'We opened Pandoras box:' Mexican rock trio the Warning defies all expectations

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Set us as preferred Growing up, Alejandra Villarreal was accustomed to the dry Mexican heat, trapped inside the small historic venues where she and her sisters would perform as kids.But as temperatures hit 103 degrees outside the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood, she couldn’t help but shout.“¡Ay, qué calor!” she said, swinging her bass guitar.Inside the nearly 100-year-old theater, Alejandra was onstage for a sound check.

She ran through distorted, metal-influenced riffs as her sisters — drummer Paulina Villarreal and lead vocalist-guitarist Daniela Villarreal — prepared for the second of three sold-out shows at the Fonda, as the rapidly rising rock band the Warning.The Warning has been shaking the walls of L.A.theaters since the group first landed in the city eight years ago — but this year feels especially monumental for the sisters.Released in August, the band’s most recent album, “Everything’s Falling,” is a snarling, noisy and melodic rock joyride that rarely, if ever, slows down.

Written between L.A.and their hometown of Monterrey, the straight-to-the point lyricism documents the Villarreal sisters’ frustrations, anger and failures — most fiercely on “Kerosene,” which lambasts a jealous critic who “falls asleep with me on your screen,” so sings Daniela.“Kerosene” recently shot up to the No.1 spot on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, which made the Warning the first Mexican and first all-female band to make the spot.

Another single, their Spanish-language anthem “Ego,” was nominated for rock song at the 2026 Latin Grammys.The legend of the Warning began in 2014, when Alejandra was just 9 years old and Paulina and Daniela were 12 and 14, respectively.The sisters came home from a Sunday carne asada with their family — and recorded a righteous cover of Metallica’s “Ente...