Archive for October, 2009

Just added to the gallery: Photos of the band performing at the digital release party.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

{20-year musical institution and freethinkers}
AZTLAN UNDERGROUND

“Some bands write songs, but Aztlan Underground composes storms” – LA Weekly

“Before there was a Rage Against The Machine, there was Aztlan Underground raging against the injustices of the world” – The Scenestar

“Whether you like it or not, Aztlan Underground is forcing you to stop and listen” – Al Borde

Vesper Public Relations: Los Angeles Monday October 26, 2009. Socially conscious world-renowned Aztlan Underground, an institution among Los Angeles musical groups and freethinkers.

For nearly 20 years, Joe “Peps” (bass, rattle, flutes), Ignacio “Caxo” Lopez (drums), Yaotl (vocals, percussion) and
Alonzo Beas (guitar, keyboard, synth) — along with past band members — have cultivated a grassroots audience across the world, intriguing foreign audiences with their respect for the ancient ways and songs of ancestors mixed with the modern, industrial sounds of today.

Fresh off their record launch party at The Troubador in West Hollywood, Aztlan Underground is scheduled to perform in Southern California and Chicago in the coming months.

Aztlan Underground has been bringing their socially conscious sounds since 1989 and has since performed all over the world and even opened for Rage Against The Machine during their Battle of Los Angeles tour of Mexico City.

Aztlan Underground’s new record is a spectrum of urban tribalism mixed with post-punk fusion. To the band: “This album is a callout, a document, a cry, of love for humanity and for the Earth.” Just as nature’s forces work to balance, their music is a merging of guitar, bass, drum, voice, and flute sounds implemented into a modern day context.

Initially disregarded as stereotypical American Yankees, Aztlan Underground shocks and awes foreign audiences with their respect for the ancient ways and songs of ancestors mixed with the modern, industrial sounds of today. They have performed with every socially relevant act, from Rage Against the Machine, Manu Chao, to Fermin Muguruza, and Dead Prez. Aztlan Underground remains true to their name and beliefs by playing political rallies, underground venues and anywhere the doors are open.

The self-titled third album is currently available in digital format.

Available now at the following digital outlets:
Amazon.com, Rhapsody, iTunes, lala.com, Napster, CDBaby

[visit the Store for purchasing information]

For more information, please contact Mariluz Gonzalez at Vesper PR at 818-667-6403 or via email at mgonzalez@vesperpublicrelations.com or Maryl Celiz at 323-899-9960 or via email at maryl.celiz@gmail.com

For more information about Aztlan Underground, visit:
YouTube
The Official Aztlan Underground Site
MySpace

LA Weekly has posted a brief review of the new record:

Notes From the Underground

By Falling James

Some bands write songs, but Aztlan Underground composes storms. The local post-punk collective’s new self-titled CD is their first album since 2001’s Sub-Verses, and only their third overall, following the 1995 debut, Decolonize. After eight years, they’ve got a lot on their minds, decrying war, social injustices and the destruction of indigenous cultures, through such rabid broadsides as “Smell the Dead” and “9/10/11/12 (Message to the Dominant Culture).” There’s a lot of rage against the machine in Yaotl’s caustic rants and raps, but guitarist Alonzo Beas also shapes some majestically psychedelic passages in epic tracks like “Moztlitta” and “Be God” (where Yaotl declares, “We are the fruits of celestial explosions/We are all God”). Aztlan Underground’s sounds and messages are heavy, with the thunderous rhythm section of bassist Joe Peps and drummer Ignacio “Caxo” Lopez laying down thick shards of punk and hard rock, but their music also draws upon the mystic natural power of “urban tribalism,” with flutes, rattles and other indigenous instrumentation.

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Aztlan Underground will be having a release party for the digital launch of the new album (available now) at the Troubadour (get directions) on Sunday, October 18^th (more info) with special guests Geronimo and Killsonic. DJ Nathaniel Eras will also be spinning.

Come check it out! Free promo CD copy of the record with $10 cover at the door.