Guardian Music — Sample the band’s Samson and Delilah for the stoner college crowd, spectral lyrics of bizarre bodily physics, and emotionally tense alien road-traffic accidentsIn retrospect it’s a miracle that Black Francis, Pixies’ own Dr Jekyll, made it thro... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — PLUS: Stream Amanda Palmer & Jherek Bischoff's new Bowie covers EP photo: Pixies in Asbury Park in 2015 (more by PSquared) The lineups for the David Bowie tribute shows at Carnegie Hall (3/31) and Radio City (4/1) have been expanded.... more info

Nialler9 — Some gig announcements from the last few days: The Pixies started announcing some European shows yesterday and today, the news reaches that Irish gigs are included, specifically 13 July 2016 – Live at the Marquee, Cork 14 July 2016 – Iveagh Garde... more info

Core News — “Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn of Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods sit in for Iggy Pop tonight. They’ll be spinning tracks by the likes of The Jam, Pixies, Two Lone Swordsmen and Laurie Anderson amongst others. Sleaford Mods hit the Top 20 with t... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — NYC-based new music collective Bang on a Can have announced their 2015-2016 agenda, and that includes the return of the all day Bang on a Can Marthan next summer (happening in Rotterdam, MA and NYC), and much more before... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Pixies @ Chicago's Metro 6/10/2015 Overall, Deal or not, they played really well, and they seemed into it. Like I said above, the last time I saw them, at Riot Fest, and maybe even the time before that, they seemed... more info

Stereogum — T.T. The Bear’s Place is an iconic rock club in Cambridge, Massachusetts that’s been in operation since 1983. But it’s set to close next month, apparently because club owner Bonney Bouley just doesn’t feel like doing it anymore. Pixies haven�... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Robert Plant at Sasquatch 2015 (more by Debi Del Grande) Fresh off playing Bonnaroo 2015 this past weekend, Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant has added more tour dates to his tour schedule. He has a Philly show with the Pixies... more info

Stereogum — Pixies debuted a new song, “Um Chagga Lagga,” at New York’s Beacon Theatre on 5/26, and today, Rolling Stone posted two videos of the band playing a live session, one of which was a rendition of the track. Though the song still hasn’t been re... more info

Stereogum — Frank Black spoke to The Daily Beast‘s James Joiner about the making of Pixies’ forthcoming record, and inadvertently, about how confusing iTunes is. I get it. Every time my computer asks me if I want to update iTunes I angrily close the window l... more info