Talk:Jamie Stewart (American musician)

Move to "Jamie Stewart"
The Xiu Xiu-related Jamie Stewart appears to be the primary topic. Any thoughts on a move request to move the current page to a disambiguation of the name? czar ♔  21:33, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Jamie Stewart (singer): 31 hits/day
 * Jamie Stewart (bassist): 8 hits/day
 * Jamie B. Stewart: 1 hit/day
 * Jamie Stewart (EastEnders): 1 hit/day

Age
I've removed the age until it can be verified. Several interviews (http://www2.citypaper.com/music/story.asp?id=5327, http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2008/01/xiu-xiu-truth-or-dare) indicate he is 41-42 rather than 36. - 166.179.68.20 (talk) 11:35, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, 166.179 removed a HuffPo bio that used "1978", the year he also used in a Diffuser.fm interview. czar ♔  14:20, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm restoring the age as cited, but I'll add a note that other interviews have placed his birth year in 1972. Best to give all of the information than none, in this case. It's possible that these earlier interviews took the wrong birth year from Wikipedia, making it citogenesis, but I think the right thing to do is to cite it as what he said and what they said. czar ♔  14:29, 20 May 2014 (UTC) Eh, maybe not. These sources http://www.dailyiowan.com/2010/03/31/Arts/16424.html, http://www.spin.com/articles/video-game-video-xiu-xiu/, http://citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-4032-music_an_honest_man_and_his_band.html place him at 1972, and this one at 1970. It's possible that he misreported his age, but I still think we should show the variance in citations. I'll sit on this for a little czar  ♔  14:45, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Jamie Stewart of xiu xiu entry
hello czar, this is jamie stewart from the band xiu xiu. i wanted to ask you if it would be possible to edit my page which you seem largely responsible for creating. while clearly you have done a lot of work on it, most of the information focuses on a band that i was in more than 15 years ago, that never toured and only self released two small press cds and one 7inch. i was wondering if it would be possible to make the entry as simple as possible, basically stating all the bands i have played in, where i live and some very basic biographical information. though ibopa was fruitful, it s was a brief chapter in my musical life and the emphasis on it seems a little unbalanced based on xiu xiu's (and 7 or 8 other bands) subsequent 12 years and over 50 releases. if i were to send you a potential edit, would you consider approving it? it is very confusing for music writers and leads to my having to do a lot of unwarranted explaining in interview preparations. please contact me by my email is xiuxiuforlife@gmail.com thank you so much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamiefromxiuxiu (talk • contribs) 21:22, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Farm-Fresh eye.png User_talk:Czar/2014_May–Aug – czar   08:01, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

why is this being ignored?
hi czar i am wondering why you are continuing to have my wiki entry essentially be a unbalanced "early" work entry and then essentially a second but incomplete xiu xiu entry. can you please explain to me why you will not submit the entry i requested? what difference does it make to you? the difference it makes to me as i explained is that it is disrespectful to my former band mates and confusing to music writers. please consider that the effort you are making redundant, incomplete and pointless. thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.34.231.87 (talk) 00:34, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Ten in the Swear Jar
 Support split -Parts of this article should be split into Ten in the Swear Jar (XITSJ). The last paragraph of the "Early_life_and_career" section contains multiple references talking about the band. Given that Tiny Mix Tapes and Pitchfork Media have both reviewed Accordion Solo!, using a "top down" approach to article creation (if the album is notable, the band is also likely to be notable), the XITSJ should be recreated with proper references. Thoughts? --Jax 0677 (talk) 06:50, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Notability is not inherited. The album can perhaps stand on its own as an article, but I scoured to find the extant sources on XITSJ. There might be a more in databases, but I haven't had a chance to dig yet. As it stands, there isn't enough (significant) coverage to write more than a stub. The sourcing also fits better in this article, as the majority of the coverage is about JS. I suggest that the section stay here and expand out summary style, if ever necessary. czar ⨹   07:01, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

July 2014 minutiae
At home, Stewart briefly played in several other bands before being kicked out, and a high school friend suggested that he start his own band, which became IBOPA, an acronym of the Indestructible Beat of Palo Alto. The name was based on The Indestructible Beat of Soweto and the Bay Area suburb Palo Alto, where Stewart lived. His father was a member of the band. The band was noted in Metro Silicon Valley for bringing attention to South Bay music.

Metro's Todd Inoue described IBOPA as a collision of "dance, lounge, disco, and ska" with the horror of Red Asphalt. His favorite tracks on their Brutiful (1996) were noted for their lack of irony or shame. Inoue could not "think of enough adjectives to describe" their Squids: Obsession & Devotion. He recommended "Leopard Coat" and "Holy Dance" for Oingo Boingo and Cake fans, and put IBOPA's Ballads for Benpadrone (1997) on his top ten local releases of 1997. In this time, Stewart also played with Korea Girl.

IBOPA was signed to Elektra Records-subsidiary Spongebath Records in April 1999 with plans to release three seven-inch records and a retrospective CD worldwide, but decided to fold three months later when Spongebath dropped the majority of its clients. Their last show was on July 4, 1999 at the Grand Fanali Presents Fourth of July Celebration. The band announced that five of its members—Stewart, Cory McCulloch, Kurt Stumbaugh, Tim Kirby, and Don Dias —would continue into a new acoustic and experimental band called Ten in the Swear Jar.

Ten in the Swear Jar (XITSJ), with Stewart and four IBOPA members, continued IBOPA's "unusual approach" with eccentric and erratic music. Their debut album My Very Private Map was produced on CD and vinyl, and their next album, Inside the Computer Are All of My Feelings, was released on vinyl from Random Order Records. Metro's David Espinoza described the band as "futuristic in instrumentation and erratic in mentality" with the traditional instrumentation backgrounded by baritone saxophones, banjos, accordions, and synthesizers. He added that the band's sound was minimalistic and that the unusual instruments were not used to excess. XITSJ disbanded in September 2000 and Stewart formed Xiu Xiu.

(not watching, please )  czar  02:35, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Pronouns change
Hello everybody,

Jamie's email signature now reads (they/them), it can be assumed they use they/them pronouns now. I am changing their pronouns for all XX-related pages. JSIAmKidding (talk) 01:46, 17 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I have found the page on their upcoming book refers to them as such, so I will use it as a source. BigBlungus (talk) 14:49, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Name change
To avoid confusion with Jamie Stewart (bassist), I propose that this article is changed to Jamie Stewart (American musician) and Jamie Stewart (bassist) is moved to Jamie Stewart (British musician). 80s Sam (talk) 11:49, 7 April 2023 (UTC)