Café Tacvba – Sino

Café Tacvba(sometimes Tacuba) is Mexico’s most acclaimed rock band of the past fifteen years through their mixing alternative/indie rock styles with traditional and folkloric Mexican music. The band also became known for their live shows featuring the showmanship of singer Rubén Albarran who channels James Brown through Salvador Dalí(though sometimes dressed as Frida Kahlo). The band is [...]

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Zoé – Memo Rex Commander y el Corazón Atómico de la Vía Láctea

The band Zoé has emerged after three albums, as one of Mexico’s most popular and accomplished indie rock bands. However unlike other contemporary Mexican bands, like Kinky or El Gran Silencio, Zoé doesn’t use any traditional styles in their music and sound as if they could almost come from anywhere in the world. The band has more in common with [...]

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Kinky – Reina and Sassy

Monterrey band Kinky has developed a successful formula of combining modern rock and electronics with Northern Mexican styles, much like Nortec Collective from Tijuana except with instrumentalists instead of DJs. The band relentlessly tours Mexico and the west coast of the US and earned a reputation for one of the most exciting, crowd pleasing shows around.

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Los Tres – Hagelo Usted Mismo

The legendary Chilean band Los Tres, reunited last year and released Hagelo Usted Mismo this year, their first released in the United States. The band, founded in 1982, began recording and realizing success all over Latin America during the 1990s as Chilean society opened up. Although their new wave rock showed their folk and jazz [...]

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