The Chicharones

At their peak, Martinez and Sleep delivered over two-hundred international performances a year, with shows involving Elvis-inspired high kicks, fake moustaches and costume changes, including a tribute to Mario and Luigi of the Nintendo franchise.

[7] Spin magazine described the duo as "the best bar band in America," delivering an "innovative and entirely unique hybrid of clever pop melodies and intelligent, layered songwriting that [borrowed] from everywhere and [sounded] like nothing else.

[3] When Pigs Fly resulted in a music video for the track "Breaking Point," which followed the struggles of a young Mexican traveller driven to drinking and theft in a rural desert town.

[4] The Chicharones have shared the road and stage with acts including Streetlight Manifesto, Pigeon John, Mickey Avalon, Lionize, Rodney Blake Powell and many others.

They have also licensed songs for television shows, including The Hills, Entourage, Flavor of Love 2, VH1’s Beach Party 2009, and movies such as Live Free or Die Hard[4] and Interview.

The Chicharones have played at South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas yearly, since their formation there in 2001.