Brooklyn Vegan — The Sweetlife Festival comes to Columbia, MD's Merriweather Post Pavillion on May 30-31 with a lineup of Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, Pixies, Billy Idol, Phantogram, Charli XCX, Lucius, Vic Mensa, SZA, Raury, Sinkane, San Fermin, Goldlink, Bishop Nehr... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the second Pixies and John Grant show at Beacon Theatre are on local presale now. Use the password, INDIE. You can also get tickets to their other NYC shows and their NJ show with TV on the... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the Pixies second show at Beacon Theatre are on fanclub presale now (password: SNAKES) and go on MGSE Insider and Bowery presales tomorrow (3/25) at 10 AM. Toadies, who have been revisiting their past in cool ways... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Pixies in Northampton in 2014 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) The Pixies' May 27 show at Beacon Theatre sold out during the presale and they've now added a second Beacon show the day before (5/26). Tickets for that show... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the TV on the Radio show at Kings Theatre go on sale today at noon. Tickets for their BV-presented NJ show with the Pixies are on sale now. Tickets for the second Purity Ring, Brainds and Born... more info

Stereogum — Believe it or not, Frank Black released more full albums with backing band the Catholics than he ever did with the Pixies as Black Francis (though some would argue that Come On Pilgrim should be bumped up from an EP to an LP because, like, c’mon). ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the Modest Mouse shows at Webster Hall go on sale at 9 AM. Tickets for their Prospect Park show go on sale at noon. If you missed out on the BV presale, you can get tickets for... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the TV on the Radio show at Kings Theatre with Bo NIngen go on AmEx and venue presale today (3/5) at 10 AM. Password: KINGSFAN. Tickets are also still on BrooklynVegan presale for the BV-presented Pixies, TVOTR,... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Thrice Quebec's Amnesia Rockfest goes down from June 18-21 in Montebello, QC and the lineup was just announced, including the back-in-action Refused, Pixies, Slayer, Melvins, Buzzcocks, Descendents, ALL, Tenacious D, Deftones, Bad Re... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — We're officially in Music Festival Announcement Season, and the latest one is Atlanta's annual Shaky Knees Festival, happening May 8-10. This year includes The Strokes, The Avett Brothers, Wilco, Pixies, Social Distortion, Ryan Adams, Noel Gallagher'... more info