Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
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 [...]
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
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...
i guess i'm floating (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
If you haven't yet pre-ordered Surfer Blood 's debut Astro Coast you should get on that ASAP. You'll feel better about getting into them before the rest of the indieverse and the Pitchfork accoutrement does. We've been loving the Florida music ( Holiday Shores , Blind Man's Colour , Chromatic Flights , Viernes , Levek ) so naturally Surfer Blood is right up our alley. But honestly, even if Florida...
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
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....
Muzzle of Bees (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
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 [...]
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
, 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...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Underground '80s rock fans are descending on Boston's Theater District for what they'll deem the shows of year. Their fervor may be for bands that peaked in...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Sparklehorse's collaboration with Fennesz makes for a particularly dreamy and ambient installment of the In the Fishtank series. Sparklehorse's usually reclusive core member, Mark Linkous, has been relatively busy in 2009. He played a lead role in the year's magnum collaborative opus Dark Night of the Soul, an album of genius which found him working with producer Danger Mouse to provide the sonic groundwork...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
I've been a Pixies fan for a while now, but I was too young to catch their first go-round, and I somehow stupidly missed their prior reunion tour, so their performance of great sophomore album Doolittle (plus b-sides!) at the sold-out Paramount last night was a real thrill. The band came out to huge applause, Deal chirped that they were going to play some b-sides, and with they launched into "Dancing...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Pixies at once excelled at traditional rock 'n' roll and made fun of it at the Paramount Monday, playing the entirety of its sexual, violent 1989 album "Doolittle." The sold out crowd screamed for every song and seemed to take the concert as a straight-up spectacle of sound and fury.
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
It has lately come to my attention that some very smart people I know — who otherwise have great taste in music and art and all things cultural — don’t know who the Pixies are. If this is the case with any of our readers, I’m going to fix that today. The Pixies [...]
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The reunited Pixes kicked off their nine city US tour -- the one where they play Doolittle cover to cover -- in Los Angeles earlier this week. The band's celebrating a lot, from the 20th anniversary of that classic LP to the release of the physically massive Minotaur boxed set (not so much a coffee table decoration as a coffee table), in various ways this week. You can download a free live EP culled...
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Did we mention the part about it being free?
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Everybody pins Pixies' awesomeness on lead songwriter Charles Thompson, aka Frank Black, and it's true that in its genius late '80s run, when Pixies inadvertently created alternative rock, he wrote those fantastic compacted/fragmented psycho-pop songs. And the famous sex 'n' violence 'n' mythology lyrics.
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Reformed rockers THE PIXIES are trying to save a baby's life by headlining a Los Angeles benefit with WEIRD AL YANKOVIC and RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS star FLEA.The Monkey Gone...
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