Mariachi El Bronx is the fourth studio album by the Los Angeles rock band The Bronx, released on September 1, 2009 through Swami Records in the United States and Wichita Recordings in the United Kingdom. It marks a divergence from the band’s usual hardcore punk and hard rock sound in favor of a mariachialter ego persona “Mariachi El Bronx”, and have performed under both identities concurrently. style. To promote and perform the album the band adopted the

The Bronx first expressed intentions to record in a mariachi style in April 2007, when they announced plans to record both a mariachi album and a punk rock However, they did not enter the recording studio until March 2008, by which time they planned to release the mariachi album before the end of the summer. Mariachi El Bronx was recorded in March 2008 at Brandos Paradise in San Gabriel, California with producer and engineer John Avila, who also played charango, sang backing vocals, and mixed the album with the band. album in short succession, hoping to release the former before the end of that summer.