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Feeling Kinky
The band’s upcoming appearances include the KCRW Sounds Eclectico fest in Los Angeles July 1 and Baltimore’s Artscape Festival July 23, along with a string of dates with Manu Chao and Los Lonely Boys stretching into late August.
The band’s third album, Reina, is set for release September 5. The group endured a mudslide in its Los Angeles-area studio while recording the disc, but managed to persevere.
“We had to rebuild all of our instruments, using our Mexican way, utilizing whatever was readily available; clips, duck tape, random scraps of metal, branches, just about anything we could get our hands on,” drummer Omar Gongora said.
The group, which traveled the U.S. last summer with Cafe Tacuba, is planning to launch a full national tour when Reina is released.