We noted that among this year’s crop of Record Store Day exclusives was an album of Xiu Xiu covering music from Angelo Badalamenti’s score to Twin Peaks. Originally commissioned by Australia’s Gallery ...
Xiu Xiu have announced ERASERHEAD XIU XIU, a new album, film and live performance inspired by David Lynch’s feature debut. Releasing on July 10 via Polyvinyl, the experimental rock band’s ...
It has been five years since Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu went on a solo tour… The sets from this tour will be from a repertoire of over 80 songs plus several brand new pieces from a new Xiu Xiu record ...
As Matthew Foster wrote back in February, Angel Guts: Red Classroom, presented in full last Thursday at Birthdays, "operates a scorched-earth policy, reliant on little more than analogue synths, ...
Inscrutable, voyeuristic, cathartic; the music of Xiu Xiu lies solidly in a negative space between pure art experimentation and accessible rock bloodletting. Originally formed in 2002 by Jamie Stewart ...
The first time I saw Xiu Xiu was on the recommendation of my Swedish internet friend of Ethiopian descent who I knew as Gabriel. He had pointed the way from my Who-obsessed pre-teens to the Smiths, My ...
“I’m surprised we made this record,” says Jamie Stewart, who uses they/them pronouns, as they drive through the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. They are talking about the new album of their ...
At last summer's Pitchfork-curated Intonation Festival in Chicago's Union Park, Xiu Xiu stuck out like sore thumb amid more no-doy outdoor-fest-ready groups like the Hold Steady and Out Hud. Xiu Xiu's ...