Road Beyond the Valley

Thine is the Kingdom (Acoustic Version)

XOLO

Heart of the World

Xolo de Galáxia

Arcoiris

Apanoayan

Waves of Serenity

Xoloitzcuintli

La Danza de Los Jaguares

It Doesn't Matter

It Doesn't Matter (feat. Modern English)

Find You There

Dead Man REMIX by Camilo Lara / Mexican Institute of Sound MIS / Instituto Mexicano del Sonido IMS

In 2012, Camilo Lara invited Brian Lopez and Gabriel Sullivan down to Mexico City to join his band Mexican Institute of Sound in front of 100,000 fans at Vive Latino festival. Now with their own band XIXA, Brian and Gabriel have this time around invited cumbia maestro Camilo to join them and remix the track "Dead Man" of their debut album ‘Bloodline'. The remix drops just in time for XIXA's Mexico debut at Vive Latino 2017 and another four week European run hitting London, Paris, Vienna, Barcelona, Westway Festival Portugal and Paaspop Festival Netherlands among many others. 

The band has been steadily touring since the album’s release in February 2016, between SXSW’s Levitation and Globalfest appearances, Amsterdam’s Paradiso, Brussel’s Botanique, club and festival shows all over Europe and the US including Lowlands, BlueBalls Lucerne, ArianoFolk Italy, but also at AHA Festival Santa Fe and Green River Fest Massachusetts, later in the year being featured at legendary TV-Festival WDR Rockpalast Crossroas and Crossing Border Den Haag.

The debut album ‘Bloodline’ (Barbès/Glitterhouse, 2016) gained immediate media-attention such as R2, Rolling Stone, Les Inrocks, Q Magazine, Musikexpress, Sounds and Colours, and seeing airplay on KEXP, KCRW, and CMJ amongst others and has been featured as the record of the month on French public radio FIP. Uncut called the album a "haunting, mesmerising stew” and R2 Magazine "an impossible-to-categorise blend of indie, americana and chicha” from a "superbly eclectic outfit”.

XIXA tune in the wild frequency of the Sonoran desert, in glittering, gritty rock’n roll twin lead-guitars blended with psychedelic cumbia. The band hails from the always-flourishing Tucson indie-rock scene where Brian Lopez, Gabriel Sullivan and legendary drummer Winston Watson are also members of the last acclaimed incarnation of Giant Sand and have international credits with the likes of KT Tunstall, Sergio Mendoza, X’s John Doe, Calexico, and even Dylan and Alice Cooper. 

In the meantime, the band is recording their upcoming album, scheduled for next winter and getting ready to hit the road again in spring and for summer festivals.


Dead Man originally appears on the album "Bloodline" by XIXA
(Glitterhouse / Barbès Records) 2016

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XIXA - Bloodline Pt IV - Tour 2017

Tickets: http://www.xixamusic.com/tour

18 Mar - MX - Mexico City - Vive Latino
22 Mar - DE - Bielefeld - Forum Bielefeld *
23 Mar - DE - Nürnberg - Z-Bau*
24 Mar - DE - Jena - Rosenkeller e.V. Jena *
25 Mar - AT - Vienna - Haus der Musik
26 Mar - HU - Budapest - Dürer Kert **
27 Mar - HR - Zagreb - Klub Močvara
28 Mar - SL - Ljubljana - Kino Šiška
29 Mar - IT - Savignano - Chiesa del Suffragio / acieloaperto Retro Pop Live
30 Mar - CH - Winterthur - Salzhaus Winterthur '
31 Mar - CH - Bern - Dachstock Reitschule '
01 Apr - CH - Basel - Kaserne Basel 
02 Apr - DE - Geislingen - Rätsche
04 Apr - UK - London - Thousand Island (The Garage) °
05 Apr - FR - Paris - Point Éphémère °
06 Apr - FR - Metz - Les Trinitaires °
07 Apr - FR - La Roche-Sur-Yon - FUZZ'YON °
08 Apr - PT - Guimarães - Westway Lab Festival
09 Apr - ES - Zaragoza - Las Armas
10 Apr - ES - Barcelona - Sala Apolo
12 Apr - AT - Dornbirn - Spielboden Dornbirn *
13 Apr - DE - Karlsruhe - jubez *
14 Apr - NL - Schijndel - Paaspop Festival
15 Apr - NL - Maastricht - Muziekgieterij



Supports:
* Tan LeRacoon http://www.tanleracoon.com/ 
° MOLLY http://www.wearemolly.com/
** Psycho Mutants http://www.psychomutants.com/
' Artlu Bubble & the Dead Animal Gang http://www.artlububble.ch/

Bloodline Remixes

Dead Man (REMIX by Camilo Lara / Mexican Institute of Sound MIS / Instituto Mexicano del Sonido IMS)

