Xixa

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]

Xixa in 2019

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)
• Xolo (Jullian, 2025)