Pistolera (band)

Pistolera (Spanish for "female gunslinger") is a music group that was founded in 2005 in Brooklyn, New York, by Mexican-American songwriter Sandra Lilia Velásquez, Maria Elena, Inca B. Satz, and Ani Cordero.

To date, they have released three albums: Siempre Hay Salida (2006), En Este Camino (2008), and El Desierto Y La Ciudad (2011), and have performed numerous shows in the United States and abroad.

That same year, they opened for Los Lobos at Massey Hall in Toronto and at The Birchmere in the United States as part of the Mexican Tourism Board and National Geographic Traveler Magazine Series.

The album was featured on NPR's First Listen for which Felix Contreras wrote, "…inventive sense of arrangement, combined with great songwriting, elevates El Desierto y la Ciudad above and beyond its traditional source material.

In 2011, the band was invited to perform a Tiny Desk Concert at the NPR office in Washington, D.C. Their song, "Nuevos Ojos", was featured in Season 4, Episode 12 of the AMC TV show Breaking Bad.