Mexican Rock
Mexican rock is rock music made in Mexico, mostly sung in Spanish, from early rock and roll covers to today's alternative bands.
It began in the late 1950s with bands translating US hits, then developed its own voice in the 1960s and 1970s. After the 1971 Avándaro festival the government pushed rock out of mainstream venues and media for years, and the scene returned strongly in the late 1980s. Many bands mix rock with Mexican folk styles, ska or electronic music, which gives it a different flavor from Argentine or Spanish rock.
Artists it is known for: Caifanes, Café Tacvba, Maná, El Tri.
- Family
- Latin
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Mexico, late 1950s
- Also called
- rock mexicano
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,700 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have mexican rock among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Mexican Rock artists
Enjambre
Zoé
Los Enanitos Verdes
Maná
Caifanes
Hombres G
León Larregui
Café Tacvba
Molotov
Mägo de OzThe mexican rock artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.