Pistolera

MANAGEMENT Chris Hardin
Hardin Entertainment
2615 W. Magnolia Blvd., #106 • Burbank, CA 91505,
818-557-7566,
chris@hardinentertainment.com
El Desierto y La Ciudad, the third studio album by the highly regarded New York City–based Pistolera, represents a daring departure from the band's previous releases—conceptually, musically, lyrically, and spiritually. Mexican-American band leader and songwriter Sandra Velasquez, whose previous two albums have slyly hinted at her full artistic vision, now displays the wide scope of her songwriting capabilities and a willingness to push her band's sound beyond the dance floor.
El Desierto y La Ciudad's rich sonic palette encompasses rock, Latin, dance, and balladic styles, with evocative lyrics and musical interludes that capture the spirit of the two very different landscapes. It finds the band traveling to new musical destinations, where polkas cohabit with cumbias, waltzes are smitten with dancehall, ballads find refuge in electronica, and rumbas head to the dance floor hand in hand with tejano rhythms. Longtime Pistolera fans will be surprised and delighted by El Desierto y La Ciudad. New followers will discover a vital new musical presence. Everyone will hear new details in each song, every time.



"That inventive sense of arrangement, combined with great songwriting, elevates El Desierto y la Ciudad above and beyond its traditional source material. The result is a major step forward for a songwriter and a band that deserves wider recognition. With this album, Pistolera just might get it."-NPR



"Pistolera melds the sass of indie rock with traditional Latin sounds to create compelling pop melodies, all of it sung entirely in Spanish." -Billboard Magazine



".a foot-stomping sound that's one part ranchera and one part indie-pop."
-The New Yorker



"Stand back, shoegazers and head-bobbers: Pistolera is taking the famously apolitical indie-rock scene by storm. The Brooklyn-based, four-piece rock band puts on a show that feels like an outdoor Latin music festival smack dab in the middle of a heated immigration rally.
-Mother Jones



"Pistolera es fuerte. Pistolera es peligrosa. Pistolera es roquerota y rancherota a la vez. El cuarteto neoyorquino.bien podría estar tocando toda la noche en una cantina de mala muerte o bien podría convertirse en la banda más popular del canal MTV."
- San Diego Union Tribune, Enlace
"Pistolera revoluciona la escena indie de Nueva York. En menos de una año y medio este cuarteto ha transcendido las barreras del lenguaje con su musica." - El Diario