Xiu Xiu: Always -Manic depression offers little in the way of absolutes. Say you live in a house full of afflicted roommates. You give one of them a colorful bouquet of balloons. This may be met with voracious screaming, crying in the corner or dancing on the expensive living room tapestries. You have to be ready for the unexpected. Those balloons may get popped. At very least, completing daily tasks like taking out the trash contain infinite possibilities. I imagine Thursday night dishes to be an exciting tableau of accusations and flying glass! Xiu Xui seem to be showing [...]
Tipps für eine Woche voller besserer Musik. Diese Woche mit Konzerten aus allen Sparten und an allen Ecken. Montag, 26. März Die einfachen Popsongs von I`m from Barcelona sind in Kombination mit ihrem Schulchor-Charme schier unwiderstehlich. Das Kollektiv aus Schweden garantiert trotz Montagstief gute Laune und erste Frühlingsgefühle. Heute spielt die Grossband im Gare de Lion in Wil. [Im Feed kann dieses Video nicht angezeigt werden. Klicke zum Blogeintrag um das Video anzusehen.] Dienstag, [...]
Ha i contorni di Always il nuovo disco di mr. Jamie Stewart aka Xiu Xiu appena uscito per Bella Union - Cooperative Music. L'occasione per ascoltare le composizioni i Xiu Xiu saranno quelle dei due live in Italia: il 2 al Locomotiv di Bologna e il 3 alla Salumeria della Musica di Milano. Un progetto sonoro quello di Stwart che ha sempre colpito gli appassionati di post punk e di elettronica. Continua a leggere Xiu Xiu in Italia: [...]
Que? Zoo and Dr. Skull is the alias for Philly-based Brandon Seawell, who recorded the six songs on Days At the Zoo in his bedroom "with two microphones, a mixer from the Back To the Future era, and my laptop." Three songs from the release are inside
It's been over a decade now, and Jamie Stewart and his motley crew of collaborators are still churning out avant-garde jams that mix art rock with experimental synth pop and just about everything and anything else that you can think of. Xiu Xiu are a band that never shy away from pushing the envelope, which is the reason why a lot of people love them and a lot of people hate them; and, for probably even more, it's both. It is in this way that their latest release, Always, is so befitting. Equal parts calm and listenable, turbulent [...]
The brainchild of Jamie Stewart, Xiu Xiu have just released their eighth studio album Always and are set to play Rich Mix in London this Friday 16 March with Trumpets of Deat h and Colours . We have two pairs of tickets to give away to the Bird on The Wire Presented show. To be in with a chance of winning simply h ead to their facebook page , like them and then like the post they have shared on their wall. Winners will be [...]
In case you missed Part One of this week's Best New Releases, you definitely what to start there first. That playlist offers terrific new singles from The Magnetic Fields, Andrew Bird, Said The Whale, White Rabbits, Bowerbirds, and many others. For the most part, this playlist features all of the other new singles from albums [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
La plupart du temps, la seule prononciation du mot always nous est synonyme de serviettes hygiéniques. Au final, nous n'en sommes pas si loin, tant le nouvel opus des Californiens de Xiu Xiu semble se gorger de sang. Une redondance malsaine, maculant une pop loin d'être proprette, éponge des sentiments délabrés et les expériences malheureuses d'un Jamie Stewart dont les névroses nous sont dévoilées sans retenue. Une recette qu'il érode sur neuf albums indispensables, sans aucune assonance, ni verbiage, faisant fi d'une originalité à toute épreuve, plongeant peu à peu l'auditeur dans un univers aussi morose [...]
Chaque concert de Xiu Xiu peut être vécu comme une apocalypse, une épiphanie ou tout simplement une claque monumentale, tant la musique du groupe, mené par son leader déjanté et perturbé, Jamie Stewart, emmène l'auditeur au bord de la schizophrénie. Super! , agence d'épopées musicales, nous offre l'occasion de découvrir sur scène la nouvelle formation du band de San José qui présentera au public son ultime et sublime album, Always . Pour avoir la chance de gagner une des deux places mises en jeu, envoyez-nous vos nom et prénom à l'adresse hartzine.concours@gmail.com [...]
