Giovannie and the Hired Guns

With a sound that draws on everything from Southern rock, alt-rock, and metal to Latin hip-hop and música norteña, Giovannie and the Hired Guns introduced their gruff-voiced country-rock fusion with the Bad Habits album in 2017. By then a celebrated live act in their native Texas, they followed up with a 2020 eponymous LP and 2022's even more alt-rock-minded Tejano Punk Boyz, their major-label debut. Originally from Mineral Wells in North Texas, bandleader Giovannie Yanez began performing his own soul-baring songs at local bars in his late teens. During that time, he was work...