Xiu Xiu

Chorus.fm — The video for *Xiu Xiu* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/xiuxiu)'s first single "Hi" can be seen in the replies. Their forthcoming album Always hits stores on March 6th. more info

Stereogum — Conceptual art-music frighteners Xiu Xiu have released the video for “Hi,” their new fraught-synthpop single, and it’s a frantic jumble of the sort of disconnected, often vaguely disturbing imagery you’d expect from Jamie Stewart and co.: Toy... more info

Guardian Music — Electronic music miserablist Jamie Stewart returns with one of the happiest sad songs in recent memoryAfter the excitement of Christmas and the new year, who better to bring us back down to earth than California native Jamie Stewart, aka electronic m... more info

Chorus.fm — Listen to *Xiu Xiu* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/xiuxiu)'s new single "Hi" here (http://soundcloud.com/xiu-xiu-music/xiu-xiu-hi). Their new album Always comes out on March 6th via Polyvinyl (http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/). more info

Stereogum — “If you’re wasting your life, say ‘Hi’ / If you’re alone tonight, say ‘Hi.’” A decade in and Jamie Stewart has only become more adept in his ability to squeeze relatable melodic manna from the most desolate and corporeally vulgar plac... more info

Altsounds — *Includes Of Montreal, Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu & Many More* In early March, Japan suffered one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history, a tsunami, which devastated its northern coast, and a nuclear disaster the scope of which is not yet fully unde... more info

Altsounds — "Slay & Slake," the debut full length from Sam Mickens (The Dead Science, Xiu Xiu, Parenthetical Girls) will be released November 22nd on 180g LP and for digital download by Brooklyn imprint Shatter Your Leaves. An avant-glam masterpiece of epic desi... more info

Altsounds — Over the years Stu Watson has helped many other people record their music--largely artists known for pressing at the edges of genre and musical form--feminist freak-folk provacateur Larkin Grimm, post-emo pop collective Xiu Xiu, and neo-soul-grunge m... more info

Altsounds — "To celebrate and to say thank you for being allowed to be a band for 10 years (2002-2012), as the insert for their next LP, Xiu Xiu will be compiling photographs of Xiu Xiu or Xiu Xiu related tattoos (or brands or scars). Over the years people at sh... more info

Altsounds — The anticipated new album from Sole & the Skyrider Band, Hello Cruel World, was just unleashed into the world via Fake Four Inc to much fan fare. With guests on the album including Xiu Xiu, Lil B, and Pictureplane, collaborations have been the name o... more info