BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:876@jointherevolution.net DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261004T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261004T230000 DTSTAMP:20260716T183231Z URL:https://www.jointherevolution.net/concerts/mariachi-el-bronx/ 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 sto rytelling. “Punk rock and mariachi music are very similar in soul\,” s ays songwriter and lead vocalist Matt Caughthran.\n\n“It's working class music. It’s real music.”\nWith three acclaimed albums to their name\, the eight-piece has shared stages with the Foo Fighters and the Killers\, performed everywhere from Letterman to NPR’s Tiny Desk\, and lit up fes tivals from Coachella to Glastonbury. They even lent their sound to TV\, r ecording theme songs for Weeds (“Little Boxes”) and Aqua Teen Hunger F orce (“Aqua Something You Know Whatever”). Returning after a decade aw ay felt “joyous and familiar from the jump\,” says\nguitarist Joby J. Ford. But recording their fourth album\, Mariachi El Bronx IV\, proved mor e complex than expected.\n\nWithin the year that he began writing lyrics\, Caughthran contended with the deaths of several loved ones. Additionally\ , as they tracked at producer John Avila's San Gabriel Valley studio - Avi la has helmed all four of their mariachi records - the Eaton Canyon 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 dealing with g rief in his personal life and within his longtime home of Southern\nCalifo rnia\, Caughthran was also experiencing an enormity of love as he got marr ied that same year.\n\nThese clashing emotions of profound loss and overwh elming love shaped the album's themes. The songwriting "started as a battl e 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 t he band document the stories of gamblers\, former playboys\, warriors\, lo vers - characters that became vessels for the specific pressures of being alive right now. The contemporary disillusionment with love underscores th e “RIP Romeo\,” for instance\, which Caughthran describes as both the death of Romeo as a figure and a culture in mourning.\n\nThat push and pul l is palpable on a song like “Forgive Or Forget\,” the album’s high- octane opener. Amidst its galloping rhythm\, a uniquely hallucinogenic ton e emerges from Ray Suen’s violin that complements Caughthran’s lyrics about someone “who’s completely disheveled and a little washed out\, l ooking back on their life in a way that's kind of hazy\,” he says. “Th ere's a little\nbit of hope there\, but it's pretty dark.”\nAnother sing le\, “Song Bird\,” tackles a different kind of terror: writer’s bloc k. Caughthran was going through a rough bout of zapped creativity when the band’s Vincent Hidalgo came up with a pulse-quickening guitar line in t he studio. To Caughthran\, the riff reminded him of a hummingbird flappin g its wings - the same bird he'd watch outside his writing window. The blo ck faded instantly as lyrics poured out of his brain: “I was staring at another empty page / Feeling every single second of my age.”\n\nThe figh ting spirit of Mariachi El Bronx emerges on the Norteño charged “Bandol eros\,” which they describe as the “battle cry of the album.” At a t ime when chaos is surging around the world and 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 heroism: “We ride out / No matter how\nbad it may seem.” With four albums now under their belts as Mariach i El Bronx\, the band still considers themselves lifelong students of mari achi\; its members strive to continue progressing in their musicianship wh ile paying homage to this storied artform. That reverence carries over to their iconic charro suits\, which often attract nearly as much attention a s the music itself. The band\nhas long turned to Casa del Mariachi in Boyl e Heights - a shop honored by the city as a historic landmark - where Jorg e Tello (aka Mr. George) has been handcrafting traditional suits for more than 50 years. "This band has always been about learning and exchanging cu lture 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 Douglas (trumpet)\, Ray Suen (violin)\, Brad Magers (trumpet)\, Ken Horne (jarana)\, and Vincent Hidalgo (guitarr ón). ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.jointherevolution.net/wp-content/upl oads/2026/07/Static_Social-Instagram_1080x1350_MariachiElBronx_2026_Region al_RevolutionLive_1004.jpg CATEGORIES:All Ages,Concerts LOCATION:Revolution Live\, 100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Lauderdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States GEO:26.121358;-80.1461974 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=100 SW 3rd Ave.\, Fort Laud erdale\, FL\, 33312\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Revolution Live:geo:26.121358,-80.1461974 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR