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Vicente Serna on May 4, 2017
Jose Cervantes plays it fairly straight in the traditional cumbia band he started with his younger siblings and a best friend from middle school. All of the players in Corazón Salvaje are millennials, who grew up skateboarding and listening to punk and hip-hop. But instead of mashing everything up into a genre…
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Diana San Juan, Vicente Serna, Nick Veronin on May 4, 2017
Mateo Gonzales presses play and the track springs to life. The window on his laptop shows various layers of composition scrolling by. There’s a sample of Bobby Day’s “Rockin’ Robin.” The trilling whistle of the early rockabilly hit leaps from the small computer speakers, as do the more tinny rhythmic elements: the high…
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