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3 hrs ago | TheCelebrityCafe

Pixies Doing Much To Promote "Doolittle"

Home : Features : Music : Pixies Doing Much To Promote "Doolittle" Pixies Doing Much To Promote "Doolittle" 9-Nov-2009 Written by: Robyn Chelsea-Seifert Band has free album giveaway and concert recordings for their fans.

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8 hrs ago | Stereogum

Pixies @ Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles

When Kim Deal's not singing through a distorted mic with sister Kelley in an elaborate Mayan World Series in Brooklyn , she's back in the fold with the reunited Pixies.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Los Angeles, CA

Sun Nov 08, 2009

OC Weekly

Last Night: The Pixies at the Hollywood Palladium

Don't be fooled! This picture was taken in May at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa, during Frank Black's Grand Duchy show; his project with wife Violet Clark.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Mesa, AZ

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Wired News

Pixies' Anniversary Doolittle Tour Bleeds Surreal Sonics, Viz

After celebrating the 20th anniversary of its pop-punk classic Doolittle with thankful fandom across the pond, the legendary Pixies has returned to America to share its noisy love of surreal sonics and eye-candy visuals.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

Coverville

Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Pixiesa a oeDoolittlea

Submit your covers to coverville to be played on the show! Click here for more info.

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Metromix Tucson

Concert pics: Pixies in Los Angeles

Leave it to late-'80s post-punk legends the Pixies to take what has now become a concert clich - the classic album played in its entirety - and find a way to put their own twisted little spin on it.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Los Angeles, CA, Music, Entertainment

Seattle Times

Pixies changed everything and "Doolitle" is classic, but let's hear it for guitarist Joey Santiago

I pronounce today Joey Santiago Day, in honor of Pixies' guitarist. Everybody pins Pixies' awesomeness on lead songwriter Charles Thompson, aka Frank Black, and it's true that in its genius late '80s run, when Pixies inadvertently created alternative rock, he wrote those fantastic compacted/fragmented psycho-pop songs.

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The Herald

Pixies' Paramount gig celebrates influential '89 album

For many, the Pixies' 1989 album 'Doolittle' is a touchstone, a rambunctious, jagged, poppy album that created the template for Nirvana and paved the way for countless indie rock imitators.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Sodo (Seattle, WA), Waterfront (Seattle, WA), First Hill (Seattle, WA), Seattle, WA, Capitol Hill (Seattle, WA)

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Variety.com

The Pixies

Presented by Live Nation. Opened and reviewed Nov. 4, 2009; also Nov. 5, 6. Band: Charles Thompson IV, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago, David Lovering.

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USA Today

Video: The Pixies dust off 'Doolittle' for a grand tour

It's a good time to be a Pixies fan. Last night the band kicked off the U.S. leg of its Doolittle tour in Los Angeles.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

ChartAttack

Weird A To Join Pixies At Benefit Show

In what's obviously a nerdy person's dream, Weird Al Yankovic will sing the Pixies ' "I Bleed" with the Boston band at a benefit show in Los Angeles next month.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Offbeat

Tue Nov 03, 2009

CW2 Colorado KWGN-TV

Here comes your man, Frank Black

The man they called Black Francis sipped his morning coffee, munched on chopped fruit and chuckled at the strange odyssey of this thing called life.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Boston Metro, Entertainment

Mon Nov 02, 2009

LiveDaily

Interview: Eddie Argos of Art Brut

Aside from singing and writing songs with Art Brut, Argos is a painter, book author, comic-book collector and regular blogger on The Eddie Argos Resource, where he freely speaks his mind: "Avril Lavigne is a bitch." Of his many artistic endeavors, Argos explained: "I was committed to writing bi-weekly reviews about comics , but I always seem to ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Cambridge, MA

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Illinois Entertainer

Hello, My Name Is David

Q&A with the Pixies' David Lovering IE: How do you feel about doing an old album in its entirety? Some bands are weirded out by it.

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Fri Oct 30, 2009

Eye Weekly

Halloween Mix Tape

Ca est Halloween! EYE WEEKLY plans your pre-game party with our seasonal playlist, sure to tantalize, terrify and torment.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009

Music-News.com

Bad Lieutenant get Pixies support slot in US

Bad Lieutenant will be continuing on the back of their sell out Manchester and London shows performing as very special guests on the forthcoming UK leg of the Pet Shop Boys 'Pandemonium' tour in December.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Chicago Metro, US Travel, Travel, Chicago Travel, New Order, Joy Division

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Connect Savannah

What's Next: Pete Yorn

Singer/songwriter Pete Yorn, who's been a favorite on the indie scene since the early part of this millennial decade, will appear at Hilton Head's Shoreline Ballroom Saturday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Pop/Rock, R.E.M., Frank Black, Life, Food, Food Festival

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Filter-Mag

The Pixies' Doolittle Tour...

The Pixies have put together an imaginative and stunning production for their upcoming Doolittle Tour , which officially kicks off next Wednesday, November 4 with three shows at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Los Angeles Metro, Food, Grocery, Theater, Arts

Houstonpress.com

Oregon Trail

"You gonna buy something, bloke?": Art Brut. Details: With Princeton, 8 p.m. Saturday, October 24, at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington, 713-862-2513 or www.superunison.com . Art Brut Although one song on Art Brut 's 2005 debut Bang Bang Rock & Roll is called "Moving to L.A.," front man Eddie Argos admits he never thought his pogo-happy UK ...

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Related Topix: Indie, Art Brut, California, Pop/Rock, The Fall, Music, Entertainment

Sat Oct 24, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

And now for our 'classic album'

Rock nostalgists are having a heady time of it. It is now possible to go to three gigs a week without hearing anything new, thanks to the number of bands playing "classic albums" in their entirety.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Spiritualized, Saint Etienne, Bruce Springsteen, The Beach Boys

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