The Poor Toms
Urban Music from the XXI Century
Querétaro, Mexico
The record crate
LPs, EPs and singles
I finished it after almost a year of artist’s block. It’s the third single from Simple Things and one of the most intimate songs of my career.
The second single from my Simple Things anthology: a rhythmic ballad with an 80s and 90s rock feel, about a father and his daughters when distance comes between them.
It opens my Simple Things anthology. A simple song, deep and melancholic, about feeling small when you can’t talk to the one person you’d want for yourself.
INXS is the reason The Poor Toms exists. Here are two of their songs done my way, plus Shine, a story about bullying.
I first recorded it for the UNO demo. In 2020 I re-recorded it on the same base and added Bridges on piano and voice. It’s about how fragile life is.
It goes back to the 90s and X-it, my first project. In 2020 I finished it, produced it and wrote the lyrics, about human decay through technology and social media.
It was going to be an LP, but the industry changed, so I released it as my first concept EP: ballads with different sounds and themes. Out in 2019.
My first official single, reworked from the UNO demo. It’s “instrumental”, but you hear the voices of those who governed Mexico before 2018, as an ironic jab.
The 2011 demo with the songs and ideas I started this project with. You can hear the basic gear. It’s only on Bandcamp.
Desperation
I finished it after almost a year of artist’s block. It’s the third single from Simple Things and one of the most intimate songs of my career.
View recordRain or Shine
The second single from my Simple Things anthology: a rhythmic ballad with an 80s and 90s rock feel, about a father and his daughters when distance comes between them.
View recordStrangers in a Coffee Shop
It opens my Simple Things anthology. A simple song, deep and melancholic, about feeling small when you can’t talk to the one person you’d want for yourself.
View recordTwo Kicks and a Bullied
INXS is the reason The Poor Toms exists. Here are two of their songs done my way, plus Shine, a story about bullying.
View recordLife Whisper
I first recorded it for the UNO demo. In 2020 I re-recorded it on the same base and added Bridges on piano and voice. It’s about how fragile life is.
View recordApocalypse
It goes back to the 90s and X-it, my first project. In 2020 I finished it, produced it and wrote the lyrics, about human decay through technology and social media.
View recordThe Ballads
It was going to be an LP, but the industry changed, so I released it as my first concept EP: ballads with different sounds and themes. Out in 2019.
View recordReinicio (Versión Irónica)
My first official single, reworked from the UNO demo. It’s “instrumental”, but you hear the voices of those who governed Mexico before 2018, as an ironic jab.
View recordUNO
The 2011 demo with the songs and ideas I started this project with. You can hear the basic gear. It’s only on Bandcamp.
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Side B
One Tom per instrument
Vocals 
Drums 
Guitar 
Piano and keys 
Beats and production
The Poor Toms is my music project. I’m Juan Luis Salazar Regnier. I was born in Mexico City, and I’ve lived in Querétaro for almost 30 years.
I started my journey as a musician and songwriter in the 90s with the band X-it, and I’ve rescued several of my songs from that project, bringing them into today’s styles. You can still hear the styles that shaped me: classic rock, progressive rock, new wave, post-punk, alternative rock, underground and many more that stay alive in the sounds, effects, lyrics and instruments of TPT.
My path as a musician, and above all as a drummer, began 36 years ago. I’ve shared the stage with cover bands like Bajo Fianza, The Fifth Stone and plenty of others, and with original-music projects like Freebreakers, MAAT, Los Kubrix and X-it.
I’m a drummer first, but I also consider myself a multi-instrumentalist. You can hear it across my whole discography: to this day, I handle the songwriting, performance, recording, editing, mixing and production myself. I make music about me, thinking about the stories around me and the ones woven into city landscapes.
Step into my music, travel with me.
- Juan Luis Salazar Regnier
- Mexico City / Querétaro, Mexico
- Since 2011
- Drummer since 1990
From stage to studio
Bands and stages
I’ve played small stages and big ones, private events, festivals, parties and short tours.
- Original music
- X-it
- Freebreakers
- MAAT
- Los Kubrix
- Covers
- Bajo Fianza
- The Fifth Stone
A few influences
- INXS
- Led Zeppelin
- The Church
- Marillion
- U2
- Echo & The Bunnymen
- Joy Division
- Pink Floyd
- New Order
- The Police
- The Rolling Stones
- James
- Soda Stereo
- Radio Futura
- Fobia
- David Bowie
- The Cranberries
- Fleetwood Mac
My videos
I Melt With You (Modern English Cover)
I recorded this cover at home during the COVID-19 lockdown, as a tribute to Modern English and the 80s new wave and post-punk they came from. I dedicate it to everyone stuck indoors when the world, and time with it, seemed to stop: a nudge to pull closer to the people beside you and reach the ones far away online.
QUERETAROCK, NEW WAVE, POST-PUNK, ELECTRO ROCK, CINEMATIC
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