In the summer of 2017, Chicano Batman played a free show at One Colorado, the shopping complex in the heart of Old Pasadena, as part of KCRW’s Summer Nights concert series. The band had just released “Freedom Is Free,” its third album. Organizers had anticipated a large turnout for the event and warned fans for a week that they expected to reach capacity early. The place was packed an hour before the band hit the stage. Fans arriving late, many of them Latino, climbed over and crawled under... Read this story
