Unsexy Nerd Ponies

Through a myriad of guises and tonal expressions, Tijuana-bred Unsexy Nerd Ponies (Marco Antonio Jiménez Gallardo) embodies the eclecticism of border culture.

A quintessentially post-modern artist, Jiménez Gallardo manages to reference everything from the rawness of late 70s post-punk, the DIY aesthetics of twee, the Nortec-cited regional sounds of northern mexico, to the spaztic future-shock experiments of the Wham City collective, all in the name of a killer hook. Yet, despite such copious reference points, Unsexy Nerd Ponies manages to look and sound like nothing else.

His populist ethos is apparent in his fervent performances, equally topical and original. Exemplifying something akin to the archetypal “vecindad” party, his line of noise techno art-party ambulates over a historic musical landscape, fromTijuana to Detroit, New York to Manchester, stopping just short of full-blown kitsch.
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