Kinky: A Career in Subversion on Both Sides of the Border

"If you want to party after the show, stop by the Kinky tour bus," Wayne Coyne, lead singer of the Flaming Lips, said about the band almost every night during Kinky's inaugural United States tour. Considering the Mexican band's battered tour bus door, it is a statement funnier in retrospect, but Cohen spoke with the knowledge that we all know now: Kinky will be the biggest and most influential band out of Monterrey's Avanzada Regia movement.

A Kinky show is like no other: sweaty, fast, dirty, fun. Part rave, part punk show, part mariachi quinceañera, their live show sees Berlin, raises Ibiza, and then goes all in on Tijuana. It is the ultimate hybrid of electronic and live.

Cloaked under palm trees, Kinky's new home base in Los Angeles is just a stone's throw from the Beverly Center. Far away from their North Mexican roots, they reside in an oasis among $7.00 coffee shops and valet retail establishments. On a February afternoon, we chatted with keyboardist Ulises Lozano and guitarist Carlos Chairez.

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