* Presumably named after the excellent BBC documentary mini-series by Adam Curtis; Google Video and/or Netflix that shit for some illuminating brain food.
Bang Data at the Elbo Room
January 12, 2009
Review by Eric K. Arnold
Photos by EKAphotography
What more could anyone ask from a Tuesday night in the Mission than discovering both a new favorite taqueria and a new favorite band? First the taqueria: Los Coyotes on 16th (in-between Mission and Valencia) is a welcome change of pace from overly-familiar Mexi-food joints like El Cumbre and Pancho Villa. Two words: mango salsa. That's all you need to know. Well, that, and the fact that their "super taco" isn't just a taco, but a meal. It comes with frijoles con queso, guacamole, sour cream, rice, pico de gallo, and shredded iceberg lettuce, as well as carne asada on two corn tortillas. It's pretty good, especially with a little habanero sauce, but add the mango salsa and it's out of this fuckin' world.
Los Coyotes' super taco not only tasted awesome, but makes an apt metaphor for my new favorite band, Bang Data. Like my taqueria meal, Bang Data serves up a tasty portion of familiar offerings - in this case, rock, rap, and Latin music - and just as Los Coyotes' mango salsa made their super taco something special, Bang Data flipped what could have been a predictable script, and made their set extra-memorable - they were hotter than habanero sauce on a jalapeno-marinated carrot.
