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 ...

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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: ...

Nami is a staff member at an exclusive department store. Her libido is chiefly satisfied alone, until a co-worker talks her into subbing on a porno modeling job. Her appearance in the magazine Red ...

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 ...

Last week Xiu Xiu released their grisly, violent video for the Angel Guts: Red Classroom single "Stupid In The Dark," and it ended up being our favorite video of the week. Now they have another one ...

Nami is a department store worker who agrees to stand in for a friend in a magazine photo shoot, which turns out to be for an S&M magazine. When the photos are published, she is sacked and her lover ...

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 ...

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 ...