Taylor Swift released her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, last week — and before it was even out for a full day, listeners were already pointing out similarities between her new songs and existing tracks by other artists. The comparisons were harmless, at first, but some of them …
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The Pixies performed “Motorroller,” a single from their 2024 album The Night The Zombies Came, on Wednesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. The venerated band appeared on a hazy set illuminated in greens and blues as singer Charles Thompson a.k.a. Black Francis and Emma Richardson — who joined the band …
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Earlier this year, former Band of Skulls bassist Emma Richardson was painting in her London studio when the phone rang. It was producer Tom Dalgety with a rather urgent matter to discuss. He was working on a new record with the Pixes, and they had an all-too-familiar problem to solve: …
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The total irony of coupling a new song titled “You’re So Impatient” with a gloomy rendition of “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)” — and releasing them as a double A-sided single, giving each sentiment equal weight — might be the most Pixiesest act Pixies have committed in …
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If all Steve Albini ever did with music was complain about it, he still would have reigned as one of its most brilliant provocateurs. But Albini came to make noise — as a punk guitarist, as a producer, as a writer —with rock’s most notoriously savage sense of humor. “I …
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Steve Albini, the noise-rock pioneer with Big Black and Shellac who also helped engineer some of the greatest alternative rock albums of all time — Nirvana’s In Utero and Pixies’ Surfer Rosa among them — has died at the age of 61. Staff at Albini’s Electrical Audio recording studio confirmed …
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The Pixies have parted ways with bassist Paz Lenchantin after a decade-long run with the band. They’ll be joined by former Band of Skulls bassist Emma Richardson when they kick off a European tour on March 8 in Dublin, Ireland. The news of Lenchantin’s exit from the group came via …
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Modest Mouse and Pixies will be co-headlining a North American tour this summer with Cat Power along for the ride. The three acts will be on the road throughout August and September, and the dates will take them across the continent starting in Asbury Park, New Jersey on August 20. …
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Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well-known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete …
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Over three decades after famously alluding to Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s groundbreaking art film Un Chien Andalou on the raucous opening track to 1989’s Doolittle, Pixies have returned to their roots with the surrealist new single, “Dregs Of The Wine.” Anchored by a rhythmic bass riff reminiscent of the …
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