Of course, if we’re going to talk about the “bleakest” Xiu Xiu album to date, it’s probably going to be a result of the lyrics. You won’t be disappointed. As far as the source of Angel Guts: Red ...

Already planning to release a Nina Simone tribute album album titled Nina on Dec. 2, Xiu Xiu have announced that they will release a new album of original material early next year. Titled Angel Guts: ...

“Trust the art, not the artist,” they say. Yet when it comes to Jamie Stewart, the brains behind Bay Area-bred indie-experimental band Xiu Xiu, that saying gets a good, hard twist: trust the art to ...

It says a lot about Xiu Xiu’s excellent new album Angel Guts: Red Classroom that the video for first single “Stupid In The Dark” is almost playful. The Amir Shoucri-directed clip captures a grisly ...

College boyfriends: we’ve all had them. Mine was mostly pretty mean to me as I quixotically pursued him for reasons I cannot explain, but he did know a lot about music, and introduced me to artists ...

Xiu Xiu will release their new album Angel Guts: Red Classroom on February 4 via Polyvinyl in the U.S. and Bella Union in the UK. The record, which was titled after 1979 Japanese erotic film noir ...

Angel Guts: Red Classroom has been perceived by many as the bleakest album Xiu Xiu ever made. Do you see it that way? At the time it began I had a feeling that it was going to end up that way, ...

When Tetsuro, a writer for a porn magazine, watches a "rape" porn that is set in a school, he becomes obsessed with the lead actress, Nami, and tries to find her. He meets her by chance as he arrives ...

The impulse that drove artists such as Suicide, Einsturzende Neubauten and Scott Walker to embark on extraordinary and uncompromising journeys, refusing to flinch in the face of humanity's ugly truths ...