Los Cogelones at Ruins

Combining a unique mix of punk rock, Aztec instruments and indigenous lyrics, Mexico City band Los Cogelones are using music to save their cultural heritage. Punk band, Los Cogelones (roughly translates as The Fuckers) formed in 2008 when four brothers Marco Antonio, Víctor Hugo, José Alberto and Jesús Adrián Sandoval decided – with tongues firmly in their cheeks – that they wanted a life of “sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll” However, what began as ‘just four brothers jamming together” started to take on a momentum all of its own – especially when they fused their love of punk and their passion for keeping indigenous Mexican tradition alive and relevant for today’s generation. The brothers, wearing traditional Aztec outfits, thrash out their songs mixing electric guitars and the fury of punk with traditional instruments such as the huéhuetl (a tube-shaped drum used by the Mayans) and sing in a combination of Spanish and the indigenous Nahuatl language.

– punktuationmag.com