Xiu Xiu's video for "Born To Suffer" starts as a pixelated, gray-scaled pastiche before blossoming into something much more color-rich and evocative, featuring -- amongst other things -- some…   Read Story »

Here's the clip for Shearwater's Animal Joy cut "Immaculate," a quick-hit video that rifles through a carousel of still images, some of Jonathan Meiburg in full-on, PhotoBooth-documented despair,…   Read Story »

You can always count on Xiu Xiu to make your stomach do funny things. The video for "Honeysuckle," a dark twinkle of a synthpop song from their recent album Always, focuses on group member Angela Seo…   Read Story »

Tourmates Xiu Xiu and Dirty Beaches will release a split 7'' for Record Store Day, featuring Xiu Xiu's cover of Erasure's "Always" and Dirty Beaches' cover of Françoise Hardy's "Tu Ne Dis Rien."…   Read Story »

February's Monthly Mix makes up for the grievous error in January's Monthly Mix, namely having omitted Bear In Heaven's "Reflection Of You." No offense (none taken). That song's great! Here it comes…   Read Story »

Earlier this year, we heard the lead-off track to Xiu Xiu's new record, a midtempo, manic track called "Hi." Now, the third track from that release has surfaced; it's a hazy stutter of a song called…   Read Story »

As a part of the fundraising effort for music journalism venture AdHoc.fm, the founders have put together a compilation (and a box set, for a larger donation) featuring artists like Beach Fossils,…   Read Story »

Conceptual art-music frighteners Xiu Xiu have released the video for "Hi," their new fraught-synthpop single, and it's a frantic jumble of the sort of disconnected, often vaguely disturbing imagery…   Read Story »

"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…   Read Story »

Soundscreen Design is an apparel/product design company closely aligned to music. As they put it, "We design, produce, and distribute music-related products ... [aiming] to advance the concept of…   Read Story »