How Peso Pluma and Tito Double P made 'Dinastía,' and changed the sound of corridos

Peso Pluma (real name Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija) and Tito Double P (real name Jesús Roberto Laija) might have been second ...
KQED

Bay Area Musicians Discuss How Corridos Are Connecting New Generations Across Cultures

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,” ...

Peso Pluma, Tito Double P Celebrate Their Corrido Dynasty on Unapologetic Album, ‘Dinastía’

It was important to send a message to the Mexican people that the more united we are, the stronger we are,” Peso tells ...
Rolling Stone

Luis R Conriquez Breaks Out of Corridos With Genre-Bending Album ‘Meneo’

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 ...
High Times

This 420, We Need To Be Listening To Green Corridos

Legado 7’s lead singer Alex Guerra noticed that the vibe at his band’s concerts changed as their subgenre of Mexican regional music, the stoner-friendly corridos verdes, began to rise in popularity.
Yahoo

Mexico’s ‘narcocorridos’ going mainstream. What’s behind their popularity explosion?

A Mexican musical genre often accused of glorifying drug cartels is exploding in popularity, reaching global pop charts and filling arenas. It marks a new era for “corridos,” which are Mexican ...
Billboard

Know the Difference Between Corridos, Norteño and Sierreño? Our Mexican Music Dictionary Breaks Down the Genre’s Styles

With artists like Peso Pluma and Fuerza Regida dominating the charts, we explain the different subgenres that fall under regional Mexican music. By Tere Aguilera Regional Mexican music is dominating ...
Billboard

Luis R. Conriquez’s Show in Mexico Ends in Chaos for Excluding Narcocorridos

The singer was giving a concert at a palenque on April 11 in the municipality of Texcoco. By Natalia Cano A concert by popular Mexican corrido singer Luis R. Conriquez ended in chaos on Friday night ...
The Fader

Corridos Ketamina’s deep-fried outlaw music

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 ...
London Evening Standard

Corridos tumbados: the modern spin on the Mexican ballad is taking over the charts, but has a complicated past

In Mexico, the corrido ‒ a form of musical ballad used to tell classic tales of romance and struggle ‒ is nothing new, but it is now going global. From the rapid success of Grammy-nominated artist ...
Los Angeles Times

The Story of Narcocorridos--Right or Wrong

Bouncing around the roads of rural Mexico with long-haul truckers who picked him up hitchhiking, Elijah Wald had a captive audience. And that is exactly what the Cambridge, Mass., native wanted. A ...