Bootlegged across the Americas, pumped in the clubs, and ripped in cyberspace and the airwaves around the world, VeryBeCareful forges ahead globetrotting alongside legends and antiheros: JoeStrummer, AlfredoGutierrez, Antibalas, CarlosVives, GrupoNiche, KronosQuartet, GogolBordello, BuenaVistaSocialClub, JackWhite, CelsoPiña, VampireWeekend, FrukoYSusTesos. Their infamous fifteen year traditions hosting old school “dances” for Valentine’sDay, NewYear’sEve, 20deJulio, Halloween, and the legendary July Fourth Brooklyn “CumbiaUnderTheSparks” rooftop affair, has brought together people from around the globe itchin’ for those early roots sounds that prove a stripped down parranda is the fiercest and funnest way to party.
Discography
- Deception Is Easy (produced by Money Mark)
1998 Pinto Records - Cheap Chillin
1999 De Volada/Downtown Pijao/Steadybeat - The Rose
2001 Downtown Pijao - El Grizz
2002 Downtown Pijao - Ñacas
2005 Downtown Pijao - Salad Buey
2007 Downtown Pijao - Horrible Club (live bootleg recordings)
2009 Downtown Pijao - Escape Room
2010 Barbès - ¿Remember Me From The Party?
2012 Downtown Pijao - El Millonario
2013 Downtown Pijao/Steadybeat - Daisy’s Beauty Salon
2018 Downtown Pijao
Film/Video
- The Tooth (film short)
2003 Downtown Pijao/Cinnamon Roll Gang

“SE HAN CONVERTIDO EN UNA BANDA DE CULTO, QUE APARECE SIN AVISAR Y SIEMPRE PONE A LA AUDENCIA A MOVER EL ESQUELETO”
Al Borde
Press
Very Be Careful are bicoastal Vallenato musicians infused with the kind of emotional retelling that influenced Gabriel Garcia Marquez so deeply, he described One Hundred Years of Solitude as a 350 page Vallenato
LA Weekly