Photographer Simon Larbalestier’s iconic Pixies album artwork — created during the college-rock kingpins’ original 1986-1993 run as well as the band’s ongoing reunion — will be the subject of a six-week retrospective at a U.K. art gallery beginning next month.

[tweetmeme]Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, reissues and/or box sets.
ARTIST: Pixies
RELEASE: Minotaur
BACKSTORY: Featuring newly created artwork, this, er, gigantic — and quite pricey — box set features all five of the band’s albums on CD, DVD and Blu-ray, plus a previously unreleased 1991 concert on both Blu-ray and DVD. The limited-edition version [...]

[tweetmeme]As promised, the Pixies appeared on “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” last night to perform the closest thing the band ever had to a pop hit, Doolittle’s “Here Comes Your Man.” It’s a fairly subdued performance — it might have been more fun to rile up the audience with a ferocious tear through “Tame” [...]

The Pixies’ 20th anniversary Doolittle tour — which hits Europe in October and the United States in November — will extend into 2010, as the band this week announced six March dates in Australia and New Zealand.
Of course, by the time Black Francis and Co. open those concerts with the band’s first-ever New Zealand gig [...]

Dormant since 2007, the Pixies tore out of hibernation this weekend with a private gig and festival set in Stockholm and a high-profile slot at the Isle of Wight Festival, as preorders begin today for the band’s forthcoming box set, Minotaur.
Black Francis and Co. hit Stockholm for the band’s first gigs since wrapping its 2004-2007 [...]

The  Pixies have released a second short film previewing their upcoming — and pricey — box set Minotaur, this time delving into the creative process behind the set’s all-new Vaughan Oliver artwork.
The new collection, which can be pre-ordered in $150 and $450 editions starting June 15 (although it won’t ship until mid-September), will feature repackaged — [...]

Tipped first by the Pixies’ tease of a big announcement on their Facebook page, then the appearance online last night of this image (left), speculation ran rampant — for a few frenzied hours, at least — that the legendary college rockers were about to drop their first new album since 1991’s Trompe Le Monde.
Turns out [...]