Latin punk rock band CARACAS. If the White Stripes married a Mariachi band. Kinda.

Fairy Dust Mofo - CARACAS (Live)

Get To The Room - CARACAS (Live)

Move Out - CARACAS (Live)

CARACAS (http://www.caracastheband.com) is a two-piece Latin punk rock band from Vancouver, Canada, created by the brothers Javier and Victor Badillo. They previously toured and recorded with the seminal Malaysian punk rock band LyMe (http://myspace.com/lymemusic) and popular west coast gypsy latin group Kola Collective (http://www.kolacollective.com).

Get to the Room

Our single from our upcoming 2016 EP "Bring on the Playtime", with a full new sound from your favorite Latin party punks!

released November 25, 2015
On this track:

Javier Badillo (Vocals / Percussion)
Victor Badillo (Guitar / Vocals)
Heather Anderson (Trumpet / Percussion / Vocals)
Luis Garzon (Bass / Vocals)
Enmanuel Moreno (Drums / Congas)
Greg Samek (Percussion)

Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Dylan Ellis.
Recorded at Fader Mountain/The Farm and DeVille Studios.
Vancouver, Canada. 

Cover photos by the awesome Paul Joseph: www.pauljosephphoto.com

Publishing (SOCAN, ASCAP, BMI) by
Dead Level / Dead Straight Records
vancouverrecords@yahoo.com

Contact the band:
caracastheband@gmail.com

Bring On The Playtime (2016)

We took some of our most popular songs from the past five years and turned them on their head for our 3rd studio record - showcasing our evolution from a two-piece garage band to a five-piece Latin party rock machine!

released April 1, 2016

On this EP:

Javier Badillo (Vocals / Percussion)
Victor Badillo (Guitar / Vocals)
Heather Anderson (Trumpet / Percussion / Vocals)
Luis Garzon (Bass / Vocals)
Enmanuel Moreno (Drums / Congas)
Greg Samek (Percussion)

Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Dylan Ellis.
Recorded at Fader Mountain/The Farm and DeVille Studios.
Vancouver, Canada.

Cover photos by the awesome Paul Joseph: www.pauljosephphoto.com

Publishing (SOCAN, ASCAP, BMI) by
Dead Level / Dead Straight Records
vancouverrecords@yahoo.com

Contact the band:
caracastheband@gmail.com 

Pond Of Dreams - Caracas

Running - Caracas

Bring On The Playtime - Caracas

Fairy Dust Mofo - Caracas

Caracas second studio recording is a 3 song EP titled Tambores y Tanques, a play on words in both Spanish and English, meaning Oil Tankers, Oil Drums, War Tanks and Percussive Drums! 

Contact the band at caracastheband@gmail.com

Produced and Engineered by Aidan Rantoul at District 4 Studios, Vancouver. 
Mastered by Allan Levy.

Official Release date, August 2013.
Publishing (SOCAN / BMI / ASCAP) by Dead Straight / Dead Level Records, Vancouver. info: VancouverRecords@yahoo.com

Caracas - Bring on the Playtime

Caracas - Pond Of Dreams

Started in 2011 by brothers Javier and Victor Badillo, Caracas plays Latin-influenced punk rock that has been compared with the Talking Heads, Santana, Gogol Bordello and Pixies, among many others.

Their lyrics share the immigrant experience and the Venezuelan struggle, delivered in big party anthems and intimate "sonadas" (Latin waltzes) on a Cuatro guitar (a Venezuelan ukelele), all adding up to a thoroughly entertaining live performance. 

Caracas new EP "Bring on the Playtime" (Spring 2016) was produced by South African-Canadian producer Dylan Ellis (Hokum, Rami Lakkis), and was recorded in Vancouver's iconic Fader Mountain / The Farm studios and at DeVille Studios, tucked in a small East Vancouver neighborhood. The songs take the band's most popular tunes from the past five years and turns them on their head, showcasing the evolution of Caracas from a two-piece garage band to a five-piece Latin rock party machine!

A music video for their new single "Bring on the Playtime" (2016) directed by Shaun Walford is now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fKiRCvYYHs

Their single "Bring on the Playtime" is the theme song for the new microbrewery doc webseries "Vancouver On Tap" (2016). A number of their songs are featured in the independent movies "The Cover-Up" (2013) and "Naked Night Bike" (2014). 

Caracas performed on Vancouver's Shaw TV Channel 4 for "Canadian Sound Arts Therapy Show", a community-driven show. The episode originally aired in the spring of 2015.

In June 2015, Caracas was invited to perform on the World Beat Stage of the 27th Annual Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival, the largest of its kind in North America!

Caracas is an active member of SOCAN, ASCAP and BMI, managed by Vancouver-based Dead Straight Music Publishing.


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