Xixa

American musical group

XIXA is an American rock band from Tucson, Arizona. Allmusic describes their music as "a form of blues indebted to the desert, mixed in with their Latin roots and a dose of gothic horror.".^[1]

History

Brian Lopez and Gabriel Sullivan founded a group called Chicha Dust which eventually became XIXA, releasing its first album, an eight-track live EP, in 2013.^[2] Both Lopez and Sullivan had previously played in the group Giant Sand. The group's name references chicha, a Peruvian style of music indebted to both cumbia and psychedelic rock.^[3]

Following the debut EP, Shift and Shadow, the group released a full-length album Bloodline in 2016, and toured the United States and Europe. ^[4] A four-song EP called The Code arrived in 2019.^[5] Genesis, a second full-length, arrived in 2021.^[6]

Members

Brian Lopez - vocals, guitar.
Gabriel Sullivan - vocals, guitar
Geoffrey Hidalgo - bass
Hikit Corbel - bass
Jason Urman - keyboards
Winston Watson - drums

Discography

Shift and Shadow (Self-released, 2013)
Bloodline (Barbes Records, 2016)
The Code EP (Self-released, 2019)
Genesis (Barbes, 2021)

References

^ Xixa biography at Allmusic
^ XIXA's Chucks Cumbia Covers and Goes All-Original on New Album. Phoenix New Times, June 30, 2016.
^ Album of the Day: Xixa, Genesis. Bandcamp Daily, February 17, 2021.
^ Back to the Well. Tucson Weekly, July 19, 2018.
^ XIXA Are Your New Favorite Desert-Goth Band. Kerrang!, February 12, 2019.
^ Review: XIXA Embark on an Unsettling Tour of the Sonoran Desert on Sophomore Record ‘Genesis’. Atwood Magazine, March 12, 2021.