Wham!'s "Last Christmas" is one of the all-time great cheesed-out holiday songs, but it's got a simple, heart-heavy longing at its core, and so maybe it's not such a shock that the xx would consider…   Read Story »

Barcelona's dank Balearic beat maker John Talabot and countryman/house producer Pional have already collaborated to great effect twice this year -- see "Destiny," from Talabot's murked-out afterhours…   Read Story »

Earlier this year, the great British electronic producer Four Tet released Pink, an excellent and somewhat underrated collection of dance singles. In the past, Four Tet has remixed the xx's "VCR" and…   Read Story »

On Friday night, the xx came through Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and played "Chained," the hushed and skeletal single from their new album Coexist. On the show, they played a version of the song…   Read Story »

Virtually the entire music-blogging universe (except me) is at CMJ right now, so you'll have to forgive the indie music universe for neglecting to drop too many videos in the past seven days. I…   Read Story »

In the xx's new video for "Chained," one of the standout songs from their new album from Coexist, we see the group's three members as they plunge, in extreme and near-fetishistic slo-mo, into a giant…   Read Story »

On the most recent episode of the BBC's Later With Jools Holland, British minimal-pop heroes the xx came through to play their delicate, insinuating single "Angels," bringing their gigantic…   Read Story »

Once upon a time, the reliably awesome British producer remixed the xx's first-album single "VCR." And now that the xx have finally gotten around to releasing their (pretty great, in my opinion)…   Read Story »

We're rebooting our popular Deconstructing franchise, which kicked off in February of this year. In this space, a rotating cast of writers will offer opinions on, well, almost anything: an artist, an…   Read Story »

Next week, the xx will release Coexist, their extremely anticipated sophomore album, which strips the already hushed and intimate sound of their self-titled debut back even further. We've already…   Read Story »