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Mexican rock is the umbrella term for rock music created in Mexico, blending Anglo-American rock idioms with local rhythms, instruments, and Spanish-language lyricism. It typically features electric guitars, bass, and drum set, but often integrates instruments such as trumpets, accordion, or folkloric percussion to evoke mariachi, ranchera, cumbia, and other regional styles. Lyrically, it ranges from street-level social commentary and political critique to playful wordplay and romantic storytelling, frequently using Mexican slang and cultural references. Stylistically it spans early rock and roll covers, garage and surf, psychedelic and hard rock, punk and urbano, and the 1990s alternative wave that helped define the broader movement of rock en español and Latin alternative.