the height of the Underground Railroad, fewer than 1, 000 slaves from all slave-holding states were able to escape each year ( just over 5, 000 court cases for escaped slaves recorded ), a quantity much smaller than the natural annual increase of the enslaved population.

Underground vaults and domes did not require buttress supports since they were held in place by earthen pits.