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official live cds
From Billboard:
The Pixies will make every show from their upcoming 15-date North American tour available for sale immediately after the performance, Billboard.com can reveal. The group will be touring with a recording truck from DiscLive that will press a limited run of 1,000 CDs per show (2,000 for the May 1 performance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif.). The double-CD sets will sell for $25 at the venue or $22 if they're pre-ordered through DiscLive's Web site.

At each venue, fans will be able to purchase a voucher prior to the concert. Approximately 10-15 minutes following its conclusion, they will trade the voucher for the show on CD, including artwork specific to that performance. Any CDs that are not sold at the show will be available from the Disc Live site; CDs can also be mailed to the buyer. There is a two CD limit per customer.

For a list of all live dates so far, check out pixiesmusic.com

www.billboard.com

mtv interview with joey
Joey Santiago is interviewed on MTV.com about the Pixies reunion.

new dvd and best of
4AD are to release a new best of to replace "Death to the Pixies" which is
out of print in the USA. Titled "Wave Of Mutilation – Best Of PIXIES", it also features B-sides "Into the White" and "Winterlong".
Tracklist:
1. Bone Machine
2. Nimrod's Son
3. The Holiday Song
4. Caribou
5. Broken Face
6. Gigantic (single version)
7. Vamos (Surfer Rosa version)
8. Hey
9. Monkey Gone To Heaven
10. Debaser (Doolittle version)
11. Gouge Away
12. Wave Of Mutilation
13. Here Comes Your Man
14. Tame
15. Where Is My Mind?
16. Into The White
17. Velouria
18. Allison
19. Dig For Fire
20. U-Mass
21. Alec Eiffel
22. Planet Of Sound
23. Winterlong  

The DVD- "Pixies" will have over two and a half hours of footage including:
LIVE – this is the complete Pixies set filmed in 1988 when the band supported Throwing Muses at London's Town And Country Club. It has a choice of a stereo or 5.1 soundtrack.
VIDEOS – All eight of the rarely seen promotional videos - Monkey Gone to Heaven, Here Comes Your Man, Velouria, Dig for Fire/Allison, Head On, Alec Eiffel, Debaser
ON THE ROAD – an intimate assembly of footage filmed behind-the-scenes, mostly on Pixies 1989 European tour.
GOUGE – A documentary tracing the Pixies' story featuring interviews with Bono, David Bowie, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead), Graham Coxon and Alex James (Blur), Fran Healy (Travis), P J Harvey, Tim Wheeler (Ash) and Damon Gough aka Badly Drawn Boy.
(Taken from 4AD.com)

TOWN & COUNTRY CLUB 1988
41 minute live concert - REMIX IN 5.1 / stereo
1. The Holiday Song
2. Nimrod’s Son
3. Bone Machine
4. Levitate Me
5. Ed Is Dead
6. Where Is My Mind
7. Caribou
8. Something Against You
9. Hey
10. Gigantic
11. I've Been Tired
12. Vamos
13. In Heaven
14. Tony's Theme
15. Wild Honey Pie

RELEASE DATE: 3rd MAY

reunion shows sell out
Taken from Billboard.com:
"Confirming that interest in the Pixies' music has not waned since the band's 1993 demise, 11 of the 12 shows scheduled for the group's impending reunion tour sold out within minutes over the weekend. At the 1,600-seat Prairieland venue in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, capacity has been doubled to accommodate additional fans.

"The demand has been so great," Prairieland events manager Carl Schlosser enthuses to Billboard.com. "We are the largest venue, so we'll be that overflow for fans who may have been shut out in other cities." Tickets for the 12th show on April 29 in Davis, Calif., go on sale March 1.

The Pixies have logged several weeks of rehearsal in Los Angeles in preparation for the North American dates, which culminate May 1 at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. "We were all a little nervous when we first got together, but within maybe five minutes, everything felt completely comfortable, and it was like the last 11 years had never happened," vocalist/guitarist Frank Black says in a statement.

