The XX

In a recent Young Turks takeover of Australia’s FBi radio cast, Jamie xx premiered the latest incarnation of “Touch Me,” a steel drum-led song we first heard about a year…

Probably our favorite of all of the Christmas gifts music’s given us this weekend was the xx sharing a new demo, our first taste of what’s to come. The band…

Radiohead have released three new King of Limbs remixes that apparently did not make it onto their freshly released TKOL RMX 1234567 remix album. One of the new remixes is…

Here’s the track we’ve all been waiting for – Rihanna’s the xx-sampling “Drunk on Love”. We should have known she was going to go with “Intro”. Listen below; Talk That…

A message from the band:

For the next three weeks, FACT Magazine is allowing you to download the unbelievably awesome mix Jamie xx made for them. It’s a half hour long and without a tracklist. We hear…

At some point last night, I was surprised to find a snippet of a new song by the xx on my Reader. As with any “snippet” or “early demo”, take…

Jamie xx has been keeping himself busy while his main gig — working as one third of the xx — has been on pause, releasing a remix album with the…

Passed from the xx, the royal family of sexy minimalism, to their counterparts, the dukes and duchesses of sinister, cold house music behind Hercules and Love Affair, “Shelter” is a…

The tropical island sensation that is Jamie xx‘s “Far Nearer” was first posted in October of last year when a radio ripped version leaked. Now the prolific DJ/producer has dropped…

It seems Jamie xx is everywhere he can be these days. His latest reworking of Gil Scott Heron’s I’m New Here, dubbed We’re New Here, is out this Tuesday and…

B- | XL | 2.22.11 | MOG | AMAZON | INSOUND On “I’ve Been Me,” the penultimate track of Gil Scott-Heron’s fantastic 2010 album I’m New Here, he states it…

When The xx first came out with their stellar debut album in 2009, it slightly irritated me that they did not add vocals or elaborate on the dope melodies that…

Jamie Smith, the xx’s resident electro-shuffle genius, has churned out a great remix a week for the last little while, and the latest offering from his incongruous but fascinating attempt…

There might not be two people on this earth as different as spoken-word and soul artist Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie Smith of British electro-ambient trio the xx, which makes Smith’s…

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, where would we be without BBC Radio 1? Well, we’d still have that excellent remix Jamie xx (you know, of the…

Originally posted on December 1, 2010. Reposted because of the official announcement of its release. Jamie Smith, the xx’s prolific beat-maker, has had a busy few weeks, he has recently…

Atmospheric UK trio the xx partnered up with Pitchfork TV to kick off the website’s new series “Surveillance,” featuring great bands playing great songs through simulated surveillance cameras. The band…

Move over Salem and oOoOO, there’s a new witch house outfit in town. The female duo of Lauren Dillard and Lauren Flax, hailing from Brooklyn NY, are producing chilly, goth-like…

A couple of days ago we posted a video of The xx’s beatsmith Jamie Smith premiering a new remix of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” (the video has since been…