OK, I'LL start it: Rolling Banda/Duranguense/Narcocorrido/Flashy Matching Suits Regional Mexican Thread

FINAL – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOS ANGELES – January 13, 2011 – Telemundo’s mun2, the second most watched Hispanic cable network among Persons 18-34, announced its new reality series “I Love Jenni” today at NBC Universal’s 2011 TCA Press Tour. “Access Hollywood’s” Shaun Robinson joined as moderator during the press conference, where she interviewed Executive Producer and Star of the reality series, Jenni Rivera and unveiled a sneak peek of “I Love Jenni,” which is slated to premiere March, 2011. The presentation was held at The Langham Hotel in Pasadena, California. Visit mun2.tv/ilovepress for a sneak peek of “I Love Jenni.”

“As mun2 continues to celebrate our uniquely American stories, we couldn’t be prouder to showcase Jenni Rivera’s life,” said Flavio Morales, SVP of Programming and Production for mun2. “Thousands of people around the world have fallen in love with Jenni Rivera and we know you will too.”

“As Producer of our last show on mun2, it was gratifying to see that viewers tuned in,” said Jenni Rivera. “In season two, “I Love Jenni” turns the focus on my complicated career and family, and how we live in both worlds. Fans will get a behind the scenes look at mi vida loca, and all the different personalities in the Rivera family. This is going to be one fun ride.”

“I Love Jenni” is a uniquely American reality series that welcomes viewers to the world of the Rivera family, with Jenni Rivera as our guide. The 13-episode show will offer an inside look at the life of Jenni the superstar, the proud mother of five, the grandmother, the entrepreneur, the media-maven, and now the newlywed, having recently married MLB LA Dodger pitcher and two-time All-Star player Esteban Loaiza.

Jenni Rivera partnered with mun2 in 2010 as Co-Executive Producer of the reality show, “Jenni Rivera Presents Chiquis and Raq-C,” which scored record ratings for the network. Nearly four million (Persons 2+) total viewers tuned in to the reality show during its first season on air and the season finale delivered an impressive 222,000 (Persons 2+) total viewers, 124,000 (Persons 18-34), and 141,000 (Persons 18-49) on average, making it the network's highest rated original reality series. “Jenni Rivera Presents Chiquis and Raq-C” scored over 7 million page views on mun2.tv and, in the last six months, 1.2 million unique visitors have requested Jenni Rivera content.

Jenni Rivera is the most prominent female recording artist in regional Mexican music, the top-selling Latin music genre in the U.S. She is a multi-gold, platinum and double platinum award-winning artist whose record-breaking streaks include being the first Latin artist to sell out the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles two nights in a row.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/nyregion/12bands.html

Mexican norteno music on the NY subways

I love the flashy matching suits so much.

i think this thread needs more pictures

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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_P-biL5cjMpM/SZ7vAWX5JcI/AAAAAAAAAMY/-l6Z5WvrtyE/s400/LosTigresDelNorte-320x240-12542.jpg

http://img.blogdeblogs.com/miusyk/uploads/2010/12/lostigresdelnorte.jpg

Awesome

sweet article

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/19/136459983/first-listen-los-tigres-del-norte-and-friends

Los Tigres new album with a zillion guests including Residente of Calle 13 streaming

pointy shoe thing in the guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2011/may/16/pointy-boots-craze-matehuala-mexico

The Leningrad Cowboys from Finland must be proud

Grupo Exterminador are coming to the DC area. Anyone like them? I haven't searched for their music online yet.

Come back Dr. Phil and Matt-Haikunym. We need folks who know these genres...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/education/tuba-thefts-plague-california-schools.html?ref=music

“But banda has really grown,” Mr. Campos said. “It’s like a new, cool trend with young people. It’s now cool to have a live band with a tuba, or to be a tuba player.”

As a result, sousaphones have made work in bandas more lucrative. A banda can make at least $3,000 for a night’s work at a wedding or quinceañera, said J. D. Salas, who teaches tuba at Steven F. Austin State University in Texas.

