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SUMMARY:Mariachi El Bronx
DESCRIPTION:After a 10 year hiatus\, the beloved Los Angeles trailblazers M
 ariachi El Bronx are dusting off their charro suits again. The alter ego o
 f punk rock heroes The Bronx\, this band’s 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
 ’t see the genres of punk and mariachi as mutually exclusive – to them
 \, punk and mariachi are spiritually entwined forces rooted in resilient s
 torytelling. “Punk rock and mariachi music are very similar in soul\,”
  says songwriter and lead vocalist Matt Caughthran.\n\n“It’s working c
 lass music. It’s real music.”\nWith three acclaimed albums to their na
 me\, the eight-piece has shared stages with the Foo Fighters and the Kille
 rs\, performed everywhere from Letterman to NPR’s Tiny Desk\, and lit up
  festivals from Coachella to Glastonbury. They even lent their sound to TV
 \, recording theme songs for Weeds (“Little Boxes”) and Aqua Teen Hung
 er Force (“Aqua Something You Know Whatever”). Returning after a decad
 e away felt “joyous and familiar from the jump\,” says\nguitarist Joby
  J. Ford. But recording their fourth album\, Mariachi El Bronx IV\, proved
  more complex than expected.\n\nWithin the year that he began writing lyri
 cs\, Caughthran contended with the deaths of several loved ones. Additiona
 lly\, as they tracked at producer John Avila’s San Gabriel Valley studio
  – Avila has helmed all four of their mariachi records – the Eaton Can
 yon fires blazed across East LA. “We came out of the studio one night\, 
 the entire side of the hill was just on fire\,” Ford recalls. While deal
 ing with grief in his personal life and within his longtime home of Southe
 rn\nCalifornia\, Caughthran was also experiencing an enormity of love as h
 e got married that same year.\n\nThese clashing emotions of profound loss 
 and overwhelming love shaped the album’s themes. The songwriting “star
 ted as a battle between love and death but became a way to process “all 
 the chaos of the world\,” Caughthran says. Throughout Mariachi El Bronx 
 IV’s 12 tracks the band document the stories of gamblers\, former playbo
 ys\, warriors\, lovers – characters that became vessels for the specific
  pressures of being alive right now. The contemporary disillusionment with
  love underscores the “RIP Romeo\,” for instance\, which Caughthran de
 scribes as both the death of Romeo as a figure and a culture in mourning.\
 n\nThat push and pull is palpable on a song like “Forgive Or Forget\,”
  the album’s high-octane opener. Amidst its galloping rhythm\, a uniquel
 y hallucinogenic tone emerges from Ray Suen’s violin that complements Ca
 ughthran’s lyrics about someone “who’s completely disheveled and a l
 ittle washed out\, looking back on their life in a way that’s kind of ha
 zy\,” he says. “There’s a little\nbit of hope there\, but it’s pre
 tty dark.”\nAnother single\, “Song Bird\,” tackles a different kind 
 of terror: writer’s block. Caughthran was going through a rough bout of 
 zapped creativity when the band’s Vincent Hidalgo came up with a pulse-q
 uickening guitar line in the studio. To Caughthran\, the riff reminded him
  of a hummingbird flapping its wings – the same bird he’d watch outsi
 de his writing window. The block faded instantly as lyrics poured out of h
 is brain: “I was staring at another empty page / Feeling every single se
 cond of my age.”\n\nThe fighting spirit of Mariachi El Bronx emerges on 
 the Norteño charged “Bandoleros\,” which they describe as the “batt
 le cry of the album.” At a time when chaos is surging around the world a
 nd close to home\, the call to arms that imbued these feelings of courage 
 and righteous indignation. The song concludes on a hard-won note of herois
 m: “We ride out / No matter how\nbad it may seem.” With four albums no
 w under their belts as Mariachi El Bronx\, the band still considers themse
 lves lifelong students of mariachi\; its members strive to continue progre
 ssing in their musicianship while paying homage to this storied artform. T
 hat reverence carries over to their iconic charro suits\, which often attr
 act nearly as much attention as the music itself. The band\nhas long turne
 d to Casa del Mariachi in Boyle Heights – a shop honored by the city as 
 a historic landmark – where Jorge Tello (aka Mr. George) has been handcr
 afting traditional suits for more than 50 years. “This band has always b
 een about learning and exchanging culture through music and art\,” says 
 Caughthran. “That’s what it’s all about! Everything we do comes from
  the\nheart and soul.”\n\nMariachi El Bronx is Matt Caughthran (vocals)\
 , Joby J. Ford (guitar\, accordion)\, Jared Shavelson (drums)\, Keith Doug
 las (trumpet)\, Ray Suen (violin)\, Brad Magers (trumpet)\, Ken Horne (ja
 rana)\, and Vincent Hidalgo (guitarrón).\n\nFor more information and tick
 ets click here.
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