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Pixies Tribute Invades iTunesDig For Fire, American Laundromat Records' long-awaited Pixies tribute, finally landed on the 'net this past Tuesday through
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Published: 2007-11-16
Provider: Artist Direct
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Kim Deal Says No New Pixies Album “Because I Don’t Want To” When Rock Daily spoke with Breeders leader and Pixies bassist Kim Deal recently about the Breeders’ April 8th album Mountain Battles, Deal didn’t shy away from talk of a new Pixies record: She says there won’t be one (with her on bass, at least). “Helll no,” she says. “Because I don’t want to.” Her reasoning? She’s a music fan who doesn’t want to hear new albums from bands she enjoyed years ago. “I heard the last Rolling Stones record was good,” she explains. “The thing is, I don’t even care if it’s the best thing they’ve ever done, I just wouldn’t listen to it. And it’s not anything that they’re doing wrong. As a listener, I don’t want to hear about it. I like the Stones at this period of time that I like them, and that’s why I like them. Maybe I’m an elitist, but I don’t feel like I am.” Deal adds that on some level, she thinks Pixies leader Charles Thompson (a.k.a. Frank Black) doesn’t really want to make a new studio album either. “I was kind of waiting for Charles and [guitarist Joey Santiago] to get together and do demos and they never did.” Her reluctance to record with her first band doesn’t mean she didn’t get a kick out of their 2004 reunion tour — or that she wouldn’t do it again. “I enjoy doing the tours,” she says, musing on the number of groups who attempted similar reconciliations in the wake of Pixies’ extremely successful trek. “It worked for us because we didn’t have to fit into the black leather pants and do the high kicks. Because we never had black leather pants and we never did high kicks. We were overweight and ugly then, and we’re overweight and ugly now, so it really wasn’t a stretch. Nobody looked at us and thought, ‘Oh, their youthy dew has gone.’ Other than their hair, that’s about it.” But Deal
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Published: 2007-12-08
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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Pixies Unlikely To Release Post-Reunion Album, Christina Aguilera Is Busy Reading Scripts, The White Stripes Like Puppets Too Pixies’ Frank Black, whose solo greatest-hits album Frank Black 93-03 is due out tomorrow, has debased our hopes for a new Pixies album by saying that record likely isn’t going to happen. According to Black, the personality clashes that caused the band’s 1993 split are marring their current efforts to record new music. Christina Aguilera is set to follow in the musician-turned-thespian footsteps of Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, Ashanti, Beyoncé, and Kelly Clarkson. Hank Medress, who sang on the Tokens’ “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” and later produced New York Dolls’ David Johansen/Buster Poindexter’s “Hot Hot Hot,” died this morning at the age of 68. Check out this video of the White Stripes visiting the Pancake Mountain puppet show during Bonnaroo. Glastonbury notes: The Specials reunite… to back up Lily Allen, Pete Doherty meets Iggy Pop, and the Who close out the fest.
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Published: 2007-06-25
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup
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Frank Black on the prospect of the Pixies recording againMusic & nightlifeCharles Thompson — you may know him as Frank Black — was on a tour bus the other day, passing "cornfields and stuff" as he rolled toward Chicago. Thompson Thompson/Black is the...