And the tuba player, who is often the leader of the group, usually gets the largest share.

amazing i love that

Emphasizing tuba is a really good way for them to keep their music from being co-opted

I don't see this posted already:

5 norteno musicians, 4 others killed in Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A masked man opened fire on a band playing popular norteno music Saturday in a Chihuahua city dance hall, killing five musicians, four customers and injuring 10 others.

Chihuahua prosecutors spokesman Carlos Gonzalez said the attack appeared to target members of the La Quinta Banda group but the motive behind the early morning shooting wasn't clear. The suspect, a short man wearing a gray sweatshirt, fired about 40 times with a high-caliber weapon in the Far West disco.

Among the dead was an off-duty police officer, Gonzalez said.

Norteno singers in Mexico have been targeted before, apparently for getting involved with drug cartels, which pay them to compose narcocorridos, or ballads that glorify drug lords.

In 2010, popular norteno singer Sergio Vega was shot dead as he road in his red Cadillac in Sinaloa, a state that has produced many of Mexico's most notorious drug kingpins. Another Norteno singer killed was Valentin Elizalde, "El Gallo de Oro," who was shot to death along with his manager and driver in 2006 following a performance in Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas.

La Quinta Banda was well-known in the city of Chihuahua, but not nearly as popular as Elizalde or Vega.

Its MySpace account showcases songs mostly about love and parties.

Photos from local newspapers showed the bloody bodies of the band members lying next to their instruments on stage. Four people were killed in another shooting at the same dance hall in August 2009.

People who answered cell phones listed for La Quinta Banda identified themselves as relatives of the musicians but didn't want to give their names.

The band had reduced its workload, while sometimes playing at extravagant parties in ranches, because of increased drug violence in the northern state.

Also on Saturday, federal police announced the capture of a leader of one armed gang hired by the world's most powerful drug lord Joaquin Guzman, also known as El Chapo.

Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, 33, is the suspected leader of Gente Nueva, an armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel mainly based in the border city of Ciudad Juarez. Federal police agents arrested Torres with his bodyguard Friday in the central Mexican city of Leon.

Federal police anti-drug chief Ramon Pequeno said Torres is accused of being the mastermind behind a September 2009 massacre at a rehab center where 18 people were killed.

Torres has an arrest warrant in El Paso, Texas, on drug trafficking charges, Pequeno said.

wow that tuba raid story is awesome! too bad about the murders, though.

I missed AK-7 (Mexican banda) Saturday night at El Boqueron II, in Rockville, MD outside Washington DC. Have not seen any reviews for it (and have not checked tweets).

http://www.negrophonic.com/2012/mexican-drug-ballads-marathon-time/

Man, sad news: Jenni Rivera's died in a plane crash:

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2012/12/jenni_rivera_plane_missing.php

Terrible news - a huge loss to the genre. I interviewed her back in 2010.

Yeah, that's really bad. She seemed like such a life force, and I feel for her poor family. "Jenni" was easily one of my favorite albums last decade, and "Parrandera, Rebelde y Atrevida" wasn't too far behind.

So sad.

Gustavo Arellano's obituary and celebration:

http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-12-13/news/jenni-rivera-la-diva-de-banda-plane-crash/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mainstream-medias-ignorance-of-jenni-rivera-raises-image-of-parallel-americas/2012/12/11/af858792-43d4-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_story.html

Washington Post article mentions Arellano and notes that the Washington Post and many other Enlish language locations never covered Rivera while she was alive (and selling out the Staples Center in Los Angeles). I stumbled across a long story on Rivera and her death on tv on Entertainment Tonight. They suddenly loved her backstory and what might have been (planned English language tv show, etc). There was a nice NY Times obit.

More about the crash coming out makes it seem that the plane owner is a REAL shady motherfucker.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jenni-rivera-plane-20121213,0,6099563,full.story

That stinks.

I saw on TPM someone saying "don't ever ride on a private plane if you;re a musician"; presumably referencing Buddy Holly and whomever.

