CALLE 13 To Be Honored By New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito

With Band Frontman Rene "Residente" Perez Joglar Named KING Of This Sunday's National Puerto Rican Day Parade, The Mayor & Speaker Will Honor The Multiple-GRAMMY Winning Group This Evening At Gracie Mansion 

- as first reported by BUZZFEED:

 As A Demonstration of Solidarity During Sunday's Parade in New York, Calle 13 Has Chosen To March Alongside The Sister Of Jailed Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera And Other Advocates Working For His Release.

  Award-Winning Journalist Maria Hinojosa of NPR's Latino USA Also Recently Spoke With Calle 13 About A Wealth of Issues and the Band's Latest Critically-Acclaimed Album MultiViral - Listen Here

 With The Release Of Calle 13's Latest Single From MultiViral, "Ojos Color Sol" - Featuring renowned Cuban Trova Maestro,  Silvio Rodríguez, The Groundbreaking Album Continues To Win High Praise:

"FIVE STARS - Few albums are as well crafted and thought out as Calle 13's fifth record MultiViral. Through it, the hybrid rap/alt-rock/urban/experimental band delivers its most sophisticated and best produced record thus far. It's playful, profound and melodic while having raw power and guts unlike any other. The combination of the album's arc, its craft and the variety of its sound while keeping a cohesive backbone is what makes MultiViral a virtually perfect record. Like many of Calle 13's previous projects, MultiViral is a tour de force of intellectual flexing and lyrical gymnastics...inviting the listener to participate in Calle 13's revolution. ...It's what good hip-hop should be, lyrically pliant and intelligent, full of energy and completely unpredictable. Each beat and each rhyme is entirely satisfying...it's hard not to get chills. MultiViral soars, spits, takes you on a roller coaster and leaves you satisfied like no record I have heard in years." - Sounds and Colors

 "FOUR STARS - MultiViral is as ambitious a hip-hop album as any in any language" - Rolling Stone

"FOUR STARS - MultiViral ups the ante... the album excites like few others" - All Music

"Puts a lot more on the line... consecrates Calle 13 as a great Latin American rock band."- Billboard

 "A major step and a great listen... few rappers can even come close to [Residente's] flow" - NPR

 "[Calle 13 is] networked every which way: technologically, culturally, musically, socially, politically... songs that hold messages of solidarity, sympathy for poor and demands for freedom and individuality"- NY Times

 "[Calle 13] decided that the things that are most immortal are great ideas.  They are curious, follow their muse and they do their own thing sonically... They continually delight and amaze me"- Jon Pareles, NYT Popcast

"C13's most ambitious recording ...their chemistry reaches new, uncharted territory.... a musical assault on the status quo with mind-bending soundscapes... a stomping, fist-pumping anthem to human endurance"- MTV 

 "Wealth Is Killing Hip Hop... [But] Calle 13 is leading the charge against conspicuous consumption" - TMZ

 "a disarming call for honesty... a critique of rap decadence that feels genuine and important." - Remezcla

"one of the most popular groups in Latin America ...Calle 13 supports and defend their community... 'Adentro' is forceful and emotionally arresting... a relentless commentary on materialism &violence in rap."- Buzzfeed

"Calle 13 perfectly combine profound social criticism with catchy melodies... 

'Adentro' is extremely powerful. a story of impotence, injustice, and rebellion ...so authentic, Listeners can feel the truth." - The Source