Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Saturday night at Chicago's Metro, Julian Plenti , the alter ego of Interpol lead singer Paul Banks , introduced his first solo record, 'Julian Plenti Is...Skyscraper.' Since the record itself clocks in at 37 minutes, Plenti bolstered his 45-minute set with a couple of covers and extra goodies. With a four-piece backing band that included a cellist, Plenti performed...
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...
Later this week I'll be celebrating my 29th birthday, it's not a milestone year or something I'm particularly looking forward to turning (though I'm seeing the Pixies to celebrate it), it's just the natural order of things me aging and whatnot. Back in 1981, mere months after I was born, the early stages of Sonic Youth were being set. Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo were just meeting and the history...
Anna Eliza Bray, engraving from frontispiece of Autobiography . Click to enlarge. Anna Eliza Bray (1790-1883) was a writer of considerable output, which included biographies, historical novels and topographic works. Born Anna Eliza Kempe, she was first married to the historical draughtsman and antiquarian Charles Alfred Stothard, with whom she travelled widely until his death in 1821 from a fall while...
Nothing is free, or so people tell you, and even with music give-aways this appears to be true; at least in this instance. The Pixies have made their EP available free via download; which is excellent news. I’ve not listened to them for a very long time so upon hearing this news I rushed over to [...]
The XX are a brand new young band from South London. It’s definitely rock music, but with lots of male-female vocal turns. I hear a little Velvet Underground (the melodic stuff) in there, and also some Cure. But they’re distinct, delivering the songs in intimate voices and adding electronics. Their new self-titled [...]
The Pixies are nearing the tail end of a tour playing their classic Doolittle LP live and are celebrating by performing "Debaser" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon next Tuesday, November 24. Additionally, the group will play a second song exclusively to stream on the Late Night website . This song will be chosen via Twitter - and you can vote by tweeting directly @jimmyfallon until 6 PM E.S.T....
, 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...
The Pixies, 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...
It's 10 o'clock on a damp Sunday morning in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and the area, formerly home to bums and punks and most recently colonised by young professionals, hipsters and the odd celebrity, has today been taken over by a long line of chattering teenagers.
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...
Tuesday night at the Fremont Abbey the Seattle Rock Orchestra, now well over 50 musicians strong, celebrated the Arcade Fire's beloved debut album Funeral by playing it start to finish to a sold out crowd. Their performance was so fantastic, so full of love, that I now want every show ever to be exactly like that one. EXACTLY like that one. I want dozens of violin, cello, and viola players to be crowded...
MP3: Jay Reatard – It Ain’t Gonna Save Me MP3: The Black Hollies – Gloomy Monday Morning MP3: Bryan Scary and the ShreddingTears – (It’s A) Gambler’s Whirl Pels ikke bjørnen før den er skudt. Or, don’t skin the bear before it’s been shot. That seems to be exactly what Jay Reatard’s old band members tried to do [...]
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