Juan De La Cruz Band has been played on NTS in shows including Mild Animals, featured first on 8 September 2017. Songs played include Maskara.

During the 1970s Juan Dela Cruz Band came into the music scene releasing “Ang Himig Natin” (Our Melody) which first made Pinoy Rock popular. Some other songs of the band are “Beep Beep”, “Balong Malalim” (Deep Excavation) and “Teachers Enemy Number One”. Juan Dela Cruz band consists of Joey “Pepe” Smith on vocals and drums, Wally Gonzalez on guitars, and Mike Hanopol on bass. After the break-up of Juan Dela Cruz band, both Wally Gonzalez and Mike Hanopol had successful...