Funtura.

If you say I'm a Latin X rock band, immediately you've shrunk in the world of possibilities that you exist within.

When you do that, you definitely play with the media and you get into spaces you would not necessarily get into it if you say you're a Latino rock band.

It has nothing with identity either. It has everything to do with the music business.

From Funtura media, it's Latino USA, I'm Mariano Rosa. Today, one of our how I made it segments with LA-based group Chicano Batman.

Chicano Batman is a band made up of four Latinos from Southern California whose singular sound mixes psychedelic rock sensibilities with a host of vintage references.

The LA-based group has been playing together for around a decade and has been highly acclaimed for their eclectic sound but also their throwback style.

Opening for acts like Jack White, Vampire Weekend, and Alabama Shakes. The band is managed to garner attention on some of the biggest stages across the globe, including spots at Coachella in 2015 and 2017.

Their latest album, Invisible People, takes listeners on a new funky soul-infused journey from tunes that have heavy hip-hop influences to more synth-based tracks.

They've ditched their classic matching suits to bringing their four distinct personalities and putting those individual flavors into their most diverse album yet.

We spoke with two of Chicano Batman's members, Carlos Arevalo and Eduardo Arinas, to learn a little bit more about how they didn't get pigeonholed as a Latino band and how they reinvented themselves on their latest album while also staying true to exactly who they've always been.

My name is Eduardo Arinas and I play bass in Chicano Batman.

My name is Carlos Arevalo, I play guitar in Chicano Batman.

Chicano Batman's sound has evolved. We've been in band for more than 10 years.

I'm not sure if it's true.

A lot of our music in the past was kind of rooted in the ballads of Latin American soul records.

The first couple of times that people saw this play, they were just... they still just stare at us.

Honestly, they're trying to figure out what the hell it is that it came to see and how it is that we're doing it.

What we're doing is so unique because of who we each are.

We've always been unified by the fact that we always wore matching outfits on stage.

We were three piece suits, which comes from, I guess you could say, like the Beatles, how they would wear matching suits and then a lot of soul groups would emulate that style.

We would do that and that was a cool way to be unified as a group.

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