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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 …

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 …

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: …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …