Xiu Xiu are people of taste. This is obvious based on their decades of brilliant, provocative musical output, but also based on their selection of covers. Songs like New Order’s “Ceremony” and David Bowie and Queen’s “Under Pressure” are sprinkled throughout their catalog, and they’ve released full-length tributes to Nina Simone and the music of […]

Last month ex-Blood member Julian McCamman announced a new album My Heart Is A Room With No Cameras In It from his solo project Victoryland. He released the lead single “No Cameras,” a gloriously blistering indie rock spell that conjured the Cure’s Robert Smith and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. This week, he’s back with […]

The beloved Welsh indie-pop crew Los Campesinos! are a truly DIY institution. The band members serve as their own managers, publicists, and bookers. They have no record label. Last year, the band released All Hell, their first album in seven years, entirely on their own. A year and a half after its release, Los Campesinos! […]