“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 places. His new Xiu Xiu LP is called ...

Between the World Cup’s conclusion hijacking the standard operating procedure of most any establishment serving alcohol and space enough for a TV screen, and Jelly NYC’s Pool Parties kick off at the East River State Park, on Sunday the greater Williamsburg area was even more a playground of creatively outfitted drunken dilet...

Last night at the Donaufestival in Lower Austria, Jamie Stewart collaborated with labelmates Deerhoof on a complete run-through of Joy Division’s 1979 debut Unknown Pleasures. Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier is sort of an honorary Xiu Xiu member, so things were likely pretty cozy. And now Stewart can now scratch covering a Joy Division r...

As far as visual treatments, shape-shifting BTW Cold Cave have given us Love Comes Close’s “Life Magazine” as an excellently campy video starring Marti Domination and a cheerful RadioShack holiday ad. Sonically, it rests somewhere between the two. The original was sung by ex-Xiu Xiu member Caralee McElroy, who&#...

When posting the vomit-inducing video for Dear God, I Hate Myself’s title track, we learned that the song’s synth-lined gothic bleep and thump was created primarily on a Nintendo DS. In testament to Jamie Stewart’s instrument of choice, “This Too Shall Pass (For Freddy)” plays like an &#8217...