Piñata Protest

Piñata Protest is an accordion powered punk rock band with a delicious mix of punk, Tex-Mex, ska, beer, norteño, garage, hardcore, and what ever else those cochinos decide to put in the burrito.

The band played their first show in January of 2006 on a sidewalk in front of the now long gone Snaps Skate Shop in the west side of San Antonio. The show which was originally planned to be held inside the shop was shut down by the police not long after starting. Victor, álvaro, and Manuel (being the rebels that they were) courageously defied the policia and played unplugged for the remaining crowd that circled around them that night. Their mamadas have never stopped since...

The band began with álvaro who met Manuel through a friend who replied to a musician's ad in the local paper. Victor who was at the time drummer for Mal Hecho en San Quilmas was asked to join the band after watching him play at an earlier Snaps show. Elliott who was at the time playing bass for The Usual Suspects, joined after Piñata Protest's second show at The Wiggle Room where they met. Early in 2008 Victor left the band and JJ- a friend of the band, was asked to play drums and soon combined super powers with the rest of the band. A little more than two years after Elliott joined, Elliott left the band in the summer of 2008. Omar from Mckinney Tx, now plays bass for the band.

Among their other pendejadas, the band has released a self-titled 10 track EP, a music video, has shared the stage with bands like Sin Orden, Eske, Hit Me Back, Bruise Violet, at Chicago's Latino Fest in 2007, with performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña, with Texas bands like Los Skarnales, Snow Byrd, The Lower Class Brats, Polka Madre, The Sweethearts, Girl In A Coma, has had live performances on San Antonio's KYSM radio station, and of course not to forget, has played for your drunk uncle Gordo at his 45th cumpleaños backyard BBQ.