Adds bassist Kim Deal, "I experienced what I call 'muscle memory' -- we'd be playing a song and I didn't even have to think about what note came next -- my fingers remembered what to play."

Following Coachella, the group will take a short break before hitting Europe for festivals and headlining appearances. So far, confirmed dates begin with a June 2-5 stand at London's Carling Brixton Academy and also include a June 11 appearance at the Super Bock Super Rock festival in Lisbon, two mid-June shows with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in Dublin and Paris and a July 10 set at the T in the Park festival in Kinross, U.K."

www.billboard.com

pixies at coachella
Apparantly, the Pixies have been confirmed for the Californian festival Coachella alongside Radiohead and Kraftwerk. They will be performing on May 1. More shows in the US and Europe are strongly rumoured.

irish times article
Click here to read an article on the rumoured Pixies reunion from January 8th's Ticket section of the Irish Times.

free pixies tribute album
Over on frankblack.net, you can now download "Hey - A Pixies Tribute" from their FTP site. Among the 22 tracks is a crazy German(ish) version of Mr. Grieves complete with horns and "w"s pronounced as "v"s as well as a club mix of Silver. Crazy. But nice...

frank black: the musical
New York producer Josh Frank is making a Broadway musical about the life of Frank Black. "Teenager of the Year" will follow the enitre career of the Pixies and Frank Black's solo career. Frank has discussed the idea with Frank as well as Joey Santiago and David Lovering. Frank Black was amused at the idea at first but then realised that Josh Frank was serious.

They're saying it's "a beat poem to the 80's and how alternative rock crashed the mainstream party". Josh Frank has says it'll probably be "more like a November to January premiere".

www.teenageroftheyear.com

re-issues
Official site says:
"Great news... The Pixies 4 and a half original albums are to be given a sonic carwash and remastered for US release in May 2003 direct from the studio masters - 'Come on Pilgrim', 'Surfer Rosa', 'Doolittle', 'Bossanova' and 'Trompe Le Monde'. Also being re-released will be 'Pixies at the BBC' and the 'Complete 'B' Sides'." And get this: "Meanwhile the uk weekly NME has voted 'Doolittle' the second best album EVER with 'Surfer Rosa' also in the top 100 at number 31."
Elsewhere, I read this: "The discs won't be receiving any embellishments"
And this: "The Pixies reissues will have no remastering, no bonus tracks and the currently available versions are available at deep discount as is. Oh, and they're splitting up Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa into two separate albums again." *

placebo cover the pixies
The Pixies' "Where Is My Mind?" has been covered by Placebo. They played it live and recently recorded it for the BBC3 show Recovered. Placebo's frontman Brian Molko talked to the show's host Dermot O' Leary and said "Hmm... seminal band, I guess..." when asked why he chose to cover the song.

gouge away cover
If for some reason you want to download Papa Roach's somewhat shit cover of Gouge Away, you can... just use www.music369.com as the password for opening the zip file.
go!

no. 34, baby
Doolittle was voted number 34 in a list of the 100 best albums ever in Q Magazine. Number one was Nevermind by Nirvana. Number one hundred was the Soft Bulletin by the Flaming Lips.
Click here for what they said.

purple tape
The Purple Tape is now available on CD on Cooking Vinyl. The Purple Tape includes early versions of nine Pixies songs including HCYM, Broken Face, I'm Amazed and Subbacultcha recorded at Fort Apache.

frank black and his 2 new albums
Frank Black released 2 albums last summer on Cooking Vinyl. Devil's Workshop and Black Letter Days were released in August. 

rocksound purple tape review
A review of the Purple Tape from Rocksound 32.

pixies covers
David Bowie has covered the song Cactus for his album Heathen. The album also has a cover of  Neil Young song "I've Been Wating For You"  that was covered by the Pixies as a "B" Side and appears on Complete B- Sides. Gouge Away was covered by the American rapping rocksters Papa Roach on their album lovehatetragedy as a bonus track.

breeders on buffy
The Breeders were on Buffy the Vampire Slayer with their song "Little Fury". The band covered the Buffy Theme for some of their live shows.