Alex Lopez (She/her, guitar and vocals) and
Tut Lopez (They/them, bass) as well as
Summer Sigritz (drums). The trio shares a history that spans many critical years of their lives and culminates in a coherent musical vision that is full of chemistry.
Beginning their musical careers in middle-school band classes, Alex and Tut first pursued the clarinet, “Because it was the year
Spongebob came out and we both wanted to play the clarinet like Squidward,” Alex says. Summer, being two years younger, first met Alex a few years later when the latter was a T.A. for Summer’s band class. “I remember saying something out loud about how I had just gotten an electric guitar and it was my first one,” says Sigtritz. “Alex overheard me … she brought me an
Utah musicians have been putting out a lot of music this year, and that includes singles. So, here is the roundup that spotlights the cream of 2020 s crop. Narrowing it down was hard, but these are the notables in no particular order, and almost all streaming on Spotify.
C.Valenta, Dreebo, Deep : Besides the immediately earwormy nature of this song with its dreamy and emotive backing beats, Deep finds local rapper C.Valenta and L.A.-based artist Dreebo going deep indeed, moving swiftly from themes of ambition to salvation. Besides making up for lost time, while practicing my patience, C.Valenta gingerly considers his own mistakes, but other things too, like the nagging question that many artists must fixate on Would people care about and remember me if I was gone? Deep in itself answers that question by being such a memorable track.
SONIALOXO = Dua Lipa x Lady Gaga
Belladonna, or as some call it, deadly nightshade, is a drug disguised in the shape of a delicious berry. It’s so potent that it can kill children. It’s toxic, and in Italy, women used it to enlarge their pupils and make them more beautiful. All this context is needed to understand SONIALOXO’s new single, “BELLADONNA,” a maddening, near-three-minute, electric-dipped pop song. Upon first listen, it seems the lyrics don’t make any sense, as if the narrator is changing perspectives from verse to verse. That’s the effect of belladonna personified accordingly, both the muse and narrator of this single. Simply put, this song is a trip, “and SONIALOXO uses “BELLADONNA” to capture listeners under her terrifying, but exhilarating, spell.