Alfredo Rios, aka El Komander, is the Jay Z of Mexican drug balladeers. He says government pressure, in the form of fines and banned or canceled concerts, is forcing him to think about retirement. El ...

In Mexico, even the president has an opinion on what Natanael Cano, Luis R. Conriquez and others sing. By Natalia Cano In May, local authorities of a famous resort in Cancún, Mexico, banned live ...

The city of Tijuana is refusing to allow three popular musicians who sing violent lyrics about Mexico's drug war to perform at its annual fair. The singers are Alfredo Rios, who goes by the stage name ...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities seeking to ban drug ballads known as “narco-corridos” have levied one of their stiffest punishments yet against the music, fining concert promoters 100,000 pesos ...

Alfredo Ríos, “El Komander”, compuso el tema “Cayó El Chapo”, sobre la captura del narcotraficante, el cual incluirá en su próximo álbum. “Estamos grabando un nuevo disco de corridos y estamos ...

Mexican authorities have levied one of their harshest punishments yet against drug ballads known as "narco-corridos," fining concert promoters 100,000 pesos (almost $8,000) for a weekend performance… ...

Narcocorridos, or “drug ballads”, are songs that soundtrack the world of narcoculutra. Since the Mexican drug war began in 2006, the genre has exploded in popularity and the lyrics have kept pace with ...

It took only a few minutes for Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo to escape from a maximum-security prison in Mexico earlier this week. It took only a few hours for musicians to start uploading songs, ...