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Thursday, August 11th, 2011

8:00pm

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Tijuana comes to the Shakedown! Well, not entirely true. Pinata Protest is from Tejas. Pinatas, hot dog carts, carne asada & accordion powered Punk y Roll! Donkey Show? What do you get when you meld “fast/loud rules” with the Tex-Mex accordion? Piñata Protest and their invigorating and pointed “punk rock-y-roll.” The band “forcefully take the raw essence of conjunto into warp-speed tempos and punky aggression,” raves the San Antonio Current, which rates them as “one of the most original forces on the local music scene.” And now with their national debut album on Saustex Records, Plethora, Piñata Protest take their infectious and bracing South Texas slamdance to the rest of America and the planet at large. The band bristles with the zest and sheer fun to be enjoyed in a sound that has been dubbed “amphetamine norteño,” “ranchero punk” and “puro pedo [no bullshit] punk rock” while also targeting the adversities and emptiness of modern life with dead-eyed aim. As the San Antonio Current observes, “Piñata Protest’s Álvaro Del Norte is doing for the accordion what the Dropkick Murphys do for the bagpipes, playing what’s often considered an embarrassing grandpa-music relic with youthful angst and energy, expanding the punk-rock template beyond London and NYC.”