These Mexican punk rockers drink too much and play too damn loud.

13 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Punk, LATIN: Rock en Espanol



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Los Dryheavers play punk rock, the kind of raucous sound that peels paint from walls and leads mothers to ask sons, Hailing from the scenic burb of Watsonville, CA, they've coaxed a politically-influenced and spit-inflected sound from their instruments since 1999.

The five-piece outfit consists of two guitars, the standard rhythm section, and a vocalist who is as comfortable singing in Spanish as he is in English. Of course, this shouldn't come as a surprise? all five members are proudly Mexican-American. As a politically aware band,however, their politics are not derived solely from their ethnicity. "We take a more global view," explains front man Hector. "If I could sing in other languages, I would. Maybe there'll be a song in French on the next record."

After playing with bands such as Fear, Total Chaos, US Bombs, and Dee Dee Ramone, Los Dryheavers have released their first full-length on Petaluma's Pandacide Records. Showcasing their direct style of punk, the CD is 22 minutes of rock, mirroring their "no bullmake" approach to live performance. The songs themselves are a marriage of AC/DC style hard rock and Ramones-esque punk, wah-wah guitars and driving rhythms that carry the album's thirteen songs forward propulsively.

Songs like "No Soy Pocho" highlights the band's marriage of punk and politics, a denouncement of the derogatory term "pocho," commonly applied to Mexican-Americans considered too assimilated by more separatist Mexican-Americans. Other songs like "Drink To Get Fucked Up" and "Rugburn Alley" show off a more playful side to the band. Like their idols the Clash, Los Dryheavers know that while there's a time for politics and there's a time for punk, there's always time for rock and roll.