(Mexico – Latin/Ska/Hip Hop)

Los de Abajo is one of the more successful groups to emerge from Mexico City's fertile punk underground in recent years. The group calls its unique sound "tropipunk"—a breakneck collision of punk, ska, cumbia and Mexican regional styles, leavened with a dose of agitprop. The band lifted its name from Mariano Azuela's classic novel of the Mexican revolution, and it translates as "those from below"—a moniker they happily live up to with their calls for social justice and support for the Zapatista rebels and other indigenous rights causes.