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Guzman (Lead, Rhythm &amp; Acoustic Guitars, Keyboards) &amp;\u00a0Nicky Godinez (Bass, Rhythm &amp; Acoustic Guitars) &#8211; flew all the way in from Puerto Rico this year for SXSW and a prime spot in Splash&#8217;s Magic Hour concert at Mohawk.\u00a0On a gray London kind of day in downtown Austin, The Disfunction, shines a clear light of classic rock with a psychedelic twist through the pea soup night in town.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-15826\" src=\"https:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Discfuction-live-at-Splashs-Magic-Hour-concert-at-Mohawk-01-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Discfuction-live-at-Splashs-Magic-Hour-concert-at-Mohawk-01-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Discfuction-live-at-Splashs-Magic-Hour-concert-at-Mohawk-01-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Discfuction-live-at-Splashs-Magic-Hour-concert-at-Mohawk-01-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Long hair and mustached, The Disfunction\u00a0looks every bit of classic rock band. You can&#8217;t tell if these folks are Blur, Zeppelin or ZZ Top. Doesn&#8217;t matter. Shut up. They&#8217;re good, they&#8217;re fun. And they take the flamingoed neon flow of the night right where it needs to be to remind America&#8217;s aging party town it can still be hip, even if just for one day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-15828\" src=\"https:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Discfuction-live-at-Splashs-Magic-Hour-concert-at-Mohawk-02-1024x685.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Discfuction-live-at-Splashs-Magic-Hour-concert-at-Mohawk-02-1024x685.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Discfuction-live-at-Splashs-Magic-Hour-concert-at-Mohawk-02-300x201.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Discfuction-live-at-Splashs-Magic-Hour-concert-at-Mohawk-02-768x514.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So this isn&#8217;t much of a write up for the Blogland but it doesn&#8217;t need to be. The words don&#8217;t matter, just the music and The Disfunction is classic crunchy groove rock waiting to burrow it&#8217;s ear worm into your brain home.<\/p>\n<p>===========================================================================================================<\/p>\n<p>For more on The Disruption, click <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/thedisfunction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more on South By South West SXSW festival, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Charles Pearce The Disfunction &#8211;\u00a0Many Jose Lorenzo (Vocals, Synth &amp; Tambourines),\u00a0Francis X. Guzman (Lead, Rhythm &amp; Acoustic Guitars, Keyboards) &amp;\u00a0Nicky Godinez (Bass, Rhythm &amp; Acoustic Guitars) &#8211; flew all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,246,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-breaking-news","category-itlm-otrs","category-this-just-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}