Cafe Tacvba

Cafe Tacuba (often spelled Cafe Tacvba) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning musical group from Naucalpan, Mexico. They were founded in 1989, and since then have had the same musical lineup.

Previously known as "Alicia Ya No Vive Aqui" (a tribute to Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), the band took its final name from a coffee shop (el Cafe de Tacuba) located in downtown Mexico City, which opened in 1912 and had its heyday in the 1940's and 1950's, and was representative of the Pachuco scene from the time, something the band would certainly acknowledge as an influence. The Cafe de Tacuba is still in operation on Tacuba street, in Mexico City's Historic Center.

In their first shows (prior to the release of their first album), people would scream "Pinche Juan!" ("F**king John!") to Ruben because that's the name of one of the band's first underground hits, so he kept the name for the release of the first album. Two years later he got bored and changed it to "Cosme" (a disused name in Spanish) for the release of "Re". Since then, he has changed his name for every album and world tour.