Historic Mexico City rock and counterculture hub closes
Associated PressMEXICO CITY — A line of people dressed in black, flannels and piercings wound in front of a two-story building on one of Mexico City’s main avenues. After lurid reports circulated about a 1971 concert in the town of Avandaro, no large public rock concerts were allowed for about a decade, and rock retreated into tiny venues known as “hoyos funky,” or “funky holes.” The Mexican political system was shaken in 1994 when the Zapatista Indigenous rebels from Chiapas, in southeast Mexico, led a brief armed uprising to demand greater rights. “We did something that nobody was doing.” Soon, the Alicia became one of the very few libertarian, anarchist, self-managed spaces in Mexico City. Abraham “Muñeko” Torres, the frontman of Nana Pancha, one of the most prominent ska bands in Mexico, first played at the Alicia when he was 16 years old. “This place has meant a lot for Mexican rock.” The venue’s name comes from an Italian counterculture radio station from the 1970s, Radio Alice, and Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland.
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