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ABOUT MARIACHI EL BRONX:
After a 10 year hiatus, the beloved Los Angeles trailblazers Mariachi El Bronx are dusting off their charro suits again. The alter ego of punk rock heroes The Bronx, this band\u2019s unexpected headlining career began back in 2008 after the hardcore group sought ways to grow creatively while celebrating the Hispanic music and culture they were surrounded by growing up in Los Angeles. Although seemingly different, the band doesn\u2019t see the genres of punk and mariachi as mutually exclusive \u2013 to them, punk and mariachi are spiritually entwined forces rooted in resilient storytelling. \u201cPunk rock and mariachi music are very similar in soul,\u201d says songwriter and lead vocalist Matt Caughthran. \u201cIt\u2019s working class music. It\u2019s real music.\u201d<\/p>\n
With four acclaimed albums to their name, the eight-piece has shared stages with the Foo Fighters and the Killers, performed everywhere from Letterman to NPR\u2019s Tiny Desk, and lit up festivals from Coachella to Glastonbury. They even lent their sound to TV, recording theme songs for Weeds (\u201cLittle Boxes\u201d) and Aqua Teen Hunger Force (\u201cAqua Something You Know Whatever\u201d). Returning after a decade away felt \u201cjoyous and familiar from the jump,\u201d says guitarist Joby J. Ford.<\/p>\n
Mariachi El Bronx still considers themselves lifelong students of mariachi; its members strive to continue progressing in their musicianship while paying homage to this storied artform. That reverence carries over to their iconic charro suits, which often attract nearly as much attention as the music itself. The band has long turned to Casa del Mariachi in Boyle Heights \u2013 a shop honored by the city as a historic landmark \u2013 where Jorge Tello (aka Mr. George) has been handcrafting traditional suits for more than 50 years. \u201cThis band has always been about learning and exchanging culture through music and art,\u201d says Caughthran. \u201cThat\u2019s what it\u2019s all about! Everything we do comes from the heart and soul.\u201d<\/p>\n
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ABOUT THE BRONX:
Do anything for long enough \u2013 even something you love \u2013 and there\u2019s a risk you might get a little bored. Your passion might wane, and it might all start to feel routine. You take it for granted and phone it in. That, however, is not the case for The Bronx. The LA-based punks might have formed 18 years ago, but even just one listen to VI and it\u2019s clear that this means just as much to the five-piece as it ever did. If anything, it means even more. There are numerous reasons for that. Partly it\u2019s because making music is just as important and vital to them as ever. It\u2019s also because the band \u2013 founding members Matt Caughthran (vocals) and Joby J Ford (guitar), guitarist Ken Horne, bassist Brad Magers and Joey Castillo, who\u2019s been behind the drum kit since 2018 \u2013 refuse to rest on their laurels at all. In fact, with these 12 uncompromising songs, they\u2019ve done just the opposite.<\/p>\n
It might be nearly 20 years since The Bronx began life, but being in this band is just as much of a crutch for its members now as it always was. The band has, of course, grown in that time, but their reasons haven\u2019t changed in the slightest. Rather, they still make music for the most pure and honest reason \u2013 because they have to.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the years, as you create art,\u201d says Ford, \u201cI personally think trying to funnel whatever comes out of you, or trying to distil it down to something that you want to make is the wrong move. I think that whatever comes out of you that\u2019s affected by all of your other senses is the way to go, and that\u2019s the music you should be making.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Live Nation has today announced that Mariachi El Bronx and The Bronx will return to Australia with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-49988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49988","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=49988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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