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Live Wire
Former Ghosts
By Craig Outhier
Published: October 1, 2009
...ists of lead composer Freddy Ruppert (he of the one-man industrial-electronic entity This Song Is a Mess But So Am I) and two other noted sonic innovators: Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu and Nika Roza of Zola Jesus. Together, they make angular yet oddly tuneful synth-dominated noise that variously recalls the Dream Academy and mid-'80s 4AD acts like Cabaret...
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Shrapnel
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone’s Vs. Children Takes on Parenthood
By Jason P. Woodbury
Published: July 23, 2009
...gs that people inherit from their parents." The record's maturity doesn't stop at its lyrical themes. Whereas previous records earned comparisons to The Postal Service and Xiu Xiu — given their distorted synths and blip-hop beats — Vs. Children explores organic, worn-in terrain, integrating live drums and acoustic pianos into a fuzzy aest...
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Night & Day
NXNW
SXSW bands make a PHX pit stop on their way back to the NW
By Adriane Goetz
Published: March 19, 2009
...great bands making pit stops in the PHX on their back-and-forth routes to Austin. Portland’s Parenthetical Girls – whose former members went on to form the groups Xiu Xiu and Dead Science – is one such band that is actually connected to the Valley via its drummer, former Phoenician Eddy Crichton. The slender, androgynously attractive, c...
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Live Wire
Xiu Xiu
Painfully alone for a reason, maybe
By Matthew Neff
Published: March 22, 2007
...next Sunday. Songwriter Jamie Stewart, his cousin Caralee McElroy, and drummer Ches Smith come in advance of the April 10 release of Remixed & Covered, a platter of classic Xiu Xiu tunes entertainingly regurgitated and re-envisioned by friends and well-wishers including Devendra Banhart and Marissa Nadler. But don't go see Xiu Xiu for their beautiful ...
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Live Wire
Deerhoof
By Kate Carraway
Published: March 1, 2007
...us about good music. The band members are ingratiated in side projects (one dude left Deerhoof last year to focus on his own thing) and collaborations, among them work with Xiu Xiu, Joanna Newsom, and Danielson Famile, in traditional "in it for the music" fashion. The group has been on Kill Rock Stars since forever, and has been consistently releasing...
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Shrapnel
Anticon Evolution
Sending out feelers
By Mosi Reeves
Published: January 25, 2007
...s to be a rug, or whatever semi-way-over-the-top ambitious shit we used to do before we knew anything. "But I'm excited. I want to put out stuff that's along the lines of Xiu Xiu, A Silver Mt. Zion or Jeff Mangum. The direction I want to push it in is to be more challenging."
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Listen Up
Xiu Xiu
The Air Force
(5 Rue Christine)By Andrew Marcus
Published: September 14, 2006
If the creepy painting on the cover of Xiu Xiu's The Air Force is supposed to depict singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart as Jesus, it's ironic at best: Unlike the traditional singer-songwriter — who plays a guitar and ...
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Listen Up
Various Artists
The Sound the Hare Heard
(Kill Rock Stars)By Tuyet Nguyen
Published: June 8, 2006
...refutably sharp: The KRS roster is a dense handbook on indie-underground innovators and breakthrough wonders ranging from Sleater-Kinney and Elliott Smith to The Gossip and Xiu Xiu. So when the man himself handpicks a selection of artists for a compilation -- both alums of the label and non-Killers -- it would be a damn shame not to expose yourself to...
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Music
If the Xiu Fits
Xiu Xiu confronts the unbearable darkness of being
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: December 8, 2005
For a leading indie-rock miserablist, Jamie Stewart possesses one of the heartiest, most boisterous laughs you're ever likely to hear. The 33-year-old Xiu Xiu (pronounced shoe-shoe) front man typically converses quietly, in a polite, thoughtful, self-effacing, and a bit pensive manner, and then -- when you least expect it -- his ...
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What's Selling
Top 10 best-selling releases at Stinkweeds Records in Tempe
Chart-busters for the week
Published: September 1, 2005
...(Sub Pop) 7. Minus the Bear, Menos el Oso (Suicide Squeeze) 8. Flaming Lips, Void DVD (Warner Bros.) 9. Felt, Felt Vol. 2: A Tribute to Lisa Bonet (Rhymesayers) 10. Xiu Xiu, La Fort (5 Rue Christine)
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Night & Day
This Week's Day-by-day Picks
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: August 18, 2005
...nly the light from black candles illuminating the spider webs around you, while bands like This Mortal Coil wail "I want to die!" in the background, then you must check out Xiu Xiu, an incredibly sad-sounding Seattle outfit that mopes down to Modified Arts, 407 East Roosevelt Street, on Monday, August 22. The band's fourth album, La Fort, oozes from t...
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Inferno
Almost-Almost Famous
P-town's Meg White and Jack Black hang with Xiu Xiu and the art stars of tomorrow at Modified
As told to Stephen Lemons
Published: March 17, 2005
...shifts the stick of her Miata into fifth (the Impala's in the garage, yo). "And don't be spillin' any vodka on my carpet. Anyway, we're almost there, and I don't wanna miss Xiu Xiu." Xiu Xiu (pronounced "shoe-shoe") is a West Coast emo group made up mainly of this Oakland-based dude Jamie Stewart and whoever he happens to be playing with at the time...
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Live Wire
Xiu Xiu
Moody in a good way
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: March 3, 2005
...ing like his papas. Okay, we're kidding about all this, but you can imagine such a situation when listening to Stewart's hypnotic wailing for his indie/emo/post-punk outfit Xiu Xiu. Against a soundscape of drawn-out, warbling synth and guitar, he delivers catchy, melodic, sometimes caterwaul-filled songs about isolation, pain and love, before breaking...
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Live Wire
Xiu Xiu
Experimental sounds run rampant
Jessie Nelson
Published: August 19, 2004
Xiu Xiu's emotionally charged synth-pop finds comfort in '80s music and late-20th-century composers, and finds inspiration in art-rock "do this or die" ideals. On its latest LP, Fa...
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Cafe
Pho Speed Ahead
By Carey Sweet
Published: March 30, 2000
Pho Bang Restaurant, 1702 West Camelback Road, Suite 14, 602-433-9440. Hours: Lunch and dinner, daily, 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Our host, Lee, has brought my dining buddy the wrong so...
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