La Búsqueda De La Música Mexicana: Part 1 [Idolator Goes To Mexico]

Recently the New York Times ran a feature about working-class Mexican immigrants using their cell phones rather than iTunes to buy and listen to music, which, as you can imagine, has sent both music and telecommunications types into a tizzy. The poster children of this new era of regional Mexican cell phone music are the members of Los Pikadientes de Caborca, a ragtag group of musicians from rural Sonora whose song "La Cumbia del Río" went viral via cell phones and eventually landed them a re...

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