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EVENTS & EDUCATIONThe UK’s Music Managers Forum has announced that it will hold a Managers Summit at Koko in London on 27 Sep. It will include a keynote interview with Attention Management’s Iain Watt and coincide with the release of new book ‘The Essentials Of Music Management’. Tickets and info here.Brian Eno will give a talk on his approach to sound at the Barbican on 23 Oct, as he unveils ‘Andevernomore: 1st Garden’, a sound installation in the Barbican Conservatory featuring music from his upcoming new album ‘Foreverandevernomore’, which is out on 14 Oct.

Pixies have shared their latest single ‘Dregs Of The Wine’ – you can listen to the track below.The song is taken from the veteran four-piece’s upcoming new album ‘Doggerel’, which is set for release on September 30.‘Dregs Of The Wine’ marks Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago’s first writing credit, with frontman Black Francis providing the lyrics which, he says, are about “living in Los Angeles in the ’90s with my then-wife, hanging out with Joey and his ex-wife, lots of trips to Las Vegas, a lot of drinking, little bit drug taking, some genuine good times.”Speaking about the origin of the song, Santiago added: “I guess I was in kind of a zombie state, just playing. After I stopped playing I put it down and went, ‘Well, that was a fucking waste of time, what a piece of shit I am’.“I beat myself up a lot, but my girlfriend, unbeknownst to me, was recording me.

Pixies have announced that they’re to perform a surprise, intimate gig in Manchester tomorrow (July 19).The band will play an intimate show at Manchester’s Band On The Wall venue and tickets for the event are on sale here. All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to Band on the Wall’s The World of Music learning programme.The band will be playing the 500-capacity venue from 8pm, and the show will mark their most intimate performance since they reunited in 2004.Last month, the band confirmed the release date for their eighth album ‘Doggerel’.The Boston rockers will share their new album along with the single ‘There’s A Moon On’ on September 30 via BMG.

There are not many bands that have had such a profound influence on all the music that has been made since them than Pixies. And to refer to them as 'trailblazers' or 'veterans' of the rock genre is to be putting it extremely lightly.

Pixies have confirmed the release date for their eighth album ‘Doggerel’ – see all the details below.The Boston rockers will share their new album along with the single ‘There’s A Moon On’ on September 30 via BMG. You can pre-order the album here and hear the first single below.Vocalist/guitarist Black Francis said of the new album: “We’re trying to do things that are very big and bold and orchestrated. The punky stuff, I really like playing it but you just cannot artificially create that shit.

Pixies have confirmed the release date for their eighth album ‘Doggerel’.The Boston rockers will share their new album along with the single ‘There’s A Moon On’ on September 30 via BMG. You can pre-order the album here.It marks the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Beneath The Eyrie‘, which NME praised in a four-star review as an “otherworldly album” that “filters present-day tribulations through the band’s witchy, psychedelic prism”.Vocalist/guitarist Black Francis said of the new album: “We’re trying to do things that are very big and bold and orchestrated. The punky stuff, I really like playing it but you just cannot artificially create that shit.

Pixies have shared a short documentary with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of their new album. Watch the film below.The six-minute clip features the band recording their first album in three years in Guilford, Vermont.

Pixies have confirmed that they are releasing a new album this year.The group also unveiled the album’s title as ‘Doggerel’. It is set to be released this September.“It’s great to be back at it,” drummer David Lovering told Double J’s Karen Leng, speaking about the band’s recent return with single ‘Human Crime’.Lovering confirmed the new album will “be released in September” adding “It’s all new stuff I’ve gotta learn!”He went on to say that guitarist Joey Santiago descried the new record as “‘Doolittle Senior'”, a sequel to the band’s much-lauded second album from 1989.Lovering added: “It’s like a vague comparison.

Pixies have announced a series of US tour dates, culminating in their previously announced support slots with Nine Inch Nails.The 11-date tour takes place this September, beginning in Port Chester, New York before ending up in Tulsa, Oklahoma.“Over the past year, it’s been wonderful to spend so much time with our families,” said Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago said of the tour in a statement.“I’ve been doing a lot of cycling and playing music, Paz has been working on art projects, music, film,

Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago has said it feels “pretty damn good” to be announced as supporting Pearl Jam at next year’s rescheduled British Summer Time Festival.

Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago, on the other hand, just wants to let his inner Iommi run free once more. “I wanna do some heavy metal riffing whenever I can just to express my freedom!” he says, and his first opportunity might well be the rescheduled BST Hyde Park show they were due to play this July supporting Pearl Jam, now set to occur on July 9, 2021 (a second Pearl Jam gig on July 10 will feature IDLES in support).