The innovative and unique Xiu Xiu announces plans to release the devastatingly macabre, appropriately cacophonous new album, titled Ignore Grief (Polyvinyl Records), due for release on March 3, 2023. The current iteration of Xiu Xiu includes existing members Jamie Stewart and Angela Seo, now joined by old friend and new member David Kendrick (Sparks, Devo, Gleaming Spires). The announcement is marked by the confirmation of Spring 2023 U.S. Tour Dates (SEE ALL DATES BELOW), and the release of the album’s menacing first single, “Maybae Baeby.”

Jamie Stewart shares: “In ‘Maybae Baeby,’ the singer’s viewpoint is of a young person hiding in a fantastical conversation with a tarantula in order to escape a physically abusive parent. We were hiding within this fantasy of a fantasy, following the model of the late 1950s subgenre of ‘Teen Tragedy Songs,’ to try and find a way to come to terms with a number of staggeringly horrendous events that occurred to people close to the band over the last 2 years.”

The release of “Maybae Baeby” is accompanied by an unsettling video directed by the band’s Angela Seo, who shares: “The video is, for better or worse, about literal isolation, all the things we tell ourselves to should do or not do, forcing open a small crack and crawling deep into it, even if we know we shouldn’t, just to get away to somewhere else, even if it’s worse.”

Xiu Xiu – Spring 2023 U.S. Tour Dates

04/02 – San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar

04/03 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar

04/04 – Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole

04/05 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sister Bar

04/06 – Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves

04/07 – Austin, TX @ Elysium

04/09 – New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa

04/10 – Baton Rouge, LA @ Chelsea’s Live

04/12 – Memphis, TN @ Greenroom – Crosstown Arts

04/13 – Nashville, TN @ The Blue Room – Third Man Records

04/14 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl

04/15 – Savannah, GA @ Lodge Of Sorrows

04/16 – Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall

04/18 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat

04/19 – New York, NY @ LPR

04/20 – Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA

04/21 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery

04/22 – Harrisburg, PA @ Stage on Herr

04/23 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom

04/25 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle

04/26 – Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club

04/27 – Rock Island, IL @ Rozz Tozz

04/28 – Iowa City, IA @ Trumpet Blossom

04/29 – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck

04/30 – Denver, CO @ HQ

05/01 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge

05/03 – Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project

05/04 – Portland, OR @ Holocene

05/05 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel

05/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon