The New York Times : Who are they now? What do they mean? What’s the intent? The Pixies are sounding good, but there’s not a lot of motion in their show — verbal, physical, emotional or otherwise. Kim Deal, the band’s bassist and singer, a warm and goofy presence in a pretty cold and motionless band, gave the only commentary between songs. It wasn’t more than a few practiced...
How come Frank Black looks like he’s 10 years younger than the rest of the Pixies? I guess it’s that whole not eating meat thing. Or maybe he’s one of those soul vampires, and he sucks the life out of tweens and old people. Either one is a tenable position.
Last night I was lucky enough to catch the Pixies first of four residing shows at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom. The shows are a part of the Doolitle Tour, a 20th year anniversary tour of the band’s 1989 breakthrough sophomore album Doolittle. The album is heralded by many music writers as the most influential album [...]
Pixies fever has swept into New York as the reunited rockers played the first of four Doolittle shows last night at the Hammerstein Ballroom. With Black Friday looming, the perfect gift for the Pixies fan in all of us is the band’s mammoth Minotaur box set. In the video above, check out the limited-edition version [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News The Pixies breathed new life into familiar material when they performed all of their 1989 album 'Doolittle,' as well as its related B-sides, last night in New York's Hammerstein Ballroom. The seminal alt-rock act produced video footage especially for the set, which they will repeat during three additional shows at the venue over the next two days. The concert...
If you've never had the opportunity to see the legendary Pixies perform live, well then I kind of feel sorry for you. Granted, it hasn't been exactly easy to do so. After all, the band was broken up for 11 years before reuniting for a 2004-5 tour that took them all around the world and back again. You could very well have missed them then, and it was sort of a limited time thing. The future of the...
Pixies @ Aragon Ballroom - Nov 20, 2009 (jjohnson1120) When a group of revered and influential rockers come back together after a decade of acrimonious separation and/or inactivity, all but the most hard-hearted punks can grant them one lap around...
The Pixies at the Aragon Ballroom in November. Ah, déjà vu. Seems like this happened five years ago (because it did, more or less). A set chock full of old jams, no new material in sight, smiling faces in the crowd and on the stage.There were still a few surprises (a giant video board, pre-show advertisements for USB wristbands at the merch booth), but this is the same Pixies from 2004....
By Jodi Root Five years ago, almost to the day, my life changed. The impossible became not only possible, but actual history and the Pixies reunited. They said it could never happen, but the moment I heard that Frank Black and Kim Deal let bygones be bygones and embarked on a reunion tour in 2004, you [...]
WEEKEND VIDEO / TONIGHT IN CHICAGO! "Gouge Away" Doolittle 1989 iTunes July 13, 1989: Being picked up by a major label apparently hasn't brought any peace to Pixies singer-songwriter Black Francis. The same nightmares that inhabited the band's two brilliant independent LPs, Come on Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa , are in evidence again on Doolittle . That's disturbing for Black Francis but great...
Tonight kicks off a nice run of holiday season benefit rock shows for good causes around town. Basically, you have no excuse for not coming out and digging some music and giving a little something back. Tonight, Friday 11/20 When You Awake & The Fold Present A Tribute To Neil Young w/Delta Spirit, Ferraby Lionheart, Jason [...]
, an ahead-of-its-time band two decades ago, got its due on a wildly received 2004 reunion tour. Since then, the quartet hasn’t bothered to put out any new music and remains more popular than ever. On Thursday in the first of three concerts at the Aragon, singer-guitarist Black Francis (a k a Charles Thompson), bassist Kim Deal, guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer David Lovering looked back once...
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News With smoke machines billowing, the silent film ' Un Chien Andalou ' showing on a massive video screen and ominous music playing, the four members of the Pixies -- Black Francis , Kim Deal , Joey Santiago and David Lovering -- walked onstage at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago on Thursday night, the first of their three-day stint in the city on the 'Doolittle' 20th...
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