Regional Mexican music is having a moment. Artists like Peso Pluma have hit the Top 10 of the Billboard charts in recent years. Peso Pluma sings corridos, a type of Mexican traditional music which has ...

Scripps News' Meg Hilling sits down with professors and music experts to dig into the history of these songs and the future of the genre. For Grupo Frontera, social media has served as the driving ...

Corridos is a genre that has been around for generations. Now, it's hitting the charts in a new style, inspiring bands in New Mexico. "Corridos tumbados changed up the whole Mexican music." Corridos ...

Legado 7’s lead singer Alex Guerra noticed that the vibe at his band’s concerts changed as their subgenre of Mexican regional music, the stoner-friendly corridos verdes, began to rise in popularity.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday she has a plan to reduce the popularity of “narco corridos,” a musical genre often linked to drug cartel violence. Sheinbaum vowed ...

Peso Pluma isn’t letting an injury slow him down. The Mexican superstar, who is leading a new wave of corridos artists on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border, suffered a foot fracture during his ...

The trap-infused spin on the traditional Mexican folk song known as corridos tumbados has become one of the biggest genres of the year on a global level. And a large part of that success is due to the ...

In “Ch y la Pizza,” a 2022 collaboration between Mexican corrido tumbado star Natanael Cano and Fuerza Regida, the California-bred música Mexicana group, hidden meanings abound. In one verse, the song ...

Apollo Frequencies is a series exploring sounds that seem to come from another world. The premise was simple and tongue in cheek: “Let’s make the first corrido about doing K.” The idea wasn’t entirely ...

Luis R. Conriquez is tapping the best of the best on the fourth edition of his Corridos Bélicos albums. On Wednesday, the Mexican singer revealed the track list for Corridos Bélicos Vol. IV, out Jan.

The norteño icons sing and speak uncensored. By Leila Cobo Chief Content Officer Latin/Español, Billboard As the debate over narcocorridos heats up, the original masters of the genre, Los Tigres del ...

His image can be found on T-shirts at California markets, and fans still listen to his raspy voice singing the corridos, or Mexican ballads, that made Chalino Sánchez famous. Decades after he was ...