With Revés/Yosoy (1999), Café Tacuba (by far the best Mexican rock group ever) got away with murder. The risky double album didn’t sell shit but it deservedly won a Latin Grammy and was at the top of ...

Playing the right room is everything – the right band in the wrong venue can be disastrous. That’s true anywhere you go but especially so in Orange County, where there are only so many midsize venues ...

The alt-Latin rock group Cafe Tacuba wouldn’t seem to be big on anniversaries. Its lead singer goes by a series of nicknames, the quartet often favors chicken-head and lucha libre masks, and its name ...

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Cafe Tacuba’s Quique Rangel has heard the comparisons before. His Mexico City quartet has been called the rock en espanol answer to Radiohead. That’s critical shorthand for “experimental,” ...

Cafe Tacuba is the best Spanish-language rock band on the planet–I can’t think of too many better performing in any language. They’re touring with drummer Luis Ledezma. The terrific Monterrey, Mexico, ...

Last October Cafe Tacuba celebrated its 15th anniversary with a pair of Mexico City concerts that were recorded for the new Un viaje (Universal Latino). An energetic and stylish testament to the ...