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 ...

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 ...

The norteño icons sing and speak uncensored. By Leila Cobo Chief Content Officer Latin/Español, Billboard As the debate over narcocorridos heats up, the original masters of the genre, Los Tigres del ...

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 ...

Since the mid-2010s, Latino music has gained massive popularity in the U.S. and abroad. Genres from reggaeton to regional Mexican music have taken the world by storm. Some Latino Sun Devils have found ...

Mexican artists built enormous audiences singing about drug cartels and narco culture. Cities and states are now moving against the style. Mexican artists built enormous audiences singing about drug ...

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 ...

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Authorities in Mexico are offering famed corridos singer Natanael Cano and other artists state protection after a drug cartel in northern Mexico publicly threatened them, prosecutors say Tuesday 07 ...