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Pixies have announced that bassist Paz Lenchantin has left that band.In a post shared to social media today (March 4), the band announced the musician’s departure and revealed her replacement for their upcoming tour, writing: “Paz Lenchantin, who joined Pixies in 2014, has exited the band to concentrate on her own projects.“We’re grateful for Paz’s many contributions, and wish her all the very best going forward.”In her place, the band announced that they were “delighted” to welcome Emma Richardson, formerly of Band of Skulls.“Emma will make her worldwide touring debut with Pixies on the first night of the Bossanova x Trompe le Monde” European tour, beginning this Friday in Dublin.”An announcement from Pixies.La la love you… pic.twitter.com/TUqbRcoNaA— PIXIES (@PIXIES) March 4, 2024“See you on the road!” the post concluded. “La la love you, Pixies.”Lenchantin was previous a member of Zwan and A Perfect Circle.

Pixies and Modest Mouse have announced their joint 2024 US tour with Cat Power which is set to kick off later this year.The co-headlining tour will see Power provide opening support and is set to kick off on Friday, May 31 at the Firefly Distillery in Charleston, South Carolina. From there, the are set to make stops in major cities such as Nashville, Atlanta, Pittsburg, Toronto, Philadelphia, Queens, Mansfield, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Austin, Irving and more.The tour will wrap up on Sunday, June 30 at Fiddler’s Green in Denver, Colorado.

The Dandy Warhols have today (January 16) shared a new single ‘Dancing With Myself’ that they’ve worked on with Pixies‘ Frank Black – check it out below.Speaking abut the song, which is taken from their new album, ‘Rockmaker’, the band’s Courtney Taylor-Taylor said “it started with a riff that either sounded like Misfits or Danzig and then got slowed down.”Over time, Taylor-Taylor added, the play on words “became the [song’s] working title, and then we couldn’t change it. I mean, come on… ‘Danzig with Myself’?!”The new album – the band’s twelfth – will be released via Sunset Blvd. Records on March 15 and you can pre-order it here.The new single also features Pixies’ Frank Black.

Fatboy Slim and Snow Patrol will be co-headlining the Friday night of the festival, with Jamie T and Biffy Clyro topping the bill on the Saturday and Sunday, respectively.Fatboy Slim’s appearance at the festival had previously been teased with a sign that had appeared on the Southsea seafront, which read ‘Praise You’ in reference to his hit of the same name.They will be joined by acts including Wet Leg, Becky Hill, Pixies, Courteeners, IDLES, Jess Glynne, Arlo Parks, Louis Tomlinson and Natasha Bedingfield.Also set to perform are Soft Play, the Lightning Seeds, Maximo Park, The Snuts, Yard Act, The Lottery Winners, The Pigeon Detectives, Holly Humberstone, The Amazons, The Lathums, Red Rum Club, Brooke Combe, Personal Trainer, Sea Power, Peace, The Murder Capital, Do Nothing and more.Early bird weekend camping tickets are now on sale from £180, while day tickets are priced at £65 each – you can buy yours here.‘‘This is the first year we’ve released all our headliners at once and we’re thrilled to be able to announce the acts after months of planning,” Victorious’ lead booker Andy Marsh said in a press release. “Victorious 2024 is going to be bigger than ever and it’s not just the headliners people need to look out for, we have booked hundreds of acts across the weekend spanning multiple genres.

LCD Soundsystem have been announced to headline London’s All Points East 2024. Check out the full line-up and ticket details below.The electro-punk icons, who headlined the inaugural edition of the festival back in 2018, will return to top the bill at Victoria Park Friday August 23 for the Bank Holiday Weekend.They’ll be joined on the day by the enigmatic Jai Paul – who returned to limelight with live shows this year – along with Pixies, Floating Points, Jockstrap, Nation of Language, a live show from Sofia Kourtesis and Eyedress.

Pixies have announced a new UK and European tour, in which they will celebrate their ‘Bossanova’ and ‘Trompe Le Monde’ albums.The tour is set to kick off in Spring 2024, and will see the alt-rock icons perform their third studio album ‘Bossanova’ (1990) and follow-up ‘Trompe Le Monde’ album (1991) in full.‘Bossanova’ was introduced by the singles “Velouria” and “Dig for Fire“, and marked the first LP following the success of their hit second album ‘Doolittle’. It also was the first to feature no songs written by bassist Kim Deal, as she formed her other band The Breeders around the time it was written.‘Trompe Le Monde’ arrived the following year, and featured four singles: ‘Planet Of Sound’, ‘Alec Eiffel’, ‘Letter To Memphis’ and ‘Head On’.

