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Haha, JK. I'm excited about old school Xiu Xiu recordings. You should be too. According to Austrian imprint Beatismurder-- who will drop Xiu Xiu's Untitled David Horvitz Picture Disc 7" this month-- we should "imagine a more reduced Knife Play-era Xiu Xiu" to "get an idea about what the 3 tracks on this [release] sound like." If you swear by Knife Play, this here's some swell news. Uber-swell, even.

As its non-title suggests, the 7" features photography from Xiu Xiu documentarian David Horvitz, along with three proto-Xiu jams that Jamie Stewart recently rediscovered on an ancient cassette tape, which is this primitive mode of audio storage that predates the mp3.

Xiu Xiu just put out the Remixed & Covered double-disc set, the final release on 5RC (R.I.P.). If you believe the Xiu's antics-ridden website, "the 'Covers' disc has Claire Huxtable, Rudy Huxtable, Cliff Huxtable, Denise Huxtable, Theo Huxtable and Dillweed Huxtable playing Xiu Xiu songs. The 'Remixes' disc has Ghandi [sic] and Malcolm X remixing a Xiu Xiu song each." Dillweed, huh?

As previously reported, sleep-averse Stewart joins an elite indie panel entrusted with selecting the best XBXRX video in the history of ever. Xiu Xiu, meanwhile, embark tomorrow night on the portion of their spring tour that involves Sunset Rubdown.

Walk a mile in my Xius:

04-11 Montreal, Quebec - Club Lambi *
04-12 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace *
04-13 Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig *
04-14 Bloomington, IN - WUIX Culture Shock at Indiana University *
04-16 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive *
04-17 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge *
04-19 Seattle, WA - Neumos *
04-20 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom *
04-22 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill *
04-23 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill *
04-24 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour *

* with Sunset Rubdown, Katie Eastburn