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Is it just me or is everyone moving to Berlin these days? Case in point: Xiu Xiu, whose recent relocation there from Los Angeles served as a major motivator behind their new album 13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips, out in September. The experimental stalwarts are previewing the record with its lead single “Common Loon,” which arrives alongside a very NSFW video.
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Philadelphia BTW Cold Cave is an interesting entity, straddling noise, synth-pop, darkwave, power electronics, and art/transgressive literature via their Heartworm Press. (You might recognize their current cover star Marti Domination from Cremaster 1.) Wesley Eisold remains the central creator, it seems, but he's joined by a revolving cast that ...
Time for another tobacco ad-related indie rock controversy! Remember when Rolling Stone and Camel featured a whole gang of bands in their "Indie Rock Universe" fold-out advertisement, pissing some bands off to the point where Fucked Up and Xiu Xiu actually filed class-action lawsuits against both companies?Now, Marlboro's MXBeat concert series...
Photo by David HorvitzWhen Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart does the solo-acoustic thing, he doesn't exactly render his band's noise-pop in Starbucks-friendly form. Next year, Stewart plans to release a new Xiu Xiu record called Dear God, I Hate Myself, so that should give you some idea of what you'll be getting with solo Stewart. If he doesn't make your...
'Tis the season for giving and hall-decking and so forth, and in the spirit of both, Oregon's Glass Casters Union is back with another round of indie rock-themed charity ornaments.Last year, the GCU offered up decorations designed by the likes of Wolf Parade, Band of Horses, Of Montreal, Deerhunter, and, for those bad-ass little boys and girls, ...


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