The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. Xiu Xiu founder Jaimie Stewart has always been a ...

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 ...

HEALTH have released another of their collaborative singles. They’ve all been with awesome artists across various genres of music, and this one’s with Xiu Xiu, who is unsurprisingly a perfect match ...

This week’s best new songs come from all over. The last week in January saw new tracks from masters of unexpected sounds like Xiu Xiu, Squid, Madlib and Serpentwithfeet, plus exciting emerging artists ...

Xiu Xiu have announced a new album of duets. It’s called OH NO and it’s out March 26 via Polyvinyl. It features collaborations with Sharon Van Etten, Chelsea Wolfe, Alice Bag, Haley Fohr of Circuit ...

Xiu Xiu are releasing a new album, Ignore Grief, on March 3 via Polyvinyl. Now they have shared the album’s second single, “Pahrump,” via a music video directed by the band’s Angela Seo. Watch it ...

Prior to Xiu Xiu, Stewart had played in a band called Ten In The Swear Jar, a jazzy experimental pop outfit that, in its eclectic zeal, laid the groundwork for Xiu Xiu’s outré approach to song ...

Xiu Xiu%27s %27Nina%27 comes out Dec. 3 on Graveface Records The album contains covers of songs associated with jazz singer Nina Simone%27s career Xiu Xiu will ...

Art-pop argument-starters Xiu Xiu have a new album coming out; the charmingly titled Dear God, I Hate Myself is due February 23 from Kill Rock Stars. Jamie Stewart and co. have also put together some ...

“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 ...

This city has no shortage of strange happenings for those willing to discover them. Art and culture are ubiquitous here, and if they sometimes seem to have vanished, you likely aren’t looking in the ...

In a freezing movie theater on Gena Rowlands’s birthday this past June, I watched Peter Falk’s palm make harsh contact with skin on screen and haven’t shaken the crowd’s reaction since. John ...