Today we’d like to introduce you to Los Ratones Atomicos. They and their team shared their story with us below:
Omar Rosas would post music covers on Instagram and one day Angel Apolinar messaged him saying how he really liked some of the songs Omar covered and if he would be down to meet up and jam out one day. So they ended up meeting at angels house and jammed out for a few hours, and they immediately felt like something was there, so they formed the band shortly after on December 2020 (The name of the band was inspired by Angels dog, Taco, a chihuahua who reminded him of a rat). They were a two-piece until Isaac Vasquez joined the band later on during July 2021, and since then they’ve been a three-piece playing around SoCal. They started playing lots of house shows at first in order to get their name out… slowly but surely a few others started to hear about LRA and they started getting invited to play in venues all around the OC, LA, and IE county. Their biggest show to date is opening up for Viva Pomona, a music festival being held at the Glasshouse.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
The road hasn’t been entirely smooth. There have been last-minute cancellations of shows, promoters lying and not paying us the amount they promised (sometimes nothing at all), and even some music gear breaking down during our sets, forcing us to shorten our sets. Despite all of it, we love what we do and wouldn’t change anything.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
We make indie/alternative music in both English and Spanish. We decide what language fits best for a certain song, sometimes even singing in both languages for some songs. One of the things that really warms our hearts is when we get people coming up to us at shows saying how much they related to a song we wrote or how much they listen to it when they’re sad or going through something rough. One good example is a song angel wrote called “Ya no me quieres”, a breakup song about learning to accept that someone you’ve loved immensely (or still love) no longer loves you and the struggle of trying to get over that. So many people come up to us and say how that song helped them so much through a rough breakup or how they related to certain parts of the song. We love that we can write songs that are so personal and have others relate to that.
Risk taking is a topic that people have widely differing views on – we’d love to hear your thoughts.
We genuinely believe that you have to take risks every once in a while, whether it’s in your personal, artistic, or business ventures. We believe that without taking risks, growth is close to impossible.
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Album Cover by Beverly Salas (first photo)
