Gigantic: The Story of Frank Black and the "Pixies": The Story of Frank Black and the "Pixies"
LAist (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Pixies kicked off a three night stand at the Palladium Thursday night with an exhilarating run-through of their classic “Doolittle”, its assorted B-sides, and a smattering of earlier faves. These days they’re riding a wave of nostalgia, rather than a wave of mutilation, but as reunions go, this is one of the more gratifying ones. The evening starts a little rough. The band almost...
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
It’s raining when I walk out the door this morning. I get into my car and put the faceplate on my radio and put in my copy of The Pixies album Doolittle. The first song is “Debaser”: The simple bass leads me to some kind of window in my mind. And as the guitars hit [...]
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Did we mention the part about it being free?
morphizm (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The greatest band of the ’80s and ’90s is back again, this time to rep its crossover knockout Doolittle with a full-album tour, including B-sides. This monkey just went to heaven for Wired. Pixies’ Anniversary Doolittle Tour Bleeds Surreal Sonics, Viz fter celebrating the 20th anniversary of its pop-punk classic Doolittle with thankful fandom across the [...]
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.
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The seminal band kicks off a U.S. tour commemorating the 20th anniversary of its 1989 college-rock classic 'Doolittle' at the Palladium. The seminal band kicks off a U.S. tour commemorating the 20th anniversary of its 1989 college-rock classic 'Doolittle' at the Palladium.
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
There are drawbacks to performing an entire album live in concert — even for the Pixies, who unfurled 1989’s groundbreaking Doolittle on Wednesday in the first of three sold-out nights at the Hollywood Palladium. “You can’t skip it if you don’t like any of the songs,” bassist-singer-chatterbox Kim Deal noted onstage with a blissful grin. [...]
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Pixies might have just kicked off the American leg of their Doolittle tour last night in Los Angeles, but Black Francis has already made plans to return to L.A. on December 8th and 9th when he headlines Winston Calling: A Rock and Comedy benefit concert for baby Winston Bertran. The first concert of the [...]
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Frank Black and co get things off to a raucous start
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
After listening to all those Breeders albums, a person might think that Black Francis is kind of a pretentious jerk. I, however, refuse to believe that after hearing he's going to take the stage this December with the one and only Weird Al Yankovic for charity. Though Francis probably sits in his basement most weeknights eating Doritos, playing Fester's Quest on 8-bit Nintendo, and jamming out to...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Limewire : …It may very well be a sign of the impending apocalypse, but a proposed collaboration between comic singer “Weird Al” Yankovic and members of Boston alt-darlings Pixies might just be too amazing to fathom.Pixies frontman Black Francis will be hosting the event, and will also perform over the course of the evening, appearing solo, with wife Violet Clark, and of course,...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The Pixies frontman ponders life, success and his band's reunion as the group prepares a 'Doolittle'-themed trio of shows at the Hollywood Palladium. The man they called Black Francis sipped his morning coffee, munched on chopped fruit and chuckled at the strange odyssey of this thing called life. In the past, the singer for the Pixies was famous for sounding crazed, possessed or sinister onstage,...
Books are my only friends (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
It is rare when scifi geekiness and indie rock come together. Usually one must turn to the Pixies or early Frank Black for such things. Fortunately there are a few others. Butterglory, an underrated 90s band, has the Skills of the Star Pilot. It really just uses some scifi imagery, but I will take what I can get. A nice low key tune.
Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
December 8th at the Echoplex. Only $20. Can you beat that friggin’ lineup? I’d say its impossible, but on December 9th at the adjacent Echo, you’ll have Black Francis with Bob Oedenkirk, Tim & Eric, Dave Lovering, Brian Posehn, and more. Again, for only $20… or $35 for both nights. Now that I have your attention, let [...]
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Filed under: Video , Exclusive Ever since their sold-out comeback tour in 2004, Pixies "reunions" have come around periodically, with their latest regrouping in honor of the 20th anniversary of their landmark 1989 album, 'Doolittle.' In the wake of a predictably successful run abroad, the US leg of the tour will kick off in Los Angeles on Nov. 4. The band will spend the following month taking...
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