Babasónicos is an Argentine music band, formed in the early 1990s along with others such as Peligrosos Gorriones and Los Brujos. // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ...
The lead singer Adrián Rodríguez and the keyboardist Diego Tuñón initially decided to create a "new wave" style, which wouldn't follow the established Argentine music. The drummer Diego Castellano (Panza), Adrián's brother Diego Rodríguez (guitarist and lead singer), Mariano Domínguez as guitarist, and Gabriel Manelli as bassist are the first and last formation of the band. During some years, DJ Peggyn played with them, but he finally was expelled from the band because, as Adrián said, "No lo necesitábamos más y lo rajamos" ("We no longer needed him, and we sacked him").
Although the band has featured many styles throughout its various albums, after recording Jessico (2001), their recording label Dargelos Inc. decided to forget their past and begin a new career as a typical pop band. Some believe this to be a contradiction with their original tenets, and that Babasónicos has turned into a mainstream marketable band. Jessico is the fifth album by Argentine rock group Babasónicos. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey 2001 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Their last record, Infame (2003), seems to be further evidence of their attempt to reach a broader audience at the expense of the band's originality and spunk. Infame is the sixth album by Argentine rock group Babasónicos. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
It was the fifth show Babasonicos played in a row, getting in and out of airplanes to cover the distance between San Diego and Tucson and Tijuana and Hermosillo, Mexico before the last gig of the year in Miami.
To Babasonicos' credit, it must be said that even without radio, print, or posters to promote the show, more than a hundred vampirelike rockers showed up at midnight on a cold Monday to see firsthand why everybody's talking about this band.
For the last two years Babasonicos has been one of the few active bands in the Argentine market, and the loyal 2000 soldiers of the early alternative years have become surrounded by a bigger wave of fans.
Babasonicos is so ready to finally cross over into larger markets that singer Adrián "Dárgelos" Rodríguez even writes it in one of the fourteen magnificent new tracks that compose Anoche, the eighth release of the Argentine rock band.
Their edgy rock sound is even more urgent now than in the previous two albums, though Jessico (2001) and Infame (2004) also represent a new era in Babasonicos' fourteen-year run since the release of Pasto in 1992.
In its past three albums, the group has evolved from alt-band to mainstream act; fortunately its members have evolved in the music-making process and seem to have mastered the art of recording catchy songs containing irresistible melodies and hard-core doses of cynicism in the lyrics.
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