3BallMTY brings tribal guarachero to SILO on Thursday, Nov 19

The Monterrey crew behind "Inténtalo" takes over the Design District's grain-silo dance hall for a 9 p.m. Thursday-night show.

Somewhere in Dallas right now there is a wedding DJ who knows exactly what happens when the first notes of "Inténtalo" hit: the tías get up, the cousins get up, and the dance floor stops being optional. On Thursday, Nov. 19, the group that made that song, 3BallMTY, plays it for a room built for exactly that kind of release: SILO, the Design District club that holds 3,145 people.

The show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are through See Tickets via SILO's ticket link. It's a school night, so plan the Friday accordingly.

3BallMTY comes out of Monterrey, Nuevo León, and the group's name is a play on "tribal", the sound it helped carry across the border: tribal guarachero, a collision of Mexican cumbia rhythm and hard-edged electronic dance music. In the early 2010s that sound peaked in Mexico and in U.S. cities with large Mexican and Mexican American communities, Texas very much included.

"Inténtalo", released in December 2011 with El Bebeto and América Sierra, was the breakthrough. It climbed to the top of the charts in Mexico and across Spanish-speaking markets, gave the group's album its title, and won Song of the Year honors at the 2012 Billboard Mexican Music Awards. Remezcla's retrospective put it neatly: the track turned an electronic outfit into something closer to a regional Mexican act, a song that now lives at weddings and quinceañeras and has found a second life on TikTok.

A song that started as a club experiment became a family-party standard.

The group hasn't been coasting on one record. This year's Club Conexión Tour opened with a sold-out night at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles in June and pushed through the U.S., Mexico and Europe, including a July date at Barcelona's Sala Apolo. The fall stretch has them in Manhattan on Nov. 5, Fort Lauderdale on Nov. 6, the Rio Grande Valley on Nov. 14 and the Inland Empire on Nov. 18 before Dallas, with San Antonio two nights later on Nov. 21 and Indianapolis on Dec. 4.

The room matters here. SILO opened in September 2024 inside a 1959 grain storage facility in the Design District, a project from promoters James "Disco Donnie" Estopinal and Patrick Tetrick that took three years to build. It didn't take long to land: in April, SILO placed No. 39 in the world and No. 4 in the U.S. on DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs list. Most of its calendar leans toward house, techno and bass music, which is what makes this booking interesting. A cumbia-rooted act from Monterrey on that sound system, in that concrete shell, is a statement that Dallas's electronic scene and its Mexican music audience are, more and more, the same crowd.

If you're going, a few practical notes. A 9 p.m. start at a club this size usually means the night runs late, so check SILO's own listing for set times as the date gets closer. Eat first; the Design District empties out on weeknights. And if you've only ever heard "Inténtalo" at a family party, this is the chance to hear it the way it was built, loud and fast and meant for a room full of people who came specifically to move.

Bring the cousins. They'll know the words.

Sources: Remezcla: 10 years since 3BallMTY's 'Inténtalo' hit No. 1 — the legacy of tribal guarachero (remezcla.com); Latin Power Music: El Club Conexión Tour kicks off strong — 3BallMTY sold out in Los Angeles (latinpowermusic.com.mx); Sala Apolo: 3BallMTY Club Conexión Tour (sala-apolo.com); Pollstar: 'Disco' Donnie Estopinal & Patrick Tetrick unveil new Dallas venue SILO (news.pollstar.com); Unleashed: SILO Dallas lands in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs (unleashedlgbtq.com); Dallasites101: SILO Dallas new electronic dance music concert venue (dallasites101.com); Wikipedia: 3Ball MTY (en.wikipedia.org); JamBase: 3BallMTY at SILO (jambase.com)