Xenia Rubinos

Vocalist and composer Xenia Rubinos crafts movingly powerful songs dipping in and out of genre and structure to create a sound that is fearlessly her own. Xenia’s powerhouse vocals are at the center of her music which grows from a wide range of influences from R&B to Hip-Hop to Caribbean rhythms and jazz all delivered with a soulful punk aura. Her debut album Magic Trix was released in 2013 by Ba Da Bing! Records to wide critical acclaim. Rubinos' latest album, Black Terry Cat, was released in June 2016 via ANTI- Records.

With a delightfully unique and empowering sound that Spin recently described as “multi-genre-hyphenate instrumental textures beneath Billie Holiday-esque croons” and inspired DIY to declare, ”Once Xenia Rubinos begins to sing, nothing else matters,” the talented Rubinos uses her soulful voice to traverse an array of genres from R&B to Hip-Hop to jazz and beyond, all of delivered with a New York punk-funk abandon. The album finds Rubinos assisted by longtime drummer Marco Buccelli, who produced the album, and Jeremy Loucas as engineer. The three worked an average of 16-17 hours a day for five months to complete the record which is named after “a giant black scraggly cat” that surprised Rubinos one cold night in Brooklyn.

Past Shows


Sep
9
th
2016
icehouse MPLS
Sep
9
th
2016
icehouse MPLS

Xenia Rubinos

with Ashley Groves
Oct
12
th
2013
Mainroom
Oct
12
th
2013
Mainroom

Man Man

with Xenia Rubinos

More Shows

Mar
11
th
7th St Entry

LØLØ

Dec
28
th
First Avenue

Soul Asylum

May
16
th
First Avenue

Larkin Poe

with Amythyst Kiah
Mar
29
th
The Fitzgerald Theater

ZZ Ward