![]() Inside the booklet are a couple introductory essays, lyrics in Spanish and English, and dozens of reproduced show flyers. ![]() It also includes a mass of stapled newsprint so thickly covered in cheap, finger-staining ink that it’s less black-and-white and more black-and-gray. Last year venerable punk zine Maximum Rocknroll released Doble LP Discografia, which compiles all 66 Los Crudos songs on two LPs. After the Beat Kitchen screening, Los Crudos headline back-to-back sold-out shows at 6:30 and 10:30 PM. To celebrate the film’s release, he’ll screen it the night of Friday, March 25, at the Siskel Center and the afternoon of Saturday, March 26, at the Beat Kitchen. So of course they appear in No Delusions, a long-in-the-works Chicago hardcore documentary by Steven Cergizan, who’s been going to shows in town since the early 2000s. Los Crudos’ music has continued to reverberate since their breakup, and their legacy looms so large that even hyperbole doesn’t do it justice. When Los Crudos released music (on Sorrondeguy’s Lengua Armada label), the packaging included English translations of the words. (In 1998, after Los Crudos broke up, Sorrondeguy cofounded self-proclaimed queercore band Limp Wrist, who have a new album in the works.) He sang in Spanish, but not because Spanish speakers were the only people he wanted to reach-onstage he’d often spell out his message in English between songs, and at early shows the band handed out lyric sheets. He excoriated spineless bureaucrats and tyrannical governments here and in Latin America he denounced racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, and even the homogeneity of the hardcore scene he railed against poverty, gentrification, and dehumanizing immigration policies. Magnetic front man Martin Sorrondeguy wrote almost all of Los Crudos’ confrontational lyrics, and he belted them out in a voice pulsing with heart. Initially active from 1991 till ’98 and sporadically reunited since 2006, the Pilsen four-piece wielded hardcore’s lunging rhythms, ricocheting guitars, and furious battle cries on behalf of the downtrodden and disenfranchised, whether close to home or around the world-they spoke not only to the Latino population in Pilsen and to the broader punk community but also to the poor, people of color, immigrants, and sexual minorities everywhere. You can’t tell the story of Chicago hardcore and punk without talking about Los Crudos. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Click here to join the Reader Membership Community today! Close
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