Pixies have issued an apology to fans after it was revealed that their song ‘Where Is My Mind’ was turning off their phone alarms.The iconic 1998 track was discovered to be wreaking havoc on some Google devices earlier this week, when one fan took to social media to explain how the track was inadvertently causing him to miss his morning alarms.As detailed by one Reddit user on Monday (May 1), the start of the song was interfering with an update to Google’s recent Assistant update, which allowed users to turn off their alarms by saying “stop”.However, the Assistant has been interpreting the start of ‘Where Is My Mind’ — the ‘Surfer Rosa’ track that opens with Black Francis abruptly stating “stop” — as a command from the user, and has been switching off users’ alarms in response.“For the past few months, I could not figure out why on random days, with seemingly no reason, sometimes my alarm would either not go off, or turn itself off very quickly,” wrote the Redditor. “Well this morning, I woke up about 5 minutes before my alarm went off, and I have cracked the code.”“The alarm is set to play a Spotify playlist, and one of the songs on that playlist is ‘Where is My Mind’ by the Pixies.

Pixies, Modest Mouse and Cat Power have announced a joint tour of North America – see all the dates below and buy tickets here.The three bands will hit the road in August and September, and they come in addition to upcoming May dates for Pixies in support of their new album ‘Doggerel’.The tour begins in Asbury Park, New Jersey on August 20, running for the following month before finishing up in San Diego, California on September 16.See the full list of tour dates below. Tickets are on sale on Friday, March 31 at 10am local time.

Pixies have announced new UK and European tour for 2023.The Boston rockers are already heading to the US and Australasia this year to play their delayed ‘Come On Pilgrim… It’s Surfer Rosa’ tour, and will look to promote new album ‘Doggerel‘ during their 2023 dates.The ‘Come On Pilgrim… It’s Surfer Rosa’ tour will see Pixies celebrate both their 1987 EP ‘Come On Pilgrim’ and their ’88 album ‘Surfer Rosa’, with all 21 tracks from the records (as well as an encore of assorted hits from Pixies’ other releases) played at the majority of shows.In the UK in 2023, they’ll play Birmingham Forum, Cardiff International Arena and two dates at London’s Roundhouse between March 17 and 21.Tickets for the UK and European leg general sale at 9am BST on this Friday (September 30) here.

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 told NME about going for curry with David Bowie and having the legend cover one of their songs.This week, the alt-rock legends took NME‘s Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! challenge, where veteran artists are quizzed about their history in the music industry.During the interview, frontman Black Francis and drummer David Lovering were asked about Bowie covering Pixies’ ‘Cactus’ for his 2002 album ‘Heathen’.“It’s cool when people like your music and do versions of it but I don’t like to make a big deal out of it,” Francis said. “Bowie was just a music geek – like me.

Pixies have shared the latest preview of their forthcoming eighth album, ‘Doggerel’ – an equally smoky and melodic cut of alt-rock titled ‘Vault Of Heaven’ – announcing with it a short run of US tour dates.The song itself features an allusion to a bad drug trip and copious references to 7-Eleven, as Black Francis (aka Frank Black) sings in the first verse: “There in the vault of heaven / While trying to titrate / I ended up in… / Another case. I went to 7-Eleven / To try and get me straight / I ended up there… / In outer space.”‘Vault Of Heaven’ arrives alongside a suitably wacky music video, directed by Charles Derenne.

Pixies frontman Black Francis has admitted that a collection of recent world events has led to “rippling tension everywhere”.Speaking to NME in a new interview, the singer – AKA Frank Black – said he worried about the world being left behind for his children and their generation.“Some of the events of the last few years, with the Presidential election in the United States and Donald Trump and all that other nonsense, and then the coronavirus pandemic and now worldwide recession, amid these extreme weather patterns, add together all this stuff and it starts to feel very dystopian,” he said.“There’s an economic strain on people and you see it when you go to Aldi and realise, ‘Shit, there are four security guards in this fucking discount grocery store to make I don’t run off with too many cans of tuna fish for free!’”Francis cited a number of factors – including “the United States banning abortion but not guns, despite the mass shootings” and “the hottest day of the year” – for creating the feeling that “we’re going to hell in a handbasket, and it’s the most grim and dystopian it’s ever been in my lifetime.”“I’m embarrassed in front of my children, just sheepishly apologising: ‘Sorry the world’s as corrupt as it is!’” he continued, while adding that “even if you have a fatalist view of life, sometimes you just have to sit back and find a way to enjoy that damn coffee”.Pixies will share their new album along with the single ‘There’s A Moon On’ on September 30 via BMG.

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.

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 their return to Australia and New Zealand, taking to stages this December for their long-paused ‘Come On Pilgrim… It’s Surfer Rosa’ tour – get tickets here.It’ll be the band’s second time taking the run Down Under, after an attempt in 2020 was cut short by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. They played four of the dates on that tour – two headliners in Melbourne, one in Auckland and a set at that year’s Golden Plains festival in regional Victoria – but were forced to cancel shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Perth.All three cities are featured on the new itinerary, which is set to kick off in Brisbane on December 2.

Pixies have returned with their first new music since 2020 – listen to ‘Human Crime’ below.The song follows the band’s 2020 single ‘Hear Me Out‘ and their latest studio album, 2019’s ‘Beneath The Eyrie‘.In the new single vocalist Black Francis (real name Charles Thompson IV) reflects on an old relationship: “Went by your place/ There was nobody there/ At the cocktail lounge/ Someone else was in your chair.”It’s comes with a music video that’s directed by Pixies bassist Paz Lenchantin, which was filmed at the San Pedro abandoned bunkers and Santa Monica’s Gold Diggers Bar in LA.“The storyline is loosely based on an ‘inside joke’ between Charles and I about going on tour,” Lenchantin explained in a statement. “How we go through a door from our reality state into the altered state of becoming and being a Pixie.”Meanwhile, Pixies were due to release their ‘Live In Brixton’ box set in January, but the release was delayed until the end of last month.The eight-disc collection documents the group’s four sold-out reunion shows that took place at London’s O2 Academy Brixton in June 2004.

