MARIACHI EL BRONX (III) Is Available Now On White Drugs/ATO Records

Mariachi El Bronx (III) - the self-titled third album from the alter ego of acclaimed Los Angeles punk outfit The Bronx - is available now. "Wildfires," the album's first single is the new Starbucks Pick of the Week. The track premiered on The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog, which praised lead singer Matt Caughthran's "soulful vocals" and revealed the inspiration for the song in this article.

Alternative Press has the exclusive premiere of the lyric video for "New Beat," directed by Josh Knoff. View the video here.

The band is celebrating the album's U.S. release on White Drugs/ATO Records with a pair of special hometown performances. Mariachi El Bronx taped a Sonos Studio session yesterday in front of a live audience in Los Angeles. The session will air on an upcoming episode of KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic." KCRW premiered the album in its entirety last week. The band will play a record release show tonight at LA.'s El Rey Theatre and kick off a West Coast run on November 6 in San Luis Obispo, CA. Long Beach, CA-based band Tijuana Panthers will support along with Pounded By The Surf, a new surf band founded by Joby J. Ford and Vincent Hidalgo, both of Mariachi El Bronx, and Thaddeus Robles (The Heartaches). See below for itinerary.

MOJO awarded Mariachi El Bronx (III) four stars, noting, "they understand that the essence of mariachi is tragedy, and manage to make music that is simultaneously melancholy and uplifting, heartbroken but hopeful... this is an album that expands upon a growing body of work and, like the output of fellow Los Angelino forefathers Los Lobos before them, crosses musical borders." Kerrang said the album "features not just some of the best songs the band has recorded in this guise, but a number of the finest songs heard this year. With an expertise for both composition and arrangement, not to Matt Caughthran's sonorous and luxuriant vocals, it's irresistible in the genuine sense of the word."

(III) follows 2011's Mariachi El Bronx (II), which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Alternative New Artist chart. The band supported (II) with numerous high profile television and radio performances - including "Late Show with David Letterman," "Jimmy Kimmel Live," "Conan," KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic," WXPN's "World Cafe" and KEXP - and extensive touring, including a North American arena run with Foo Fighters.

After concluding their fall West Coast run, Mariachi El Bronx will join Gogol Bordello on a tour of Europe and the UK, where (III) has been released by PIAS Records. It is due out on November 7 on Cooking Vinyl Records in Australia and New Zealand.

MARIACHI EL BRONX - 2014 TOUR DATES
West Coast Headline Tour
11/5 - Los Angeles, CA @ The El Ray Theatre
11/6 - San Luis Obispo, CA @ SLO Brewing Co
11/7 - Santa Barbara, CA @ Velvet Jones
11/8 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
11/10 - Bellingham, WA @ The Wild Buffalo
11/11 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
11/12 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
11/14 - Sacramento, CA @ Assembly Music Hall
11/15 - Fresno, CA @ Strummrers
11/21 - San Diego, CA @ SoundDiego Live

Supporting Gogol Bordello
12/1 - Gdansk, POL @ B90
12/2 - Krakow, POL @ Rotunda
12/4 - Warsaw, POL @ Stodola
12/5 - Berlin, GER @ Astra Kulturhaus
12/6 - Osnabruck, GER @ Hyde Park
12/8 - Newcastle, UK @ O2 Academy
12/9 - Liverpool, UK @ O2 Academy
12/11 - Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy
12/12 - Sheffield, UK @ O2 Academy
12/13 - London, UK @ The Roundhouse
12/14 - Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
12/16 - Dublin, IRE @ The Academy

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