State your name and what band do you play in??? My name is Jonathan and I do vocals in Madrugado. I’m Jordy and I play drums. I’m Marcus and I play bass. I’m Alex and I play guitar.
How did you guys come up with the name?
I transitioned from working part time to working shitty full time early morning jobs around the age of 19 once I realized school wasn’t for me. I’d always hear “ya para trabajar en la madrugada” I don’t know why that always stuck with me but being Mexican and all of us being Mexican working basic working class jobs. I just replaced the “A” in Madrugada with an “O” and that was how I got Madrugado. I just thought it was appropriate to describe us and also sounded cool and heavy. - Jonathan
how did you get into punk????
I used to listen to nu-metal in elementary cause my homie Fernie and his older brother Abe would always play it around me. Eventually I discovered AFI through music videos on MTV and started looking up similar artists through LimeWire and myspace. A few years later I found out about other hardcore/punk bands through skate videos and tony hawk games - Jonathan
I got into punk and power violence music after getting over hardcore bands and the hardcore scene. I think the first punk band I got into was Crime then I found Despise You and everything went downhill from there. - Jordy
I got into hardcore and metal first but seeing local bands play, they’d usually have a punk or PV band play. Of course once liking, seeing, or even hearing about a band I go through the rabbit whole of who they played with and all that. - Marcus
what is the line up???
Alex - Guitar
Marcus - Bass
Jonathan- Vocals
Jordy - Drums
how Did Madrugado start as a band??
It’s a funny story, so one night we were all partying at one of our favorite bars called Livewire for Johnny's birthday and he reaches over to me drunk as fuck and said we should start a punk band. I thought this homie was just drunk and just messing around, but the next morning he texted me saying he was really being honest and to hit up my homie marcus who plays bass. Then I hit up Alex for guitar and that’s basically it. Drunk talk turned into reality. - Jordy
Basically what Jordy said. Madrugado started out of sheer need. My idea was to just play fast and heavy as fuck music. There really isn’t too many fast hardcore bands in San Diego even though we have a history with powerviolence dating back to the 90’s with bands coming through to the Che and playing all around SD. Shout out 760 legends Crossed out. I’m a huge powerviolence fan so I wanted to bring that style back and hopefully encourage others if interested in PV, to start up their own bands . I got tired of always having to bust a mission to either LA or TJ for shows and wanted to try to get something going on over here. Once covid is over with, we
definitely want to try to book more out of town bands and work with other locals to book sick ass shows. - Jonathan
what's the influences in the band? musically: despise you, cave state, dystopia, Sordo, rudimentary peni, no comment, crossed out, infest, no tolerance, smut, sex prisoner, negative approach, sheer terror, just any band that we look up to.
overall influences: lowriders, Chicano art and culture, myspace art, oldies, nu-metal, Memphis rap, depression, nihilism, social justice, animal liberation, anti- capitalism, anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti ALL bigotry. fuck cops, fuck trump, destroy the school to prison pipeline and BLACK LIVES MATTER!
what's the best show you ever played??? That’s a tough once but we’re going to have to go with our most recent ones. Regional justice center at the Che cause it was cool playing with all fast locals and the show popped off! Lycanthro Pub in Tijuana was really fun ,it was our first time playing out there and the rec center is always a good time too.
any releases coming out???? Covid has gotten in the way of being able to write any new music but we already have some ideas for some new tracks. We just released a new tape “Chained Down” through Practiced Hatred Records and Salsa Verde Fanzine. Available on all streaming platforms too!
any shout out????? practiced hatred, salsa verde, road to ruins los Angeles, the rec center, bad works screen printing, standards record store, the Che café, ground zero, shadieboy, tourist, headstone, bobxross, all beat up, Hong Kong fuck you, chafa, blood stained concrete, violencia, depraved, terror suspect, scalp, heckdorlan, up for the underground, ExNxD, balacera, every band we’ve played with, the homies, anyone that has booked us and supported us along the way.
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