New Music Roundup: Past Lives, very expensive Clifford Brown, jazz-rapt

Jamie Stewart's 7th album Dear God, I Hate Myself will be Xiu Xiu's first studio release sans Caralee McElroy (now of Cold Cave).

Past Lives Tapestry of Webs launches out of Seattle. Arty and antsy.

Clifford Brown gets a 4 disc box set entitled Emarcy Master Takes.

Stonesthrow Records and Madlib is jazz-rapping..err...rap-jazzing with The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble...err...cool loungey stuff with changes like DJ proper!

Also out this week:

• Funky, Detroit contemps Was (Not Was) get a box set treatment. Standard album artwork applies.
• World music front: Malian guitar release Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté on Nonesuch.
• (Even if you don't like it, Joanna Newsom's gonna crush it with Have One On Me)
• The Streets!
• David Byrne and Fatboy Slim!