{"id":63732,"date":"2026-05-01T22:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/clave-especial-release-new-ep-afterafter\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:27:27","slug":"clave-especial-release-new-ep-afterafter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/clave-especial-release-new-ep-afterafter\/","title":{"rendered":"Clave Especial Release New EP &#8216;AfterAfter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Mexican-American band&#8217;s new EP features Fuerza Regida, Los Gemelos de Sinaloa, Chino Pacas, and Chuyin<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/clave-especial\/\" id=\"auto-tag_clave-especial\" data-tag=\"clave-especial\">Clave Especial<\/a>\u2018s new EP is an eclectic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/street-mob-records\/\" id=\"auto-tag_street-mob-records\" data-tag=\"street-mob-records\">Street Mob Records<\/a> party. The Mexican-American corrido trio, made up of Alejandro Ahumada, his cousin Leonardo Lomeli, and Rogelio Gonzalez, have released <em>AfterAfter<\/em>, a five-track collection that feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/fuerza-regida-cover-stadium-tour-new-music-1235525473\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/fuerza-regida-cover-stadium-tour-new-music-1235525473\/\">Fuerza Regida<\/a>, Los Gemelos de Sinaloa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/chino-pacas-interview-street-mob-1235533131\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/chino-pacas-interview-street-mob-1235533131\/\">Chino Pacas<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/chino-pacas-interview-street-mob-1235533131\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/chino-pacas-interview-street-mob-1235533131\/\">Chuyin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tEach collaboration drives forward the mission of <em>AfterAfter<\/em> to \u201cbring together artists from diverse regions who share the same creative energy,\u201d according to a press release. Clave Especial hail from Salinas, California while Fuerza Regida rep the sounds coming from Southern California, Chino Pacas brings the flavor of central Mexico, Chuyin, and both Los Gemelos de Sinaloa and Chuyin offer a Sinoloan touch to their corridos. The move to emphasize these regions<strong> <\/strong>\u201creflects how regional Mexican music is being shaped today,\u201d creating a \u201cconstantly evolving sound.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>AfterAfter<\/em> marks Clave Especial\u2019s second EP and first project since the release of their 2025 debut album <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/clave-especial-announces-tour-1235360645\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/clave-especial-announces-tour-1235360645\/\">Mija No Te Asustes<\/a><\/em>, which found them breaking into the regional Mexican music scene in a big way. That album garnered 3.2 billion global streams and was certified platinum in the U.S. The new EP is set to further cement Clave Especial\u2019s staying power; last month, the track with Fuerza Regida \u201cFerarri\u201d debuted in the Top 5 on Spotify\u2019s USA songs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tEven with a new release of music out in the world, Clave Especial are continuing to work on their follow up to <em>Mija No Te Asustes<\/em>. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/clave-especial-new-music-interview-1235533144\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/clave-especial-new-music-interview-1235533144\/\">interview<\/a> for <em>Rolling Stone\u2019s<\/em> Future of Music series, the trio teased their evolving sound. \u201cObviously we are going to still have corridos, but we\u2019re going to be having some new sounds, some new melodies, some new instruments,\u201d Lomeli said. \u201cWe want to keep giving people fresh things, but not without the essence of Clave, because that\u2019s what they like.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/clave-especial-ep-afterafter-street-mob-records-1235556738\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mexican-American band&#8217;s new EP features Fuerza Regida, Los Gemelos de Sinaloa, Chino Pacas, and Chuyin Clave Especial\u2018s new EP is an eclectic Street&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":63733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}