In happier news, Singles Jukebox talked up Roberto Tapia's #1 Regional/#2 Latin hit "Mirando al Cielo" thanks to me, though I wasn't real happy with my blurb. And then on tumblr J0nathan B0gart gave a nuanced account of how reg Mex does and does not equal country music.

Bogart: http://jonathanbogart.tumblr.com/post/37818259528/screwrocknroll-thesinglesjukebox-amnesty

Jukebox: http://thesinglesjukebox.tumblr.com/post/37776519564/amnesty-2012-roberto-tapia-mirando-al-cielo#notes

I reviewed Tapia's 2008 and 2009 albums for AMG, but kinda lost track of him after that. Maybe I should revisit.

Latin Grammy Banda album nominees. The show is on November 21st

Banda Album

"Las Vueltas De La Vida" — Banda Carnaval

"El Free" — Banda Los Recoditos

"2012 Fin y Principio De Una Era" — Cuisillos

"Pá La Raza" — El Dasa

"Muchas Gracias" — La Adictiva Banda De San José Mesillas

"La Original y Sus Boleros De Amor" — La Original Banda El Limón De Salvador Lizárraga

Should probably go see Montez de Durango tonight, but I'm tired

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/los-tigres-del-norte-sing-the-real-stuff-at-immigration-rally/2013/10/08/c3a26a84-304f-11e3-bbed-a8a60c601153_story.html

Jose Perez Leon is such a devastating song.

http://www.npr.org/2013/11/26/247162901/ak-47s-accordions-and-angels-of-death-narcocorridos-hit-the-big-screen

movie doc

That female banda band Los Horoscopos du Darango are back in my part of the world Friday...

I happened upon Los Horoscopos at Taste of Chicago, in 2011 I think. They were really good -- the set was half banda half duranguense, but the banda had some snazzy moves when they weren't playing. Nonstop energy and musicianship.

In other news, the EMP Pop Conference schedule is up, and I'll be presenting with Mr. Kun and Ms. Buendía on this panel, hooray:
Movements
Buendía, “How to Make It in the Americas: The Workings of An Independent Transnational Music Community”
Kun, “I Know All the Borders, Roads, Rivers and Canals: Mobility, Movements, and the Making of ‘Regional Mexican’ Music”
Langhoff, “Pronounced ‘Jai-Fi’: California Norteño, the Word “Hyphy,” and the Story of a Movement”

It's Saturday afternoon April 26, if anyone's going.

My favorite norteno album so far this year is Los Buitres' TERRITORIO BUITRE, but that's not saying a whole lot. About half the songs flip between quartet and banda, and those are the best songs. There's also a couple decent Espinoza Paz numbers and a few that are middling to boring, notably their attempt at an accordion-driven power ballad. I'm still happy to listen all the way through, though. "Mejor Soltero" and "Noche de Lokera" are especially good. They're a weird band -- they alternate between seeming really ambitious and phoning it in.

PopCon schedule: http://www.empmuseum.org/programs-plus-education/programs/pop-conference.aspx?t=schedule#Tabs

Cool

the set was half banda half duranguense, but the banda had some snazzy moves when they weren't playing. Nonstop energy and musicianship.

May I confess to still not always knowing the difference between these two styles and norteno, as well. Can you explain them?

May I confess to still not always knowing the difference between these two styles and norteno, as well. Can you explain them?

Duranguense: too fast half the time; also, ultra-cheesy keyboards
Banda: fucking clarinets
Norteño: THE BEST, because the most stripped-down (guitar, bass, drums, accordion, maybe saxophone)

new blog (early self promotion): http://nortenoblog.wordpress.com/

Humorist's breakdown is basically right on, though he's bothered by clarinets more than I am. A banda's a big band, 16 members or so, with brass, clarinets, and often percussion. Norteño usually refers to a smaller band, with drums, bajo sexto, bass or tuba, and accordion. There is also a repertoire of norteño songs, which bandas often play. Some bandas and norteño groups have close relationships, notably Banda Carnaval and Calibre 50, which share some songwriting credits. Current pop songwriters like Luciano Luna and Espinoza Paz write songs for both types of ensembles.