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Published: 2006-11-09
Provider: Seattle Times
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Funeral For A Friend, Walk Away, VideoFuneral For A Friend release their next, Gil Norton (Foo Fighters, The Pixies, Maximo Park etc) prod
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Published: 2007-06-20
Provider: Contact Music
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Steven Lindsay, Monkey Gone To Heaven, VideoSteven Lindsay's extraordinarily effortless cover of Pixies' Monkey Gone To Heaven that really gives
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Published: 2007-06-12
Provider: Contact Music
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Maximo Park, Our Velocity, Video StreamOur Earthly Pleasures was produced by Gil Norton (Pixies / Foo Fighters) and recorded at RAK studios
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Published: 2007-03-02
Provider: Contact Music
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Mountain Battles by The BreedersThe fourth album for the rock band formed by Kim Deal of the Pixies was produced by Steve Albini. [Rock]
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Published: 2008-04-08
Provider: Metacritic
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Tony Yayo’s Road Manager’s House Shot Up, Britney Spears Faces Restraining Order, Pixies’ Leader Plans Mini-Album and More Rapper Tony Yayo’s road manager Barja Walter’s house was riddled with bullets and Molotov cocktails in an incident early Tuesday morning. No one in the house, which included Walter, his wife and three children, were hurt in the siege. The incident comes almost nine months after Yayo’s mother’s house was shot up in a similar fashion. Meanwhile, Yayo is due in court tomorrow to face charges stemming from allegations that he slapped the fourteen-year-old son of a rival music executive. In Britney Spears news, reports surfaced today that Brit was hit with a emergency temporary restraining order during last Thursday’s confrontation with police. Spears faces jail time if she comes within one hundred feet of her kids. In other news, the paparazzi member that Spears has been spotted with is reportedly seeking to sell semi-nude photographs of the pop star to tabloids. Finally, Spears’ ex-bodyguard Fat Tony is dishing about his former client to TV show Extra. A day after rapper Prodigy went to jail on gun possession charges, the Mobb Deep member was rushed to a hospital and later released due to a flare-up of his sickle-cell anemia. Because of the relapse, the recovering rapper has been granted a thirty-day stay from going back to prison. Perhaps fed up with seeing his top talent bolt from the label, EMI music chief Tony Wadsworth announced that he too would be leaving the imprint after twenty-six years of service. While there is no new Pixies album on the horizon, frontman Black Francis (a.k.a. Frank Black) will release a new mini-album, dubbed Svn Fngrs, on March 3rd. The seven-track disc was written, recorded and mixed in six days. [Photo: Getty]
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Published: 2008-01-09
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup
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Jay-Z Webcasting NYC Gig, Tribute Albums for Madonna and Pixies, Kelly Clarkson Teams With Reba McEntire for Tour Jay-Z’s recent performance at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom is about to get a global audience, thanks to Msn.com, which will webcast the show in its entirety starting next Tuesday, November 20th. We don’t know if “in its entirety” and “unedited” are the same thing, so while you listen for beeps, look for guest appearances by Diddy and Lil Wayne. Until then, check out an excerpt from Jay-Z’s Rolling Stone cover interview, plus exclusive audio from his interview and behind-the-scenes video from his photo shoot. Madonna and Pixies are the focus of two new tribute albums. Dig for Fire features British Sea Power, Mogwai, OK Go and They Might Be Giants trying their hand at the Boston band’s catalog. Through the Wilderness, which also serves as a benefit for Madonna’s own Raising Malawi Organization, has appearances by Lavender Diamond, Giant Drag and Ariel Pink. Rick Ross will release his sophomore album Trilla on December 18th. The LP includes guests Jay-Z, Young Jeezy, Lil Wayne, Akon, T-Pain and R. Kelly, who features on the first single “Speedin’.” Fall Out Boy is in the “first trimester” stages of their new album, says Patrick Stump from the CosmoGirl! awards. The band also denied various rumors that said the band was going folk (rumors that probably originated right here), that they will collaborate with Cobra Starship’s keytarist and that the group are transitioning into rap-rock. Here’s a fresh rumor: Fall Out Boy went to the CosmoGirl! awards! Kelly Clarkson and Reba McEntire will hit the road togther early next year as they embark on their 2 Worlds 2 Voices tour. Complete dates are after the jump. January 17: Dayton, OH Nutter Center January 18: Louisville, KY Freedom Hall January 1: Morgantown, WV WV University January 24: Norfolk, VA Norfolk Scope Arena January 25: Winston Salem, NC Lawrence Joel Coliseum January 26: Fayetteville, NC Crown Center
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Published: 2007-11-17
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup
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