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Poppy
The Union — Salt Lake City, UT
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About Poppy

Poppy started as a YouTube oddity in 2014, posting weird thirty-second clips that somehow felt creepy and hypnotic. Her early music mixed bubblegum pop with unsettling production and imagery that made people uncomfortable on purpose. She's collaborated with producers like Grimes and Morgan Simpson, shifting between glossy pop-punk on records like Flux and heavier, more experimental sounds on Desire: I Want to Turn Into You. Her thing is refusing to stay in one lane. One moment she's doing infectious pop hooks, the next she's in a rabbit hole of industrial noise and conceptual weirdness. Live, she commands a room with an almost cult-like intensity, and her fanbase treats her output like a puzzle to decode. She's essentially proof that you don't need a clear genre to build something genuinely weird and genuinely hers.

Poppy's shows are tight and deliberately eerie. She moves with mechanical precision, the crowd hangs on every moment, and there's an unsettling focus to the whole thing that makes it feel less like entertainment and more like witnessing something you shouldn't.

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Poppy + Salt Lake City

Poppy rolled through Salt Lake City on March 16, 2025 at Rockwell, playing a 17-song set that balanced her heavier material with some of her more introspective work. She opened with the punishing one-two of "have you had enough?" and "BLOODMONEY," establishing the intensity early. The set leaned into her more experimental phase, with deep cuts like "vital" and "the center's falling out" sitting comfortably alongside fan favorites like "I Disagree." "Concrete" hit particularly hard in the middle of the set, a song that showcases her ability to pivot from industrial-pop aggression to something more vulnerable. She closed things out with "new way out," which felt less like a victory lap and more like a considered exit—fitting for an artist who's never been interested in easy payoffs.

Poppy in Salt Lake City News

Live Music in Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City's alternative and pop-leaning rock scene has always had room for artists willing to push sonic boundaries. The city's venues tend to attract touring acts looking for a solid mid-sized crowd, and Poppy fits squarely into that demographic of listeners who value experimentation over radio-friendliness. There's a healthy appetite here for the kind of genre-blending that Poppy does—people who'll show up for industrial-pop just as readily as they will for traditional alternative rock.

Salt Lake City road trip to see Poppy?

Stay in the Avenues neighborhood—tree-lined streets with actual character, close enough to downtown but removed from the noise. For dinner, Lazy Dog in Sugar House serves exceptional Colorado lamb and maintains a wine list that doesn't insult your intelligence. Spend an afternoon at the Natural History Museum of Utah in Red Butte Canyon; the building itself is architecturally stunning and the collection gives real context to the landscape you're actually standing in. The city's proximity to actual mountains matters when you've got downtime.

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