Duranguense's its own thing and is mostly over at this point. If I remember correctly, its Grammy category was "banda." It's a little like a synth-based approximation of banda, though still mostly acoustic instruments -- the synths take lead lines and oompahs. The lead lines are indeed ultra cheesy; the best artists either buried them in the mix (Diana Reyes) or played up the demented aspects of the music (Banda Lamento Show).

looks good

Hey guyz this thread still exists

From Dr. Phil's blog (minus the links):

These were the top Regional Mexican songs of December 18, 1999, as reported by Billboard. Some things to note:

Los Angeles Azules continue to intrigue.

Several of these bands — El Recodo, Primavera, Los Tigres — released music in 2014. All of them sound pretty much the same today as they did 15 years ago.

Ah, the sound of traditional dance music.

Am now checking out La Nueva Rebelion.

Hey, thanks for reading! Here's the NorteñoBlog Top 10-ish lists. PopMatters ran the same lists with Haikunym adding a blurb for Regulo Caro's album. I would also like to complain that out of 10 Latin albums and 10 Latin songs, Billboard's year-end best-of found space for exactly one norteño artist, Regulo Caro. It's a good song, though -- "Soltero Disponible."

The Singles Jukebox covers La Nueva Rebelión: http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=14673

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/music/ariel-camacho-dies-at-22-lead-singer-of-los-plebes-del-rancho.html?action=click&contentCollection=Music®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article

Young Mexican norteno and narcocorrido singer

Singer/accordion player Alfredo Olivas shot six times at a show in Chihuahua; 3 people arrested; multiple concerts postponed, obviously.

crazy down there at times

DOMINGO 22 DE MARZO

MONTEZ DE DURANGO
Y AUTORIDAD DE LA SIERRA

EN CONCIERTO!

100 Damas entran Gratis hasta las 10:30pm

Here's NorteñoBlog's top singles of 2015, first quarter, and the accompanying Youtube playlist.

Plus more violence: Javier Rosas, who I was just starting to like, got shot in a scenario that sounds more cartel-related than Olivas's situation. That may still be hearsay, though. (Billboard also reports that "on March 15, Rogelio "El Chicken" Contreras Rivera, of the band Kumbiamberos RS, was kidnapped and killed while playing at a bar in Monterrey," which is terrible.) Of course, Gerardo Ortiz bounced back from a similar shooting incident to become the face of the genre. It reminds me of kids liking 50 Cent for his "authenticity" when he first came out -- I'm pretty sure I'm not imagining that? -- though Ortiz is a way better artist than 50 ever was, and Rosas might be also.

Fascinating article on the banda scene in New York.

Nice. Lots of details.

I am reading a book of essays about regional Mexican music and migration (Musica sin fronteras: ensayos sobre migracion, musica, e identidad) and am learning so much about regional Mexican music. It's really interesting and is making me stop every half page to google something. <3 (also it's in Spanish so I am learning a lot of new musical vocabulary)

Your Spanish is better than mine

http://wiserwithage.com/2019/11/14/grandmother-81-releases-debut-album-with-grandson-and-is-nominated-by-latin-grammys-for-best-norteno-album/?fbclid=IwAR3350j9AgliMsx6XyH2LdLubSon4hvXaF6ZKSZkmq84SqN7cXRA5C9Lpqk

Grandma Norteno album with grandson and his band nominated for Latin Grammys

construction workers next door to my place are blaring their music loud. Shazam says they have played yesterday songs including Betillo Guerrero "Por Clave el 13" and norteno band Los Tucanes de Tijuana

Peso Pluma on Why Being the First Regional Mexican Artist in Spotify’s RADAR Program Is ‘Big for the Country, the Genre and the Industry’ https://t.co/ooHfqTNca7

— billboard latin (@billboardlatin) May 22, 2023

Haven’t figured out why Peso Pluma is getting crossover attention that prior regional Mexican musicians didn’t get

Peso Pluma is playing a huge outdoor arena near DC in August

Also mentioned in this other thread

natanael cano and corridos tumbados