MEXICO CITY — Alex Moreno stepped into the spotlight, a half-dozen mariachis in silver and black sombreros behind him, and brought the microphone to his lips. “We don’t want to sing anymore about your ...

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 ...

El Makabelico was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury under Trump for allegedly laundering drug cartel money through his rap career and streaming royalties. Mexican rapper “Narco rapper” El Makabelico was ...

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 ...

MEXICO CITY — Two days before her new album was launched, musical icon Vivir Quintana was behind barbed wire at a women’s prison in Mexico. The singer had spent the past 10 years visiting women ...

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.

At a Mexican military base, Captain Eduardo Barron 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 from a band of a dozen ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEXICO CITY (AP) — At a Mexican military ...