This month, Stewart and the group released "Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks" (Polyvinyl Records), and they are currently on tour playing Angelo Badalamenti's award-winning score as a trio, with a stop at the Kitchen on April 30.
"It's another avenue through which our musicians can be discovered, which is always a good thing," said Seth Hubbard, a manager at Polyvinyl Records in San Francisco, which works with Shazam to put its songs into the database even before they are released.
Psychedelic rockers of Montreal released their 13th album, Aureate Gloom (Polyvinyl Records), this spring.
Nanna is the longtime guitarist and singer for Braid (now on Polyvinyl Records), but also leader of the relatively short-lived emo upstarts Hey Mercedes.
It embraced me in my faux-Edie Sedgwick phase defined by bad tights and too much eyeshadow, it allowed the weird wool dresses I started wearing after getting too deep into Polyvinyl records' catalogue, and it has proved me wrong every time I've gone there with reservations.
The production capacity of the business is fixed, based on the number of pressing plants and the quantity and efficiency of the machines that melt and stamp pellets of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) into records.
At 7 30 p.m., Madison Square Garden, (866) 858-0008, thegarden.com; $30 to $75. (Anderson) Of Montreal (Tuesday) These unflinching oddballs, borne of the famed Elephant Six musical collective of Atlanta, tread deeply personal yet warped grounds on their latest record, "Paralytic Stalks" (Polyvinyl).
(Anderson) Of Montreal (Wednesday) These unflinching oddballs, borne of the famed Elephant Six musical collective of Atlanta, tread deeply personal yet warped grounds on their latest record, "Paralytic Stalks" (Polyvinyl).
(Anderson) Of Montreal (Friday and Saturday) These unflinching oddballs, borne of the famed Elephant Six musical collective of Atlanta, tread deeply personal yet warped grounds on their latest record, "Paralytic Stalks" (Polyvinyl).
Stateside, the group has a new record, "Fly By Wire" (Polyvinyl), that evokes the Beach Boys at their sunniest.
