medication compliance, physical activity, food choices, quality of life and health care utilization. This innovative, easily adaptable and low-cost solution has potential to improve glycemic control, knowledge and healthy lifestyle choices in a patient population that has been difficult to reach and complicated to treat. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Latinos in the United States are disproportionately affected by diabetes and face numerous barriers to receiving regular and effective healthcare. Nowhere in the country are the effects of this disparity seen more prominently than in Los Angeles county, where almost half the residents are Latino and the prevalence of diabetes is 50% higher than the national average. The TExT-MED (Trial to Examine Text-Based mHealth for Emergency department patients with Diabetes) program is designed as a novel uni-directional text message basedSound Session since 2007, and has played alongside artists such as Lightning Bolt, Okkervil River, Trombone Shorty, Matt and Kim, and many others. In 2007, the band performed at the Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary and at the Guča trumpet festival in Serbia, as well as in Germany and the Czech Republic. In 2008, the band performed in Machias, Maine, at the Beehive Design Collective's Blackfly Ball and also shared a bill later that year with the B-52s. In 2009, the band performed with Dan Deacon at Lollapalooza in support of his album, Bromst.

In 2010, WC?B was one of eight musical groups chosen to perform at the Haizetara Street Music International Contest in Amorebieta-Etxano, Basque country, where they won the Best in Festival award and  €10,000 during