Tag: Kim Deal

Pixies in the studio? Perry Farrell suggests they are, tweeting, ‘Pixies r recording’

Pixies in the studio? Perry Farrell suggests they are, tweeting, ‘Pixies r recording’

Last night, Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell may have revealed the Pixies are in the studio, replaying to a tweet from @leCultVult — ‘@perryfarrell back in the day the cool kids at my high school it was all about Jane’s Addiction and the Pixies’ — by writing, ‘Still is Pixies r recording.’

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: ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic sings ‘I Bleed’ with 3/4ths of Pixies at Winston Calling benefit

Video: ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic sings ‘I Bleed’ with 3/4ths of Pixies at Winston Calling benefit

Tweet Last night in Los Angeles,  Black Francis hosted a benefit concert called Winston Calling that featured appearances by most of the Pixies — Kim […]

Searching for: MTV’s ‘120 Minutes: Left of the Dial’ radio show promo CDs

Searching for: MTV’s ‘120 Minutes: Left of the Dial’ radio show promo CDs

Loyal Slicing Up Eyeballs reader Chris Cummins — the guest blogger who wrote last month’s excellent “Remembering MTV’s ‘120 Minutes’” post for USA Today’s Pop […]

Pixies’ ‘Doolittle’ 20th anniversary tour heads to Australia, New Zealand in 2010

Pixies’ ‘Doolittle’ 20th anniversary tour heads to Australia, New Zealand in 2010

The Pixies’ 20th anniversary Doolittle tour — which hits Europe in October and the United States in November — will extend into 2010, as the band […]

Pixies tour dates: ‘Doolittle’ anniversary trek coming to U.S. in November

Pixies tour dates: ‘Doolittle’ anniversary trek coming to U.S. in November

The Pixies’ Doolittle 20th anniversary tour comes to America in November for 14 concerts in nine different cities, including multiple-night stands in New York, Chicago, […]

Breeders touring North America this August between Kim Deal’s Pixies treks

Breeders touring North America this August between Kim Deal’s Pixies treks

Kim Deal will squeeze in a three-week Breeders tour of North America this summer between treks with the recently reactivated Pixies The Breeders — currently […]

Pixies roar back to life with Stockholm, Isle of Wight gigs, plus ‘Minotaur’ box set

Pixies roar back to life with Stockholm, Isle of Wight gigs, plus ‘Minotaur’ box set

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 […]

Video: Pixies, Vaughan Oliver talk about creation of upcoming ‘Minotaur’ box set

Video: Pixies, Vaughan Oliver talk about creation of upcoming ‘Minotaur’ box set

The  Pixies have released a second short film previewing their upcoming — and pricey — box set Minotaur, this time delving into the creative process behind […]

Pixies add more European festival dates; ‘big announcement’ due Monday

Pixies add more European festival dates; ‘big announcement’ due Monday

With the once-again-reactivated Pixies promising “a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT on Monday” on the band’s Facebook page, several more European summer festival dates have begun surfacing. In […]

Kim Deal covers Bob Marley for new Breeders ‘Fate to Fatal’ EP

Kim Deal covers Bob Marley for new Breeders ‘Fate to Fatal’ EP

News surfaced this week that The Breeders — the side project Pixies bassist Kim Deal launched in 1988 — will self-release a four-track EP called […]

Pixies reunion back on again; band playing Isle of Wight, European concerts

Pixies reunion back on again; band playing Isle of Wight, European concerts

Turns out the Pixies still have some life left in them, after all. Word began trickling out today that the slumbering band — which reunited […]