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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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

"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 ...

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.