Meet The Aces, your new favorite all-woman indie-pop band from Utah, as their second album arrives

Cristal Ramirez is over the novelty of being an all-female band.

As lead singer of The Aces, an all-woman indie-pop quartet that originated in Orem, Utah, she said she’s had people walk up to her after shows and say, “I thought you guys were gonna suck, and you started playing and you were so good. It’s amazing that you’re so good.”

Ramirez said she would respond with, “Why did you just expect that we were going to be bad? Because we were women?” It’s as if The Go-Gos and The Bangles never even happened.

I talked to The Aces — Ramirez, her drummer sister Alisa Ramirez, guitarist Katie Henderson and bassist McKenna Petty — about writing and producing their second album, “Under My Influence,” about splitting time between Utah and Los Angeles, and about how to be a rock band when COVID-19 keeps the music venues closed.

Read the interview here, at sltrib.com.