100 Records

This is a tough, catchy jam called “Teenage Thugs” that has really been stuck in my head. On it you can hear a lot of early punk rock influences. Proto-pop-punk band Cabezas Cordades (Cut Off Heads) came blistering out of Tijuana in the late ’80s led by the activist rants of the lead singer Raul Velasquez who claimed a blood connection to the Zapatistas and Sandinistas, among other oppressed people around the globe. LA hardcore band Suicidal Tendencies brought them on a brief tour that garnered the Cabezas a small deal with Mexican Metropolis Records. Quickly appeared “Teen Age Thugs,” a prescient tune about the horrors of child gangsters, as well as “Gangster Funeral,” “Mule Blues,” and “Xenophobes.” There first two records came with an inserted map of the best and safest route for immigrants to cross the Sonoran Desert. Included on the B-side was a visceral spoken-word repudiation of the US and Mexican government by Velasquez.This is a tough, catchy jam called “Teenage Thugs” that has really been stuck in my head. On it you can hear a lot of early punk rock influences. Proto-pop-punk band Cabezas Cordades (Cut Off Heads) came blistering out of Tijuana in the late ’80s led by the activist rants of the lead singer Raul Velasquez who claimed a blood connection to the Zapatistas and Sandinistas, among other oppressed people around the globe. LA hardcore band Suicidal Tendencies brought them on a brief tour that garnered the Cabezas a small deal with Mexican Metropolis Records. Quickly appeared “Teen Age Thugs,” a prescient tune about the horrors of child gangsters, as well as “Gangster Funeral,” “Mule Blues,” and “Xenophobes.” There first two records came with an inserted map of the best and safest route for immigrants to cross the Sonoran Desert. Included on the B-side was a visceral spoken-word repudiation of the US and Mexican government by Velasquez.

Cabezas Cordada (Cut Off Heads) came blistering out of Tijuana in the late ’80s led by the activist rants of the lead singer Raul Velasquez who claimed a blood connection to the Zapatistas and Sandinistas, among other oppressed people around the globe. LA hardcore band Suicidal Tendencies brought them on a brief tour that garnered the Cabezas a small deal with Mexican Metropolis Records. Quickly appeared “Teen Age Thugs,” a prescient tune about the horrors of child gangsters, as well as “Gangster Funeral,” “Mule Blues,” and “Xenophobes.” There first two records came with an inserted map of the best and safest route for immigrants to cross the Sonoran Desert. Included on the B-side was a visceral spoken-word repudiation of the US and Mexican government by Velasquez.
Though Velesquez walked a righteous path, his bandmates fell into heroin use and crime. Despite their inability to contribute musically, he was unable to give up on them. As he said in an interview, “to give up on my musical brothers is to contradict everything I stand for.” His musical warnings ultimately served as a prophecy for the demise of their own creators.

soumeya Albums, Punk