Girl Ultra
February 28, 2027 at 8:00 PM · Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA
Popscene x Rickshaw Stop Presents GIRL ULTRA el Tour de RRRomeo Sunday, Feb 28, 2027 @ Rickshaw Stop 7pm doors, 8pm show $22.00 advance, $25.00 week of show All ages welcome For years, Girl Ultra has treated genre like a passport. Each release has found the Mexico City artist — born Mariana de Miguel — testing vast sonic dialects, discovering another way to tell the truth. R&B may have introduced her to the world, yet experimental pop expanded the frame. But RRROMEO, her latest full-length album, feels like something else entirely: a declaration of artistic freedom wrapped in chrome-plated synths, late-night desire, and the kind of fearless songwriting that turns personal memories into active cinema. Produced alongside Dave 1 and the legendary funk architects Chromeo, RRROMEO is an LP of beautiful collisions. Mexico City meeting Burbank; indie pop nostalgia crashing into analog funk obsession. It sounds like darkwave rubbing shoulders with glossy synth-pop. Arabic samples, Andean flutes, dub textures, gritty guitars, city-pop melodies, bloghouse chaos, and nightclub romance existing in the same universe. Most importantly, it’s Girl Ultra at her most self-assured. “Basically this comes to a joint of beautiful coincidences between my teenage self and my present self, ” she says. The story begins long before the studio sessions. Fifteen years ago, Girl Ultra was just another music-obsessed teenager navigating Mexico City ' s sprawling nightlife culture. She saved money to see bands like Chromeo and Bloc Party, immersing herself in a city where dance floors became classrooms and where genres coexisted without hierarchy. She grew up surrounded by radio stations that still played Journey and Foreigner alongside Latin pop staples. She absorbed the melancholy of Mexican nostalgia culture, the enduring love for sounds from decades past. Girl Ultra and Dave 1 became internet friends sometime around 2017. At the time, she was emerging from the SoundCloud R&B wave, building a reputation as one of Mexico ' s most exciting young voices. Dave followed her work. She followed his. The two would talk about music and what a partnership could entail. Then came the pandemic. “We had so much time on our hands, ” Dave recalls. “I was in the space where I wanted to start collaborating with more up-and-coming artists. We were just like, ‘Yo, let' s do a project together. ’” At first, Dave imagined something different. Perhaps a Spanish-language cousin to early Maxwell records. Maybe something inspired by Feist' s earliest work. Girl Ultra had other ideas. “She was adamant, ” Dave says. “She didn't want to make R&B anymore. She was like, ‘I'm off the R&B thing. I want to move forward from that. ’” That decision would become the foundation of RRROMEO.Instead of revisiting familiar territory, Girl Ultra turned inward. She revisited the music she loved before she ever made records: garage rock, house music, and the sounds that filled her childhood home. “I' ve always been drawn to things that you think might not match, ” she says, “but they ' ve always matched if you dig a little bit in the archive. ” That archival instinct runs through every second of RRROMEO. Listen closely and you 'll hear echoes of Mexican pop from the 1980s and ‘90s. You 'll hear shades of European s
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