{"id":2443753,"date":"2019-05-03T13:36:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=831127"},"modified":"2019-05-03T13:36:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:36:35","slug":"cafe-tacvbas-gear-stolen-crew-members-beaten-in-highway-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/cafe-tacvbas-gear-stolen-crew-members-beaten-in-highway-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Caf\u00e9 Tacvba\u2019s Gear Stolen, Crew Members Beaten in Highway Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cafe-tacvba-robbed.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Mexican rock band Caf\u00e9 Tacvba had their concert gear stolen in a highway robbery that left two of their crew members \u201cbrutally beaten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band\u2019s equipment truck was en route to a concert in Cancun, Mexico when the robbery took place; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/05\/03\/719944335\/cafe-tacvba-robbed-on-tour-two-crew-members-beaten-instruments-and-gear-stolen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to NPR<\/a>, the stretch of highway connecting&nbsp;Puebla and Veracruz, where the robbery took place, has been plagued by robberies and assaults.<\/p>\n<p>The perpetrators stole the equipment truck, which contained Caf\u00e9 Tacvba\u2019s instruments, consoles and other gear. Police later found the vehicle, its contents emptied, abandoned on the side of the highway.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the band on social media channels said that the crew members were also briefly kidnapped in the incident; the band didn\u2019t elaborate on their condition.<\/p>\n<p>The band added that they were working with authorities to recover their equipment and, despite their instruments being stolen, Caf\u00e9 Tacvba still intends to perform at their May 4th gig in Cancun.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.1212121212121\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"es\">?\u00a1URGENTE!?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CafeTacvba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#CafeTacvba<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C7ceKR3Ul3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/C7ceKR3Ul3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Caf\u00e9 Tacvba (@cafetacvba) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cafetacvba\/status\/1123996266181156866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">May 2, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cafe-tacvba-mexico-robbery-831127\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican rock band Caf\u00e9 Tacvba had their concert gear stolen in a highway robbery that left two of their crew members \u201cbrutally beaten.\u201d The band\u2019s equipment truck was en route to a concert in Cancun, Mexico when the robbery took place; according to NPR, the stretch of highway connecting&nbsp;Puebla and Veracruz, where the robbery took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 12:15:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}