time). In 1991, on their first U.S. tour, they played with groups like INXS, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Sonic Youth, Madness, Faith No More and Jane's Addiction. By 1992, they were often compared to other great Latin American bands like Mano Negra and Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. Throughout their career, La Maldita Vecindad has remained a creative force. It has also managed to create unique covers of songs by artists from strikingly different genres, like Los Tigres del Norte, Armando Manzanero and Juan Gabriel. Their newest album, Circular colectivo, (Nacional Records 2010) maintains much of the ska/punk energy, with a contemporary sound. The lyrics talk about the crisis that Mexican society faces in a rapidly changing global economy and pays tribute to Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Ernest Ranglin. The production by San Francisco-based Greg Landau (Susana Baca, Patato Valdez, Quetzal) and Hector "Hecdog" Perez, has helped the band to craft a new path in Mexican music. The album features two cameos by Cuban pianist Omar Sosa. Eulalio Cervantes Galarza, better known as Sax, died at the age of 52 after contracting COVID-19 in March 2021. The name In Mexico City, vecindad (literally meaning "neighborhood") refers to residential constructions that were built at the end of the nineteenth and at the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Still inhabited today, these residential areas share one or more large patios and common areas such as bathrooms and laundry facilities, basically because the rented rooms do not have them. The more patios a vecindad has, the more populated these buildings are and therefore the poorer it tends to be. The name "and the children of the fifth patio" has an interesting history. There's a Mexican movie from 1950, called "The Fifth Patio" due to it narrating the history of very poor families living in a fifth patio in a vecindad in Mexico City Downtown. In the twentieth century there was a vecindad located in the Santa María La Ribera suburb, the front door of which reminded a lot of the front door of that movie's vecindad, and people in the neighborhood started to call that vecindad "The Fifth Patio". Most of the band members were born and raised in that vecindad, in Santa María La Ribera, Mexico City. Members Lineup Rolando Rocco Ortega: vocals Arturo Reyes Tiky Hagen : guitars (1985–1988) Enrique Pato Montes: guitars (1988-present) Aldo Acuña: bass (1987-present) José Luis Paredes Pacho: drums