Pixies have hinted that new music could be on the way next week.On Twitter yesterday (February 25), the band shared a short video clip of new music with the caption “keep your eyes peeled next week for something new.”You can hear the new music and watch the clip here:Oh… before we go… keep your eyes peeled next week for something new

Miley Cyrus went all out for her set at this year’s Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest, performing 20 songs including mashups, covers, and a live debut of a ‘Plastic Hearts’ deep cut.The former Disney star opened up the show with her 2013 hit ‘We Can’t Stop’, with a brief interpolation of the Pixies’ 1988 classic ‘Where Is My Mind?’. Later in the set, she blends ‘Wrecking Ball’ with elements of Sinead O’Connor’s Prince-written ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’.A sextet of covers punctuated the setlist, first with ‘Heart Of Glass’ by Blondie, then ‘23’ by Mike WiLL Made-It and ‘Maybe’ by Janis Joplin, with the live debut of her own ‘Plastic Hearts’ track ‘Never Be Me’ sandwiched in-between.

Pixies‘ new box set, ‘Live In Brixton’ has been pushed back.The eight-disc collection, which will come in both vinyl and CD formats, documents all four of the legendary band’s sold-out reunion shows, which took place at London’s O2 Academy Brixton in June 2004.It was originally slated for release on January 28 next year, but it has now been been delayed until February 25.‘Live In Brixton’ will mark the first time the recordings from the gigs have been made available officially.

Kelly Clarkson has unveiled a cover of Pixies’ 1988 anthem ‘Where Is My Mind?’.In a clip released yesterday (November 29), Clarkson performed with a backing band on her daytime talk show The Kelly Clarkson Show.With every episode, Clarkson picks a beloved song to cover before she begins the show’s main programme.Clarkson attempts to work her own pop vocal prowess into the Pixies alt-rock classic, over an arrangement that keeps close to the original song’s grit.

Pixies have announced a headline performance at Manchester’s Sounds Of The City 2022 – find all the details below.The Boston band will take to the stage at the outdoor Castlefield Bowl venue on Tuesday July 5, 2022. Tickets go on general sale here at 9:30am GMT this Friday (November 19).The Slow Readers Club and Klangstof are set to appear as special guests, with the former saying that they’re “delighted” to feature on the bill.

Pixies have announced details of a new box set, ‘Live In Brixton’, which will be released next year.The eight-disc box set, which will come in both vinyl and CD formats, will document all four of the legendary band’s four sold-out reunion shows which took place at London’s O2 Academy Brixton in June 2004.‘Live In Brixton’ will mark the first time the recordings from the gigs have been made available officially.

Pixies have been announced as the first headliner for End Of The Road Festival 2022.The band were set to top the bill at the festival’s 2020 edition before it was cancelled due to COVID-19.After originally planning to carry over their headline set to 2021, travel restrictions then meant they had to pull out of the festival, which was eventually headlined by Hot Chip, Sleaford Mods, Stereolab and King Krule at the start of this month.Following the 2021 festival, End Of The Road have now revealed

Pixies have cancelled their upcoming US tour, citing a “surge” in COVID-19 cases as the reason for the dates being scrapped.The band were due to hit the road in September for an 11-show run of gigs including two stops with Nine Inch Nails.Earlier today (August 23) the band tweeted that the tour will no longer go ahead.

Touché Amoré, PUP, Vein.FM and more have teamed up for a cover of the Pixies‘ 1988 hit ‘Where Is My Mind?’The cover was assembled by the heavy metal-themed comedy YouTube channel Two Minutes To Late Night, who have curated dozens of virtual supergroups to cover well-known songs in heavier styles.

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,

Nine Inch Nails have announced two September gigs, which they have said will be their only headline shows of the year.The two concerts take place in September at Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica in Cleveland, Ohio on September 21 and 23, with support coming from alternative rock mainstays Pixies.“NIN return to Cleveland for the first time since the band’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Pixies have given their approval of Nandi Bushell‘s take on their classic song ‘Where Is My Mind?’ – you can watch her cover version below.Bushell shared her cover of the band’s 1988 song, which featured on their debut studio album ‘Surfer Rosa’, on Monday (April 5).“I was listening to ‘Bellyache’ by Billie Eilish and the chorus reminded me of the Pixies song ‘Where Is My Mind?’,” Nandi Bushell wrote in the accompanying description.

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.

It used to be that queer kids had to imagine themselves into love songs. The ones with no pronouns were the easiest: No chance of daydreaming about the cute girl in English class only to hit a “he” like a speed bump.

My Chemical Romance has postponed upcoming tour dates in Japan due to the global coronavirus pandemic.