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 ...

Luis R Conriquez has been itching to make a rap and reggaeton album for a long time. Sure, he’s a corridos artist at heart, but he’d always wondered if other genres could work, too. “With everything ...

The lead singer of the regional Mexican band Enigma Norteño, Ernesto Barajas, was shot and killed on Tuesday in the municipality of Zapopan in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, according to ABC 7. The ...

Over the last few years, there's been a boom of interest in corridos tumbados, the genre that fuses regional Mexican music with American trap. That combination has led artists like Peso Pluma and ...

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 ...

El Enfermo with his pendant of Malverde, who some consider the narco patron saint, on May 14, 2025. (William Savinar/Courthouse News) MEXICO CITY (CN) — It all started at a March 29 concert at the ...

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 ...

A Mexican artist was forced to flee a concert stage on Saturday after enraging fans by saying he had been banned by the government from singing popular songs glorifying drug traffickers.

This story was reported for K Onda KQED, a monthly newsletter focused on the Bay Area’s Latinx community. Click here to subscribe. Oakland artist DELACiiO’s latest EP features a corrido titled “R94,” ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — At a Mexican military base, Captain Eduardo Barrón picks up not a rifle but a microphone. Swaying boot-to-boot, he belts out a song as the sounds of trumpets and accordions roar ...

In “Ch y la Pizza,” a 2022 collaboration between Mexican corrido tumbado star Natanael Cano and Fuerza Regida, the California-bred música Mexicana group, hidden meanings abound. In one verse, the song ...