Today, Xiu Xiu announces plans to release a delightfully wide-ranging collection of covers that have previously only been available through subscription, titled Xiu Mutha Fuckin’ Xiu: Vol. 1, and due for release January 16, 2026 on Polyvinyl. The announcement is accompanied by Xiu Xiu’s cover of “Cherry Bomb” originally by The Runaways, with the B-side “Some Things Last a Long Time” originally by Daniel Johnston.

Jamie Stewart shares: “We have a long history of doing covers and have done 3 albums of covers. The enduring and basic throughline with all of them is an attempt to say thank you to those songs. They are all in one way or another pieces of music that have moved us and exploring them in a deep way is a small honorific offering to the muse that created them. We never approach them thinking ‘How can we improve these’ but really “What can we learn from these?’”

With regard to the covers of The Runaways and Daniel Johnston, they add: “Unexpectedly I (forgive this melodramatic admission) cried while singing the Daniel Johnston song. If there ever were a sincere and wounded voice in the world it is his.” Further adding: “I love Joan Jett and I love being bad and this song is all about both.”