Banda music is the soundtrack of modern Mexico, with its thumping polka beat and trumpets blasting everywhere from rural fairs to working-class Mexico City weddings. And it's increasingly made in ...

As I say, the label for that music is Afro-Caribbean. But this music also became very Mexican and it spawned its own varieties of stuff in Mexico,” he said.

Tracking the music of MexicoWhile the first film captured the band’s relationships with mariachi artists in the central Pacific coast Mexican state of Jalisco, “Fandango” documents a two ...

Teatro Paraguas has announced '¡Viva México! The Music, Dance, and Poetry of México,' a spectacular cultural event ...

"My dad worked in norteño music for many years; he was knowledgeable and loved norteño music," Cano's son, Servando Cano Jr., now president of SERCA Live, tells Billboard. "When we launched it, we ...

Narcocorridos — or drug ballads — are more popular than ever in Mexico, where a generation that came of age during the drug war has embraced songs that recount both the spoils and the ...

He joined the Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan, Mexico’s top ensemble, in 1940, when the music was featured almost daily on the radio.

According to music industry studies, more than 50,000 people make their living in Mexico selling pirated music alone. That's a lot of individual complaints to make, and a lot of arrests.

In the middle of a 40-hour work week, a trip to Mexico sounds pretty sweet. Certain country songs can take you there -- at least for a few minutes.

People shop for pirated music CDs in downtown Mexico City, Mexico on June 27, 2006. The pirate albums sell for 20 pesos, just under $2 apiece, about one-tenth of the in-store price. Marco Ugarte / AP ...