{"id":7532,"date":"2011-10-31T19:34:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T00:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/?p=7532"},"modified":"2011-10-31T19:35:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T00:35:33","slug":"los-desi-kung-fu-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/31\/los-desi-kung-fu-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Desi Kung Fu Monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s #MusicMonday comes from Tijuana, Mexico via a tip from my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/sashali\">Sasha<\/a>. I&#8217;m surprised I&#8217;ve never heard of them, especially given that the band opened for <strong>Voo Doo Glow Skulls<\/strong> over the years. <a title=\"Wikipedia Site on Los Kung Fu Monkeys\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Kung-Fu_Monkeys\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Los Kung Fu Monkeys<\/strong><\/a> is a ska band w\/ two Pakistani brothers (Hassan and Tarek) that was formed in 1997, has six albums under their belt and has toured with <strong>Vans Warped Tour<\/strong>. AND, they sing bilingually in Spanish and English. Take a listen, what do you think?<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Sj-T0WYQ_tM\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/Sj-T0WYQ_tM<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>To me, the sound is classically Southern Californian ska punk, with a little bit of tequila thrown in. I&#8217;m a sucker for punk covers (<a title=\"Fat Wreck Chords Site\" href=\"http:\/\/fatwreck.com\/band\/index\/16\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Me First and the Gimme Gimmes<\/strong><\/a> anyone?) and am really digging this <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/X4zwRWeytcc\">Boys Don&#8217;t Cry<\/a><\/strong> cover. <a title=\"Facebook Site\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Los-Kung-Fu-Monkeys\/310893761151?sk=wall\" target=\"_blank\">According to their facebook<\/a>, they are working on their latest demo and have an international tour planned for early 2012. Follow<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafeina-riotradio.com\/loskfm\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> Los Kung Fu Monkeys<\/strong><\/a> here on <a title=\"They Are on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Los-Kung-Fu-Monkeys\/310893761151?sk=wall\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/loskfm\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Also, I do realize there are South Asian diaspora migration stories of every kind, and I&#8217;m really curious as to how the Pakistani brothers ended up in Tijuana, Mexico. Is there a big South Asian population in Mexico? Anyone know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s #MusicMonday comes from Tijuana, Mexico via a tip from my friend Sasha. I&#8217;m surprised I&#8217;ve never heard of them, especially given that the band opened for Voo Doo Glow Skulls over the years. Los Kung Fu Monkeys is a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/31\/los-desi-kung-fu-monkeys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,13,30],"tags":[107,128,130,131,129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7532"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7532"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7541,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7532\/revisions\/7541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}