Mariachi El Bronx “Quinceniera”/ “I Would Die 4 U (Prince Cover)”
After discovering Mariachi El Bronx via their gorgeously festive remake of Prince’s “I Would Die 4 U” from SPIN’s Purplish Rain tribute mixtape a while back, we were surprised to learn, after a couple seconds of Internet sleuthing, that MEB was not only this amazing band with an expert handling of the mariachi musical style (at least, what sounds like “expert handling” from our limited-knowledge-of-the-genre standpoint), but actually the alter-ego of The Bronx, a well-established hardcore punk band out of L.A.
And we thought we had heard it all.
The Bronx recently dropped the first album under this guise (entitled El Bronx) and to further hype the project, they’ve allowed a free downloading of album track “Quinceniera”, an tenderly crooned nugget about a night-creeping mystical Goddess that’s pleasantly built on a romancing sway of jolly Spanish guitars and soothing trumpet and violin contributions.
Pick up that freebie here, then sample the rest of the quite marvelous El Bronx album either through their MySpace or the Amazon widget below.
“I Would Die 4 U (Prince Cover)” (DL) (alt):
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