Revisiting and Ranking The Bronx’s 6 Albums
It’s not often that a band can establish themselves as one of the hardest punk bands around, lyrically and stylistically, and then go on to create 3 albums worth of Mariachi music under the name “Mariachi El Bronx”. As outlandish as that sounds, that’s exactly what the guys in The Bronx did.
The LA band was originally formed in 2002 by Matt Caughthran on vocals, Joby Ford on guitars, Jorma Vik on drums, and James Tweedy on bass. Brad Megers took over on bass in 2007 while Vik was switched out with David Hidalgo Jr. and Joey Castillo in 2018.
If you like punk music that isn’t afraid to get down and dirty while paying noticeable homage to the 80s bands that inspired them, you’ll very likely be enraptured with the band’s discography. Check them out they’re a shot of adrenaline.
6. V (2017)
On The Bronx’s 5th outing, they retain many of the elements that originally gained the group a fanbase. Sound-wise, it’s somewhat a combination of the first records in production, but melodically more like III and IV. Although it has a lot of bright spots, compared to other records, V slightly misses the mark. The heavy distortion on…
