Xiu Xiu plans to pull their music from Spotify, taking a page from Deerhoof’s book. The bands’ exodus stems from Daniel Ek’s ...

Xiu Xiu are planning to remove their music from Spotify. “It is taking longer than we had hoped due to procedurally ...

A San Francisco indie band slammed Spotify as a “garbage hole” and announced it would be removing its music over the ...

Last month Deerhoof announced that they were in the process of getting their music removed from Spotify, citing CEO Daniel Ek ...

Daniel Ek's investments in AI dronemaker Helsing have unnerved artists. One called Spotify a "violent armageddon portal." ...

“Xiu Xiu is certainly not for everybody. But it is for very specific people, generally for people who are, in one way or another, kind of on the edge of some aspect of life,” Stewart said.

The point is that Xiu Xiu is a band with lore. Most — if not all — of Xiu Xiu’s albums deal in some aspect with Stewart’s trauma, resulting in soundscapes that are oftentimes uncomfortable, sticky and ...

Xiu Xiu’s latest album is called Dear God, I Hate Myself, which so neatly encompasses the band’s ethos that it could serve as a title for a greatest-hits collection.

Sweet, unsettling, sour, light, anxious, robust, beautiful, horrifying, saccharine, sardonic, misanthropic: These are the words I imagine make up the conceptual mood board of Xiu Xiu. The group’s ...

Xiu Xiu have returned with details of their 12th studio album. Billed as a collection of duets, OH NO will arrive March 26th via Polyvinyl and features the likes of Sharon Van Etten, Owen Pallett ...

On Xiu Xiu's new album, Nina, the California avant-garde group takes up that challenge. On Nina, streaming at USA TODAY in advance of its Dec. 3 release date, Xiu Xiu makes a foray into ...

With the scorching, dry spring heat descending upon Phoenix, San Francisco’sart rockers Xiu Xiu rolled into town just in time to up the ante with theirblistering sonic blasts of stark, sweaty ...