Tag: Doolittle

Pixies to play "Bossanova" and "Trompe Le Monde" in five European cities in 2024

Pixies to play “Bossanova” and “Trompe Le Monde” in five European cities in 2024

The Pixies are about to begin the second leg of their massive, three-part North American tour, but they’re already looking ahead to 2024.

Pixies prep "Doolittle" live album, 10-inch of "Purple Tape" demos for Record Store Day

Pixies prep “Doolittle” live album, 10-inch of “Purple Tape” demos for Record Store Day

Pixies will release two new vinyl titles on Record Store Day this year, a live album recorded on the band’s 2009 Doolittle tour and a 10-inch of early demos.

Watch: Pixies' Joey Santiago, David Lovering talk 'Doolittle' in 30-minute 4AD promo

Watch: Pixies’ Joey Santiago, David Lovering talk ‘Doolittle’ in 30-minute 4AD promo

In conjunction with the release this month of the 25th anniversary reissue of the Pixies’ classic second album Doolittle, the 4AD label has produced a 30-minute promotional film in which guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer David Lowering reflect back on the making of the record.

Pixies' 'Doolittle 25’ 3CD reissue to include 21 previously unreleased demos, Peel sessions

Pixies’ ‘Doolittle 25’ 3CD reissue to include 21 previously unreleased demos, Peel sessions

The Pixies will mark the 25th anniversary of their classic sophomore album Doolittle with an expanded 3CD, 50-track reissue this December that will feature, as bonus material, the record’s B-sides, two of the band’s Peel sessions in their entireties, and a full disc’s worth of demos.

Pixies pull out unreleased song, 'Monkey Gone to Heaven' for NPR 'Tiny Desk Concert'

Pixies pull out unreleased song, ‘Monkey Gone to Heaven’ for NPR ‘Tiny Desk Concert’

The Pixies’ current U.S. tour took the band through Washington, D.C., recently, which afforded the group a chance to stop by NPR’s offices to perform a stripped-down “Tiny Desk Concert” — footage of which has just been posted by the public-radio giant.

Black Francis howls like a madman on this isolated vocal track to Pixies’ ‘Debaser’

Anyone who’s listened to the Pixies’ “Debaser” knows Black Francis sounds fairly deranged on that classic opener to 1989’s Doolittle. But give the isolated vocal track a listen, and, well, as Fluxblog’s Matthew Perpetua notes, the Pixies’ frontman “just sounds like a maniac screaming on the street.”

Pixies' 'Surfer Rosa' turns 25 today — so let's watch the band's full '89 Glastonbury set

Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa’ turns 25 today — so let’s watch the band’s full ’89 Glastonbury set

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the Pixies’ landmark Surfer Rosa, which, if we’re to count Come On Pilgrim as an EP or “mini-LP,” was the band’s true debut album, featuring the instant classics “Bone Machine,” “Gigantic” and “Where Is My Mind?”