{"id":159624,"date":"2023-12-10T11:29:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T15:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/?p=159624"},"modified":"2023-12-10T11:29:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T15:29:47","slug":"return-to-bogotas-rock-al-parque-rock-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/2023\/12\/return-to-bogotas-rock-al-parque-rock-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Bogota&#8217;s Rock Al Parque (Rock the Park)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been over a decade since I attended the big <a href=\"https:\/\/rockalparque.gov.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rock Al Parque<\/a> (Rock the Park) in Bogota, Colombia, but this time, I had backstage access as my pals <a href=\"https:\/\/punkoutlawrecords.com\/artist\/los-suziox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Suziox<\/a>, were headlining the 2nd evening of the show.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m impressed with the organizational skills of the folks who put this on because it&#8217;s three days of shuttling scores of bands from hotels to venue, to crowd control, to so many details. 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It&#8217;s a celebration of all kinds of music but because punk rock is so prevalent in Colombia, punk rock is usually given its proper place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agnosticfront.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agnostic Front<\/a> was the main headliner and I was honored to meet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stigma_nyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vinnie Stigma<\/a> finally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rob-Meets-Vinnie-Stigma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-159652\" src=\"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rob-Meets-Vinnie-Stigma-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rob-Meets-Vinnie-Stigma-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rob-Meets-Vinnie-Stigma-600x454.jpg 600w, https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rob-Meets-Vinnie-Stigma-768x582.jpg 768w, https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rob-Meets-Vinnie-Stigma-1536x1163.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rob-Meets-Vinnie-Stigma.jpg 1722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Playing with Los Suziox this year was <a href=\"https:\/\/remezcla.com\/features\/music\/meet-la-muchacha-colombias-protest-music-advocate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Muchacha<\/a>, an incredibly popular and rising indie protest punk and alternative songwriter and musician who collaborated with Los Suziox and others on the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fvwRmEHh7hc?si=0_XTkD2EN4Yfoxuu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;La Violencia<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed finally meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/la_muchacha_isabel\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Muchacha Isabela<\/a> very much who is the real deal. Check her out when you can.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I was at a bad angle to capture her performance very well, so I&#8217;ll just include some photos as well as Los Suziox&#8217;s performance of &#8220;Armas Silenciosas&#8221; (Silent Arms), also the <a href=\"https:\/\/RawTravel.tv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raw Travel<\/a> theme song. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hIog6cNx4pA?si=RBmv8yH5S_IQlzPs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been over a decade since I attended the big Rock Al Parque (Rock the Park) in Bogota, Colombia, but this time, I had backstage access as my pals Los Suziox, were headlining the 2nd evening of the show. I&#8217;m impressed with the organizational skills of the folks who put this on because it&#8217;s three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,548,1,4],"tags":[224,232,170,182,183,184,54,2823,2822,626,228,44,399,97,506,837,2821,2824],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159653,"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159624\/revisions\/159653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}