JOP and company capped off the Chicago fest with "Marlboro Rojo," surprise guests and the kind of fan hysteria that stopped the show more than once. By Isabela Raygoza Associate Editor, Billboard ...

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Junior H is is changing his tunes when it comes to the controversy surrounding corridos tumbados, the Mexican genre that the Mexican government claims glorifies crime and violence. On Monday, the ...

The magic of 12-string guitars in corrido music lies in their string arrangement. With pairs of strings tuned in octaves (except for the two highest pairs, which are tuned in unison), these ...

Carolina Imperial performs at the “Mexico Canta” semifinals. Courtesy of Mexico's Secretary of Culture Narco-corridos — ballads that glorify the lives of drug traffickers and cartels — are hugely ...

While we might think of Peso Pluma today, the history of corridos goes back centuries. Here's how a Mexican legend was made. Talking about music and the effect it has on humans is complex. Music ...

Mexican music is facing a crackdown. Local authorities are banning public performances of narcocorridos, popular ballads that romanticise drug cartels. As the country wrestles with the “effects of ...

Apollo Frequencies is a series exploring sounds that seem to come from another world. The premise was simple and tongue in cheek: “Let’s make the first corrido about doing K.” The idea wasn’t entirely ...

Corridos is a genre that has been around for generations. Now, it's hitting the charts in a new style, inspiring bands in New Mexico. "Corridos tumbados changed up the whole Mexican music." Corridos ...

July first became a paradoxical Groundhog Day as Natanael Cano, one of the pioneers of the corrido tumbados genre — Mexican folk songs revamped with trap — released his latest album, “Porque La Demora ...

Natanael Cano, the OG king of corridos tumbados, took a surprise turn with his new album Porque La Demora. After two years focusing on collaborations with his genre peers (and to the shock of some of ...

It’s Saturday night at a rooftop bar in downtown Atlanta, and the band Orden Activa is about to launch into a Mexican ballad. What seemed like a shy and reserved audience suddenly transforms as the ...