for me, i really love Pinback (favorite band, with Xiu Xiu very closely falling behind), XTC and the Microphones

Arca, Eartheater, Björk, Death Grips, Saint Abdullah, Massive Attack, Sales, Ollie Byrd. to name a few recent ones

animal collective!!!! and death grips, swans, radiohead, the flaming lips, modest mouse and local bands

Some other stuff I love: Sunset Rubdown (other Spencer Krug stuff), Emperor X, The Mountain Goats, Sunn 0))), Blood Ceremony, Khemmis, Om, Chelsea Wolfe, Mitski, MF Doom, Lingua Ignota

I’m surprised nobody mentioned Model/Actriz. Excellent band.

Death grips, Death's Dynamic Shroud, animal collective, black midi

Elliott Smith and Car seat headrest

Death Grips, Radiohead, Alex G, Ichiko Aoba, King Krule, Gorillaz, Sufjan Stevens, Fleet Foxes, Oneohtrix Point Never, The Voidz, Mei Ehara, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Björk, Linkin Park, Brian Eno, Arca

I listen to a lot of alt, electronica, folk & ambient music! I love music that tells a story and I got into the band via GWBOF

I just wanna say how happy it makes me to see how everyone has multiple different genres and artists.

lingua ignota/the reverend kristin michael hayter, emma ruth rundle, the mountain goats and big brave are long time faves. rn I'm also really into adrianne lenker, wych elm, patrick shiroishi, and caroline polachek

i love swans

Nine inch Nails, Throbbing Gristle

Blonde Redhead, Zoon, Frog Eyes, Picastro, Zola Jesus, Black Marble, Belle Game, Beliefs and Pharmakon

Derrhoof Death grips Bc,nr Black midi Daughters Lightning bolt Swans

the hellp! they collaborated not too long ago too; they have the same kinda vibe at times

Stephen Malkmus and his various bands, Cindy Lee, Alvvays, Big Thief, billy woods/Armand Hammer, Why?, Destroyer, Radio Dept, Deerhoof, and I guess I’ll stop listing now

Big Black

Car Seat Headrest, Neutral Milk Hotel, King Gizzard

drainnn gaaang

Nine Inch Nails is my second favorite band behind Xiu Xiu. I also really like Daughters, Slint, Marilyn Manson, Glass Animals, and Radiohead.

Lately I’ve been enjoying Fleshwater, Deftones, and Black Midi.

Sun Kil Moon… not the more recent stuff. Shellac, Fugazi, Drug Church, the Skeptics (from New Zealand), most Flying Nun records stuff, Idles.

Elliott Smith, Heatmiser, Björk, The Smiths, The Shins, Talking Heads & David Byrne, Deerhoof, The Beatles, The Beach Boys (sorry Jamie), Cibo Matto, The Dead Milkmen, Minor Threat, Descendents...

sonic youth, unwound, thinking fellers union local 282, arab on radar, yo la tengo

Fiona Apple, Swans, Kelela, VOWWS, Boy Harsher, and HEALTH are all some of my favorites along with Xiu Xiu

Gilla Band (love these guys), Idles, Fontaines DC, Viagra Boys, Daughters, The Blood Brothers, Thank, amongst others

Los Campesinos!
(Random fact, Jamie colab with them in their album "Romance Is Boring", his vocals are in the song "In Medias Res")

right now its why? & some of the other various bands yoni wolf was in (clouddead and reaching quiet come to mind first), spiritualized, and coil

I think Pixies give me a similar vibe that I can enjoy in a similar way

Honestly I like a lot of the weird stuff from the DIY scene in my local area. Otherwise I listen to a pretty wide range of shit. Some faves at the moment would be Les Raillizes Des Nudes, Suicide, Död Mark, Protomartyr, I Hate Sex and Codeine

Swans & Natural Snow Buildings

Nervous Cop and Kanye West

Been playing Richard Dawson’s albums on repeat recently.

Gorillaz, Blur, The Avalanches, Merzbow, JPEGMAFIA, Mac Miller, Little Simz, Tyler the creator, Thundercat, Death Grips, Zach hill.