Véritable catharsis de Jamie Stewart, Xiu Xiu est un groupe inclassable évoluant dans un univers sombre mais trop entraînant pour être réellement déprimant. Évoquant tour à tour Joy Division, The Cure, David Bowie, le groupe originaire de San Jose en Californie est un acteur majeur de la scène indépendante depuis 2002. Leur neuvième album studio, intitulé Always et prévu pour fin février chez Bella Union, reflète l'univers insolite toujours hanté des obsessions de Stewart, dont l'honnêteté artistique n'est pas à remettre en question. Les thèmes des paroles sont parfois autobiographiques ou traitent de thèmes tragiques et d'événements inspirés d'expériences arrivées à des proches ou membres de la famille du chanteur. Musicalement, les [...]
The Men Words : Drake Lelane What's the saying? "March enters like a lion and leaves like a lamb?" Between the sophomore releases from both The Men and Mike Wexler , we've certainly achieved the first part of that equation. Other artists with new releases this week include Andrew Bird, Bruce Springsteen, The Magnetic Fields, Bowerbirds, Time Fite, White Rabbits, Yellow Ostrich, Pond (no, not that one), Xiu Xiu, Nite Jewel, Kaiser Chiefs, Miniature Birds and Said the Whale [...]
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Tweet vaso link Chad VanGaalen's Diaper Island instantly earned a place on my list of favorite releases of 2011. Prior to that I was a fan of his work as producer/engineer of Flemish Eye labelmates Women. His brand of rambling, echoed, jangly folk/rock is unique and infectious and perhaps somewhat of an acquired taste. His voice trembles and his guitar playing has all the sloppiness of punk rock, but, for me at least, it's that fiercely unique sound-representative, no [...]
Xiu Xiu, a decade into its career, returns with another album of songs utterly possessed of Jamie Stewart's unique creative voice. It has become an American tradition: gathering the kids around the phonograph in the living room, you and the missus in matching footie pajamas, your after-work hair tussled just so, a round of big glasses of whole milk in Bobby and Suzie's little hands, all of your loved ones together in one place to have a listen to the new Xiu Xiu record. "This is the worst vacation ever," harmonizes tiny Bobby, "I'm going to...
Record Store Day is gearing up to be a good one this year (April 21st). I've got news on some of the bigger items dropping below. Read more »
B+ | 03.06.12 | POLYVINYL | STREAM | STREAM | MP3 | CD | VINYL In high school I made a stop-motion movie that portrayed an orange and a banana getting to know one another and then proceeding to have intercourse. For the soundtrack, I chose Xiu Xiu. I wanted the movie to convey some sort of emotional weight and the wailings of Jamie Stewart went a long way toward achieving that. Watching the movie now it is clear how [...]
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Jamie Stewart es uno de los tipos mas multifaceticos de los ultimos años y con ello no solamente me refiero a algun tipo de estetica visual sino auditiva: desde que comenzo a crear musica con Xiu Xiu por alla a inicios de los 2000's fue una mente que se fijo objetivos bastante ambisiosos los cuales se vieron perfectamente reflejados dentro de sus primeros albums en los que de alguna manera hacia una especie de folk con tintes sumamente experimentales provocados por elementos mas electronicos y organicos los cuales, podria decirse que en ese momento no habian sido tan [...]
Strange, macabre and anguished.
You guys seemed keen on this weekly round-up of releases when we debuted it last week , so we're back to point you in the direction of some notable releases. There's a great representation of independent bands this week, with Nite Jewel's synth-pop, Andrew Bird's quirky indie stylings and the full on rock of The Men, not to mention a new album from our second favorite Boss. Don't forget to let us know what you think of the albums featured in the comments section. Navigate through the slides by hitting shift + right or clicking [...]
March roars in like a lion with this week's release by Ceremony - yeah, there are like two or three bands with that name, but this is the thrashy hard-core one, rather than the mopey shoegazy one. On their fourth album, produced by Seattle's own John Goodmanson, this California band evolves into what our Music Director, Don Yates, calls "an intense and expansive blend of classic '70s punk and bristling '80s post-punk, with bands like Wire, Mission of Burma and the Sex Pistols being major touchstones on this consistently stellar set of songs ranging from explosive punk ragers [...]
An album that your left ear will enjoy more than your right. Read more »
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