May 27, 2022
Jamie Stewart is the front man and
founder of the band Xiu Xiu. Xiu Xiu's music is drawn
from British post punk and synth pop, modern Western classical,
noise and experimental musics, Asian percussion musics, American
folk, torch singers, house, techno and 1950s rock n
roll. Jamie and best friend Angela Seo started the band in
2002 while living in San Jose, California. Since then Xiu Xiu has
relentlessly toured all over the world since. The music has
been called “self flagellating”, “harsh”, “brutal”, “shocking” and
“perverse” but also “genius”, “brilliant”, “unique”, “imaginative”
and “luminous.”