Tag: Pixies

Pixies bringing ‘Doolittle’ back to U.S. for 19-date ‘Lost Cities’ tour this fall

The Pixies will bring their seemingly never-ending tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of ‘Doolittle’ — a record that’s now actually 22 years old — back to the U.S. for another round of 19 dates in October and November, this time ‘playing cities we’ve never visited across the U.S. of A.’

Video: Surfer Blood covers Pixies' 'Gigantic'

Video: Surfer Blood covers Pixies’ ‘Gigantic’

Indie buzz band Surfer Blood covers the Pixies classic “Gigantic” in this week’s installment of The AV Club’s Undercover series, in which bands drop in on the site’s Chicago offices and pick a song off a predetermined list to cover live in a very small room.

Video: Human League's 'Don't You Want Me' covered by Rocky Votolato, Matt Pond PA

Video: Human League’s ‘Don’t You Want Me’ covered by Rocky Votolato, Matt Pond PA

The latest installment of the AV Club’s ‘Undercover’ series finds Rocky Votolato and the members of Matt Pond PA doing a stripped-down take on The Human League’s 1981 synthpop classic ‘Don’t You Want Me.’ Check out the video here.

Milestones: Pixies’ ‘Doolittle’ was released 22 years ago today; watch full 1989 concert

The Pixies’ classic album ‘Doolittle’ was released exactly 22 years ago today, and to commemorate that college-rock milestone, check out this full concert filmed just a month later in Athens, Greece, and broadcast on Greek TV.

Milestones: Nirvana plays 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' for 1st time 20 years ago today

Milestones: Nirvana plays ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ for 1st time 20 years ago today

Twenty years ago tonight, Nirvana took the stage at the OK Hotel in Seattle, Wash., and played ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ in concert for the first time — debuting a song that would, in just a few months time, alter the course of popular music and drag much of the ’80s indie underground into the mainstream.

Milestones: Black Francis is 46 today; watch the Pixies’ full 1988 Town & Country gig

To celebrate the birthday today of Black Francis, the songwriter whose lyrics gave name to this site, check out full video of the Pixies’ classic 15-song set opening for the Throwing Muses at London’s Town & Country Club on May 1, 1988