Tuesday - February 20, 2007 - 06:50pm

Reairing Of The Pixies On Pbs's Austin City Limits

Austin City Limits — PBS’s long-running music showcase — will feature an encore episode of the Pixies on July 7, 2007. If you remember about this in July be sure to remember to check it out. Add it to your calendars now.

Source: PBS

Tuesday - January 09, 2007 - 04:06pm

Beat It Wally

Musicians Banding Together to Fight Cancer a semi-acoustic benefit concert for Wally 'Llama' Ingram with various artists including GARBAGE, THE MARTINIS with JOEY SANTIGO & DAVID LOVERING of THE PIXIES, BONNIE RAITT, VICTORIA WILLIAMS & TOM FRUEND, Keb'Mo' and FREEDY JOHNSTON, will be held on January 31 at the Alex Theatre in Glendale,CA.

Tickets are only $85 and awesome seats are still available. The Venue only houlds a few hundred people. And its Garbage's first performance together in almost 2 years.

TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE ONLY AT THE ALEX THEATRE WEBSITE.

Source: Http://www.garbage.com

Monday - December 18, 2006 - 08:44pm

New Pixies Tribute Album

Our friends over at American Laundromat Records have been working on a brand new album "Dig For Fire - A Tribute to the Pixies" set to be released in the fall 2007.

Artists include:

Beth Waters
Charles Douglas
Dinosaur Jr/J Mascis
Dylan In The Movies
Elk City
John Strohm
Joy Zipper
Julie Peel
Mogwai
OK Go
The Commons
The Morning Theft
The Rosebuds
They Might Be Giants

Source: American Laundromat Records

Tuesday - October 24, 2006 - 08:24pm

Pixies Plan New Record

We all pretty much saw it coming, but today at last arrives word from Frank Black himself. According to NME.com, the reunited Pixies hope to one-up 2004's lackluster "Bam Thwok" single and begin work on a brand new album in the coming year.

"Since we got back together we've played almost everywhere we can," explained Black to the NME website. "I know we like playing and everyone likes touring together, so to keep doing that and not record anything is kind of like being a county fair band. We don't want to do that, so the only thing we can do is become a vital band again.

"So it's just a matter of doing it, I guess."

Black also revealed that a new Pixies disc is no deal without bassist Kim Deal: "We're rehearsing in January, if we can persuade Kim to come out of her house. We offered to go to her but we figured if we book the rehearsals she'll show up."

So there you have it. If all goes according to plan, Pixies will record their first album in over 15 years and one of rock/indie/whatever's most beloved bands will have a stake in next year's new musical landscape. We's stoked.

In other Pixies news, the previously reported reunion DVD loudQUIETloud hits retailers November 7. Be wary, however, as Black expressed a few qualms about the documentary's portrayal of drummer David Lovering to the New Musical Express site.

"David, who was rock solid for a couple of years, his dad died. He was OK, but as it got towards the end of the tour he started drinking heavily. He messed up a couple of songs and it was all caught on film," Black told NME.com.

"But they re-edited this to look like it happened in the middle of our tour and it looked like this whole tour careered into this drunken stupor with David. It really wasn't like that at all-- he was really solid for, like, 90% of it."

Source: Pitchfork