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Posted by AlecEiffel in Featured Articles, Latest News on 09 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

Pixies pick Rochester date in November

The recently reunited alt/rockers Pixies are apparently having so much fun that they’ve added a fourth leg to a world tour. The new dates include an autumn stop in Rochester, according to Billboard. The Pixies are scheduled to play a 7 p.m. show Nov. 2 at the Main Street Armory, 900 East Main St. Tickets,...

Posted by AlecEiffel in Featured Articles, Latest News on 01 20th, 2011 | 7 Comments

Pixies announce Canadian tour dates

Pixies’ Doolittle world tour is now pushing the two-year mark. Since reuniting in Fall 2009 to tour behind the 20th anniversary of their iconic album, the band has played over 50 dates across the U.S. and Europe. Now, comes 16 more, as the band has announced a spring roadtrip through Canada. Slicing...

Posted by AlecEiffel in Featured Articles, Latest News on 10 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Pixies Honor Chilean Miners with 33-Song Salute

Pixies - Maquinaria Festival 2010They may not be getting their own reality show, but the rescued Chilean miners got a pretty cool tribute last night. Last night long-reunited alt-rock legends the Pixies’ first-ever headlining appearance in Chile happened to coincide with the rescue of the Chilean...

Posted by AlecEiffel in Featured Articles, Latest News on 10 1st, 2010 | 2 Comments

Pixies Deliver Doolittle to Rimac Arena

By Michael Caldwell | Published Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010 Pixies Deliver Doolittle to Rimac Arena - 09/30/10Perhaps reluctant to reveal their advanced age and weight, indie-rock icons the Pixies took to a darkened Rimac stage and opened with the obscure “Dance the Manta Ray.” Like an insecure...

Posted by AlecEiffel in Featured Articles, Latest News on 09 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Pixies at Austin Music Hall

“Now it’s time to talk about the money.” – Charles Thompson by Dan Solomon September 22, 2010 Pixies at Austin Music Hall The Pixies are six years into their reunion, and have yet to create more than 2 minutes and 35 seconds worth of new material. Prior to the band’s reformation,...

Posted by AlecEiffel in Featured Articles, Latest News on 09 21st, 2010 | 2 Comments

Pixies At Verizon Wireless Theater

By Chris Gray The Pixies are Costanza. In one episode of Seinfeld, a woman who had recently made George Costanza’s acquaintance remarks to Jerry Seinfeld that there must be more to Jason Alexander’s balding, bespectacled nebbish than meets the eye. “Oh no,” exhales Jerry. “There’s...

Posted by AlecEiffel in Featured Articles, Latest News on 09 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Pixies Worry They’re Overstaying Their Welcome

By Pete Freedman At this point, the most startling thing about the Pixies’ reunion isn’t so much that it happened. The iconic alternative band and its fans have now had seven years to come to grips with that much. What’s most surprising about the band’s reunion, these days at...

Posted by AlecEiffel in Featured Articles, Latest News on 09 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Reunited Pixies bring Doolittle tour to Asheville

By Michael Flynn Reunited Pixies bring Doolittle tour to AshevillePlenty of indie bands from the ’80s produced great tunes, devoted fans and cool memories. But few of those groups can claim the lasting influence of the Pixies, whose music spawned the alt rock era of Nirvana and echoes today in...

Posted by AlecEiffel in Featured Articles, Latest News on 06 6th, 2010 | 10 Comments

Pixies pull out of Israeli concert

Music festival organizers say cancellation related to flotilla raid U.S. alternative rock band Pixies has canceled a concert in Tel Aviv this week and organizers say it’s in protest over Israel’s commando raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in which nine activists died. The band’s Tel...

Posted by AlecEiffel in Featured Articles on 02 6th, 2010 | 1 Comment

The Pixies To Play Australia In March

Legendary 90s rock group The Pixies will play Australia in March 2010. Pixie's Kim Deal at Hammerstein BallroomAccording to a report at Under The Radar – a New Zealand website – the group will play Auckland’s Vector Arena on March 12, with dates in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne...

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The Pixies are an American alternative rock band that formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986. The group disbanded in 1993 under acrimonious circumstances but reunited in 2004. Black Francis, Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, and David Lovering have been the bands continual members. While the Pixies found only modest success in their home country, they were significantly more successful in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe, although never achieving mainstream success with their studio albums.

The bands style of alternative rock music is heavily influenced by punk and surf rock, and while highly melodic, is capable of being tremendously abrasive at the same time. Francis is the Pixies primary songwriter and singer and has a distinctly desperate, yowling delivery. He has typically written cryptic songs about offbeat subjects, such as UFOs and surrealism. References to mental instability, violent Biblical imagery, physical injury, and incest feature in many of the bands songs.

The Pixies are widely considered one of the most influential bands who did not achieve mainstream success in their prime. They are seen as an immediate forebear of the alternative rock boom of the 1990s, though they disbanded before reaping any of the benefits this might have brought them. Avowed fan Kurt Cobains acknowledgement of the debt Nirvana owed to the Pixies, along with similar tributes by other alternative bands, ensured that the Pixies legacy and influence grew substantially in the years following their demise.