La Chinga was born in Vancouver, BC in 2012, although in reality it was conceived about a year earlier when bassist/vocalist Carl Spackler was surfing in SoCal and his chicano beach buddies kept hailing each other with the mysterious phrase. "La chingaaaaa!" We'll spare any sensitive unilingual anglophones the meaning; what matters is that Spackler's dream of a hard rock power trio built on erogenous funkadelic rhythms and a devotion to life's more sublime pleasures-chief among them: tequila-was now embodied inside a beautifully obscene two-word incantation. Drummer/vocalist Jay Solyom and guitarist/vocalist Ben Yardley-also a noted professor of theremin-were conscripted shortly after, both veterans of Vancouver's notoriously dead-end music scene, ... read more