After 20 years and a move to Berlin, Xiu Xiu is still making music for outsiders
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Since its inception more than two decades ago, the experimental rock band Xiu Xiu has danced between extremes. They’ve made music that is somehow both cacophonous and beautiful, frightening yet poignant, avant-garde yet (mostly) melodic. In other words, Xiu Xiu’s music can’t be placed neatly into a box, something the band’s leader, Jamie Stewart, knows a thing or two about. As the prolific band gears up to release “13” Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips” on Friday, Stewart recognizes the ways in which these feelings of otherness have been meaningful for their art and their audience.
