LargeHeartedBoy — Throwing Muses' Purgatory/Paradise is the week's most tantalizing release, a combination of book and music. Mutual Benefit's Love's Crushing Diamond and Xiu Xiu's Nina are other new music releases I can wholly recommend. Reissues include a 3-LP remas... more info

Consequence of Sound — The band's 10th album is due out in February. more info

Prefix — Xiu Xiu will be releasing a Nina Simone tribute album and we've already been slathered with a taste of their ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/listen-to-xiu-xiu-just-say-i-love-him-nina-simone-/75496/ more info

Consequence of Sound — Off his forthcoming tribute album, Nina. more info

Prefix — Xiu Xiu — the project of songwriter Jamie Stewart and a rotating cast of musicians — has announced ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/xiu-xiu-covers-nina-simones-dont-smoke-in-bed/75025/ more info

Prefix — It's been over a decade since the late and great Nina Simone passed away. The vocalist, pianist, arranger, and songwriter ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/listen-to-xiu-xiu-dont-smoke-in-bed-nina-simone-co/74994/ more info

Consequence of Sound — Art-rockers pay tribute to the late jazz icon. more info

Chorus.fm — You can stream *Xiu Xiu (http://www.xiuxiu.org)*'s cover of *Nina Simone (http://www.ninasimone.com)*'s "Don't Smoke In Bed" in the replies. It's off the band's upcoming collection of Nina Simone cover songs, titled Nina, which will be available on ... more info

Impose Magazine — In the Less Artists More Condos series put out by Famous Class, there are always surprising and interesting contributions from a variety of our favorite artists. In this edition, number 8, we've got two brilliant new songs from Xiu Xiu and Lawren... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Brooklyn retro pop band Starlight Girls go triphop on their new single 7x3. The single is produced by Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart and will be released as a limited-edition picture 7" disc featuring glow-in-the-dark images of constellations. With 21st c... more info