Piñata Protest was forced to play their first show on a sidewalk in January of 2006. The show was originally planned to be held at Snaps Skate Shop (rip) when out of no where San Antonio’s finest showed up, forced the bands to stop playing, and had everyone leave the venue. Victor, álvaro, and Manuel (being the rebels that they were) courageously defied the SAPD and played unplugged for the remaining crowd that circled around them that night. The band began with álvaro who met Manuel through a friend who replied to a musician’s ad in the local paper. Victor who was at the time drummer for Mal Hecho en San Quilmas was asked to join the band after watching him play at an earlier Snaps show. Elliott who was at the time playing bass for The Usual Suspects, joined after Piñata Protest’s second show at The Wiggle Room where they met. Early in 2008 Victor left the band and JJ, a friend of the band was soon asked to play drums. Among their other pendejadas, the band has released a self-titled EP, a music video, has shared the stage with bands like Eske, Hit Me Back, Bruise Violet, at Chicago’s Latino Fest in 2007, with performance artists like Guillermo Gómez-Peña, with Texas bands like Los Skarnales, Snow Byrd, The Lower Class Brats, The Sweethearts, has had live performances on San Antonio’s KYSM College’s radio station, and of course not to forget, has played for your drunk uncle Gordo at his 45th cumpleaños backyard BBQ. ’’With their accordion-powered, puro-pedo punk rock and bilingual vocals, Piñata Protest has all the makings of a San Antonio staple. They mix beer,Tex-Mex, and accordions with their crazy onstage antics, and they’ll even throw in a punked out verson of La Cucaracha’’ San Antonio Current - March 2008