Tombstone Rashomon

XIXA - The Code EP (2019)

(c) & (p) 2019 XIXA and Dust & Stone, in Europe under exclusive license to Glitterhouse Records LC08323. All rights reserved. 
Written and performed by XIXA (Gabriel Sullivan, Brian Lopez, Jason Urman, Winston Watson, Christophe Corbel, Efren Cruz Chavez), Published by Modern Works 

Recorded at Dust & Stone by Gabriel Sullivan

Mastered at Cauliflower Audio by Adam Boose
Cover Artwork by Daniel Martin Diaz www.danielmartindiaz.com  
Management Christoph Storbeck www.striker-entertainment.com     
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The Code

Kvmbia Okvlt

Recorded and mixed at Dust & Stone Recording Studio by Gabriel Sullivan.
Produced by Gabriel Sullivan and Brian Lopez.
Mastered by Adam Boose at Cauliflower Audio.

El Condor Pasa

The Code - Live in Tucson at Club Congress, April 2019.

Brian Lopez - Vox/Gtr, Gabriel Sullivan - Vox/Gtr, Jason Urman - Keys, Geoffrey Hidalgo - Bass, Efren Cruz Chavez - Percussion, Winston Watson - Drums. Recorded and mixed by Franklin Bair.

ON TOUR NOW: https://XIXA.lnk.to/tour

Album - version The Code EP: https://xixa.lnk.to/thecode_ep

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The Code Live

The Code - Live In Tucson April 2019

XIXA’s Summer Wine: New single featuring Pearl Charles

A tribute to Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood's ethereal classic showcases XIXA’s passion for dreamy Americana alongside their very own melodic symbiosis of Latin, Psychrock and Goth.
The single features one of the most exciting female voices in Indie & Alt-Country, Los Angeles’ Pearl Charles. The song hits all digital outlets Oct 4th, as XIXA kicks off another tour around Europe in support of their latest acclaimed EP, The Code.

In The Code, Tucson’s dark, dusty, gothic overlords, XIXA, dug deeper into their desert roots to carve a more grandiose space for their catchy and latin-tinged psychedelic rock. Now they’re preparing for a new chapter: the release of their upcoming full-length album, Genesis (out in early 2020). 

The single Summer Wine showcases XIXA’s innate understanding of American songwriting. While it started off as an occasional encore in the band’s setlist, an encounter with the singer Pearl Charles inspired XIXA to record its own version of this all-time classic. 

"Summer Wine is one of those tunes that I've always wished I'd written. It has the distinct vastness and gaze that is so unique to the southwest and more specifically the Sonoran Desert," says Brian Lopez, who co-leads the band with vocals and guitars alongside Gabriel Sullivan, who also recorded and mixed this song, as he does all XIXA tracks. Sullivan adds: "We stayed fairly true to the original but certainly brought in aspects that I feel are a unique blend. Replacing the elegant horn and string parts with 80's synthesizers and Mellotron, then introducing Efren's cascara percussion pattern against Winston's solid as ever towel muted drums.” 

With XIXA's members now scattered between LA and Tucson, it seems inevitable that they'd cross paths with Pearl Charles. Sullivan concludes: "Pearl lending her perfectly delicate and soaring vocals that juxtapose against mine and Brian's borderline whispered vocal approaches, Connor weaving in layers of pedal steel. When we first met, we immediately thought her own somewhat uncomfortable interpretation of classic American folk, alt-country etc. fit perfectly with our open musical approach. I dare say we have made our own acid blend of Summer Wine."

XIXA, the guitar-slinging six-piece from the deep Southwest combine gritty guitars, the bumping grind of chicha and cumbia, and windswept desert blues into a mesmerizing elixir. After the acclaimed 2016 debut Bloodline, their EP Shift and Shadow, and 2018’s dark western single Tombstone Rashomon, The Code was a natural next step in their evolution. A swirling, raw collection of songs, intense and sun bleached yet tinged with an inky gothic horror. The songs play like the long-lost soundtrack to a panoramic Tarantino Western; poised, stylish, and menacing. It’s XIXA at their potent, eclectic best.

US and European tours are lined up through 2019 as XIXA continues to spread The Code far and wide.  Further touring in 2020 will pave way for the release of Genesis and further cement the band’s legacy as pathfinders of a New Southwest. 

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Written by Lee Hazlewood
Performed by XIXA feat. Pearl Charles
Produced by Gabriel Sullivan and Brian Lopez
Pearl Charles appears courtesy of Kanine Records
Guest Pedal Steel by Connor Gallaher
Recorded in Tucson, AZ at Dust & Stone and in Los Angeles, CA at home studios

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