Xiu Xiu / (R) – Split

“It took me a long time to come around to ZZ Top. When I was a kid I thought they were a joke band and their beards and campy sexuality freaked me out. Later on Xiu Xiu tours we would and still do always listen to the Black Flag tour diary “Get in the Van” wherein Henry Rollins mentions playing ZZ Top to all the punks in England telling them it was the new Exploited record and watching them cry… We were asked by the A.V. Club covers series to play a song from a list they had chosen. Everything on the list was a bunch of 90s RnB that I was never into or lame-o indie rock EXCEPT for “Sharp Dressed Man.” -Jamie Stewart