[2][3][4] Ratones Paranoicos, who played a style similar to the Rolling Stones, launched the genre that became known as "rock rolinga" in the 1980s.
[5] The rolinga subculture flourished starting in the 1990s, after the Rolling Stones first played in Argentina, in 1995, during the Voodoo Lounge Tour.
Their lyrics slowly departed from the classic topics of rock and roll music and focused instead on localism and the customs of poor people[5]—but not to the point of talking about idealistic struggles or purported revolutions.
During the early- to mid-2000s, the rolinga urban tribe started to lose popularity with the advent of the cumbia villera genre and the subculture associated with it.
[5] Political reactions to the fire included increased safety controls at nightclubs in Buenos Aires, which made the concerts of small bands very expensive.