Music Preview: Cafe Tacvba Bring Smart Stadium Rock To La Zona Rosa Tonight

Pop quiz: name a band that has won multiple Grammys, performed on MTV Unplugged, been compared favorably to Radiohead, played three encores at a recent Lollapalooza, and headlined to 170,000 people at Mexico City's Palacio de los Deportes. If you're thinking U2 or Coldplay, we couldn't blame you. But the answer is actually Cafe Tacvba. The Mexico City quartet may be the best music export their country has to offer. They display a huge range of sounds both on record and in person, and have cultivated a huge international fan base that has found them playing everywhere from Los Angeles to Tokyo in recent months. Cafe Tacvba incorporate everything from punk and traditional Latin sounds to electronics and conventional indie-rock influences into their constantly evolving sound. Each new release from the band is met with great expectation, because nobody knows what to expect it to sound like! Like Radiohead, the band are also notorious knob-twiddlers in the studio, and took four years to record both their latest album and 2003's warmly received Cuatro Caminos.

Cafe Tacvba are touring behind their fall release Sino, which has been described by some as their most conventional and mature rock album yet. AllMusic states that Sino "is abundantly creative, and enriched with fresh musical ideas and well-developed songs." Unlike some past shows, the group are actually using a drummer on this tour, so we expect them to highlight much of the new record at tonight's show. Tonight's concert at La Zona Rosa is of the "An Evening With..." variety, so turn up on time, as there's no opening act.

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