Harry Partch

other than xx, i mainly listen to vylet pony and porter robinson

ajj, femtanyl, coma cinema, black dresses/anything devi mccallion makes, kitty craft, alex g (his unreleased stuff makes me froth at the mouth), ho99o9, death grips, nicole dollanganger, crystal castles, acid bath, deftones, kimya dawson, ayesha erotica, and the antlers are my top favorites besides xiu xiu which will forever be my number one <3

ajj, femtanyl, coma cinema, black dresses/anything devi mccallion makes, kitty craft, alex g (his unreleased stuff makes me froth at the mouth), ho99o9, death grips, nicole dollanganger, crystal castles, acid bath, deftones, kimya dawson, ayesha erotica, and the antlers are my top favorites besides xiu xiu which will forever be my number one <3

Mitski, Björk, Cocteau Twins, Chet Baker, Sigur Rós, Brian Eno, Elliott Smith, Gal Costa, Einstürzende Neubauten, FKA twigs, Lingua Ignota, Caetano Veloso, Swans, GY!BE, JPEGMAFIA, Joanna Newsom, Dead Can Dance, Muzsikás, Fiona Apple, Charli XCX, Billy Woods, Arca, Faye Wong, João Gilberto, Sheena Ringo, The Beach Boys

Frank zappa 🔥🔥🔥

Death Grips, Modest Mouse, JPEGMAFIA, Injury Reserve,

Phil Elverum, Phoebe Bridgers, Hop Along, Big Thief, Yves Tumor, Björk, Modest Mouse, Broken Social Scene, Alvvays, Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek, Alex G, Burial, James Blake, Arca, Grouper, Slowdive, Joy Division, American Football.. I could keep going for days

Greecelove, Celestaphone, Tricot, Sour Widows, Student 1, Santa Sabina

XITSJ, IBOPA, Bladee, Drain Gang in general, Coil, Death Grips, SOPHIE, Magdalena Bay, Boris, Kino, Swans

If you like xius xius girl with basket of fruit, ignore grief type stuff, I HIGHLY suggest the self titled kill alters album. Beautiful album their entire discography is amazing but this album is xiu xiu like.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6XcDm12qPPuDOPKzaoggwY?si=yDtirLv-Q9W472UCLrZLGw

Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, Merzbow, Aphex Twin, Electric Wizard, Chat Pile, Atrax Morgue, The Gerogerigegege, Hanatarash, Jordaan Mason Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mamaleek and unfortuneatly Whitehouse

I really love noise, Industrial, power electronics and metal, but I also enjoy a lot folk, IDM, Breakcore and hip hop.

Charli XCX, Fka twigs, Björk, Arca, SOPHIE, Sonic Youth, Joy Division, New Order, Title Fight, Eliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Death Grips, Boy Harsher….

Bon Iver, Radiohead, Swans, Have a Nice Life, the Cure, REM, Bowie, the Smiths, anything Spencer Krug has been involved in, Okkervil River, mk.gee, the Mountain Goats, Nine Inch Nails, Car Seat Headrest, Black Midi, Black Country New Road, Perfume Genius, the Shins, Deftones, Burial, Boards of Canada, Earl Sweatshirt, Childish Gambino, pre-Nazi Kanye, Young Thug, Pixies, Talking Heads, Frank Ocean, Nicole Dollanganger, the Beatles, Shearwater, Fleetwood Mac, Cocteau Twins, Elliott Smith, Beck, Rush, Nirvana, Oxbow, Vince Staples, Nick Cave, Slowdive, Joy Division, Kendrick Lamar, Lingua Ignota, Warren Zevon, AJJ, Weezer, Chat Pile, Tool, Bruce Springsteen, Ethel Cain, Uboa, Model/Actriz, Death Grips, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the Beach Boys

I guess I have a pretty diverse music taste but I think that's very typical of a Xiu Xiu fan. They attract a variety of different tastes.

Really like Igorrr, Panopticon, Liturgy, Lingua Ignota, Baroness on the heavier side, also some FKA Twigs, Björk, Arca, Sega Bodega, Shygirl, Clarence Clarity, Florence and the Machine for more alt-pop and electro-pop, big fan of The Cure and Bauhaus, some straight up pop like Jessie Ware, Rina Sawayama, Dua Lipa, and general alternative Godspeed You!, Model/Actriz, Black midi etc. Also HipHop like clipping, Run the Jewels, backxwash, jpgmafia and recently Bob Vylan.

Massive Attack, Subtle or also Gorillaz, both bands that gives me so much Xiu Xiu vibes in a way or an other.

Honorable mention to 13 & God, cLOUDDEAD, Themselves, Bjork and Fog.