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  • 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

    • 10 December 2014
    • Video
    • 1 comment

    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.

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  • 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

    • 18 October 2014
    • Anniversary, Reissues, Tracklist
    • 4 comments

    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.

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  • 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’

    • 4 February 2014
    • Video
    • 11 comments

    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.

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

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

    • 21 August 2013
    • Digital Music
    • 1 comment

    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.”

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  • 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

    • 21 March 2013
    • Anniversary, Milestones, Video
    • 3 comments

    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?”

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  • Q&A: Joey Santiago on Pixies’ ‘Doolittle’ tour, possible ‘Surfer Rosa’ shows, new album talk

    Q&A: Joey Santiago on Pixies’ ‘Doolittle’ tour, possible ‘Surfer Rosa’ shows, new album talk

    • 17 October 2011
    • Q&A
    • 9 comments

    Joey Santiago tells Slicing Up Eyeballs that the Pixies have discussed making a new record, but that notion remains in the ‘chit-chat phase.’ The guitarist, however, is all for it: ‘I’d like to give it a shot, just to see what we’d come out with. Certainly, we don’t have to put it out if it sucks.’

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

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

    • 4 July 2011
    • Anniversary, Tour Dates
    • 3 comments

    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.’

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

    • 18 April 2011
    • Milestones, Video
    • 4 comments

    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.

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

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

    • 6 April 2011
    • Milestones, Video
    • 4 comments

    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

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  • Pixies to bring ‘Doolittle’ tour to Canada, three more U.S. cities in April, May

    Pixies to bring ‘Doolittle’ tour to Canada, three more U.S. cities in April, May

    • 20 January 2011
    • Anniversary, Tour Dates
    • 16 comments

    The Pixies are keeping the ‘Doolittle’ train rolling, announcing this morning a new round of 16 North American dates this April and May that mostly will hit Canadian cities — but with stops in Detroit, Milwaukee and St. Paul, Minn. thrown in as well.

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  • Stephen Street discusses work with The Smiths, Morrissey on ‘Sound Opinions’

    Stephen Street discusses work with The Smiths, Morrissey on ‘Sound Opinions’

    • 23 July 2010
    • Podcast, Radio
    • 0 comments

    Record producer and engineer Stephen Street — who worked on three albums by The Smiths before producing and co-writing Morrissey’s solo debut ‘Viva Hate’ — will be the guest on this week’s episode of the ‘Sound Opinions’ radio program, billed as ‘the world’s only rock ‘n’ roll talk show.’

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