Xiu Xiu
Taking their name from the 1998 Chinese film {#Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl}, post-punk throwbacks Xiu Xiu were formed in San Jose, CA, by Cory McCullough, Yvonne Chen (publisher of the indie zine Zum), Lauren Andrews, and Jamie Stewart. Before forming Xiu Xiu, McCullough and Stewart played in the band Ten in the Swear Jar. Prior to the 2002 release of their first full-length album, Knife Play (released on vinyl through Absolutely Kosher and on disc through 5RC/Kill Rock Stars), the band made appearances on numerous compilations. Shortl...[more]
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Half live concert footage, half music video; You Can't Hear Me is a series of experimental vignettes that expound upon the dark irony of the accompanying performances from the critically acclaimed band, Xiu Xiu. From jellyfish floating in the sky to hand-drawn animation, award winning director Courtney Fathom Sell explores a variegated palette of expression. Featuring favorite tracks like "Bog People," "Boy Soprano," and "F.T.W.," the latest single from their recently released LP, Women As Lovers< [ read more ]
DVD $17.99
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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of Women as Lovers and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. Xiu Xiu has long been known as prolific, bordering on crazed, but with this new album, each song is so different from the next and so fully realized, the group's creative ferocity is simply astonishing and rapidly taking on new dimensions. No other Xiu Xiu album has ever been more approachable or communicative on a basic human [ read more ]
2xLP $13.99
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Xiu Xiu has long been known as prolific, bordering on crazed, but with this new album, each song is so different from the next and so fully realized, the group's creative ferocity is simply astonishing and rapidly taking on new dimensions. No other Xiu Xiu album has ever been more approachable or communicative on a basic human level. 'Sounding as brilliant and maddening as ever, tortured and combative, and with a kind of confrontational intimacy that is inimitable' - Salon.
MP3 $10.49
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Xiu Xiu has long been known as prolific, bordering on crazed, but with this new album, each song is so different from the next and so fully realized, the group's creative ferocity is simply astonishing and rapidly taking on new dimensions. No other Xiu Xiu album has ever been more approachable or communicative on a basic human level. 'Sounding as brilliant and maddening as ever, tortured and combative, and with a kind of confrontational intimacy that is inimitable' - Salon.
MP3 $9.99
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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of A Promise and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. Whereas current indie-rock darlings Interpol have taken all the favorite parts from your favorite new wave bands and fashioned them into refreshing new pop songs, San Francisco's Xiu Xiu have salvaged all of the ignored dark fragments of your favorite new wave songs and turned them into some refreshingly disconcerting new anti-pop so [ read more ]
LP $12.99
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This is an 18" x 24" Xiu Xiu show poster for the March 18, 2008 show with Thao and the Get Down Stay Down and Fucked Corpse at Babylon. Hand-signed, numbered and designed by Doublenaut.
Poster $23.99
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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of La Foret and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. To hear Xiu Xiu play is to be shaken, disturbed, and shown something original. This is the kind of thing that makes even the most confessional-driven emo sound fake and vague, the type of record that leaves you seasick.
LP $13.99
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Xiu Xiu has long been known as prolific, bordering on crazed, but with this new album, each song is so different from the next and so fully realized, the group's creative ferocity is simply astonishing and rapidly taking on new dimensions. No other Xiu Xiu album has ever been more approachable or communicative on a basic human level. "Sounding as brilliant and maddening as ever, tortured and combative, and with a kind of confrontational intimacy that is inimitable" - Salon.
CD $14.99
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VINYL FORMAT. This five-song EP is the second self-contained effort from these remarkable folks from San Jose, following the release of their album "Knife Play" (which Pitchfork named as one of the top albums for the first half of 2002). This EP contains five new songs including the sparse and intense "I Am Center of Your World," the viciously potent "Jennifer Lopez," and a raw cover of the Joy Division/New Order classic "Ceremony."
LP $11.99
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This three-piece crafts sickeningly intimate art that is equally sensual and icy. With damaged, wraithlike dance beats and grim electro minimalism, it cuts you like nails across bare thighs, but just the same, it'll brush your hair from your face, look deep into your eyes, and say, "I feel the same as you sometimes. We're not too different, are we?" Xiu Xiu and friends do this and more on this new double CD set of covers and remixes. The first disc features covers by Sunset Rubdown, Devendra Banhart, Kid 60 [ read more ]
CD $13.99
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A feverish and disturbing set of songs, but it's also some of the group's most accessible. His songs play out like bedroom symphonies, bedroom confessions over chimes and gonging bells and industrial beats and buttery guitar leads that slide through the songs like a straight razor opening up skin. Elaborate, ornate, and bubbling over with noise, but with a sense of less-is-more; minimalism over excess. A 35-minute dreamscape of scraping urgency that haunts and disturbs.[ read more ]
MP3 $9.99
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