Titus writes:
I’m pretty sure that this is the first Mexican all girl band that I have covered, but their work has inspired me, none more so than the most recent two albums. They hail from Monterrey (one extra ‘r’ than the same sounding place in California), which is the capital of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The band membership is similar in some ways to my beloved Castellows – they are three sisters – but that’s where the similarity ends. The Castellows play their own blend of modern country music, whereas The Warning are an alternative rock band. The band members are the Villarreal Velez sisters Daniela, who sings and plays guitar & piano; Paulina, who sings and plays drums & piano; and Alejandra, who provides backing vocals and plays bass guitar & piano. They tend to use their shortened names of Dany, Pau & Ale, and in that respective order, they are 25,23 & 20 years’ old.
From a very early age the sisters, via their own and their parents’ passion, learnt to play instruments and regularly played the video game ‘Rock Band’. Their big break came when at ages 9 through 14, when they performed Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’, and posted the video on You Tube – this went viral, with in excess of 26 million views. Metallica’s Kirk Hammett praised Pau, saying “The drummer kicks maximum ass”. Following this success, the sisters decided to seek a record deal and develop their own songs. Via a ‘GoFundMe’ appeal, they produced a six track EP ‘Escape the mind’, and in 2015 appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. DeGeneres and the Target Corporation donated $10,000 each for the band to attend a five week training programme at the Berklee College of Music. The band released two albums in the late 2010’s called ‘XXI Century Blood’ and ‘Queen of the Murder Scene’, plus in 2022 a third album ‘Error’ was finally released after delays relating to the Covid pandemic.
There are so many awards nowadays, not just in music either. Notably however, the band won an MTV award in 2024 for their single ‘Automatic Sun’ which was innovating, and cleverly timed to coincide with that year’s Solar Eclipse. At the Latin Grammy Awards in 2024 The Warning won the Best Rock Song (Que Mas Quieres), and completed an Award hat-trick, by winning Best Rock Album of 2024 for their fourth LP ‘Keep Me Fed’ at the Folk N Rock Awards. This year, they were nominated for Group of the Year at the Lo Nuestro Awards and won this too.
I mentioned their fourth studio album, ‘Keep me Fed’ earlier on and this comprised of six previously recorded singles, and six new tracks. Despite the LP only having been released a month earlier, MTV Push featured them as their Artists of the Month. For those of you who read my blog featuring the French Guitarist & Vocalist Laura Cox, I mentioned that she appeared at the Pol’and Festival, and The Warning also included this festival on their tour of Europe. For the Spring of 2025, the band announced extra multiple locations for the ‘Keep me Fed’ tour, in their home country of Mexico plus in Latin America and Europe. It is from this album, that I have requested Lex to play the track SICK, which can be found here.