{"id":130113,"date":"2026-02-11T15:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130113\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T15:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:45:26","slug":"mariachi-el-bronx-mariachi-el-bronx-iv-review-diy-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130113\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariachi El Bronx &#8211; Mariachi El Bronx IV review \u2022 DIY Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the UK ear, there\u2019s still something novel about <a href=\"https:\/\/diymag.com\/artist\/the-bronx\" class=\"mariachi-el-bronx-iv-1983935\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bronx<\/a>\u2019s almost two-decade-old mariachi side project. Of course, being California natives, it\u2019s a familiar style of music to the venerable punk rippers. However, for the UK listener, it\u2019s a wonderful but relatively unusual sound, full of colourful rhythms and fiery lyrics. It\u2019s an approach that actually suits The Bronx perfectly. Like their usual high-energy punk rock, these twelve songs are similarly charged and passionate, just without the familiar shouty vocals and distorted guitars. Frontman Matt Caughthran showcases a fabulous singing voice, regaling tales of loves lost (\u2018Fool\u2019s Gold\u2019), gambling woes (\u2018Gambler\u2019s Prayer\u2019) and revolutionary battles (\u2018Bandoleros\u2019). It\u2019s all intoxicating, right down to the album\u2019s cover art with its sun-scorched vibe that begs to be thrust head-first into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the UK ear, there\u2019s still something novel about The Bronx\u2019s almost two-decade-old mariachi side project. Of course,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-130113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}