Pixies

The Breeders

Why Artists Should Stop Playing Their Seminal Albums Live

On a wispy evening last October, my housemate and I went to see GZA perform his magnum opus Liquid Swords in full at D.C.'s swanky Howard Theater. I wasn't the only one with high expectations. The crowd's hunger escalated with Killer Mike slaying his opening set, pulling out perfectly punctuated sho ... More >>

Let Black Francis Sing His Songs About Mustaches and UFOs To You Tonight

He's a man of many monikers and moods, and he rocks under any name. Charles Thompson / Frank Black / Black Francis has 23 albums to his credit, beginning in 1988 with Surfer Rosa by the Pixies, a band where the tired journalistic cliché "seminal" actually applies. Black Francis performs tonight ... More >>

'Sounds of Ether'

Nesting

Ringo Deathstarr

FIGHTING FORWARD

Local punks set out to Northside

ALTERNATIVE ART

Rock stars can do more than just rock

The Henry Clay People

Black Francis

Hear Tokyo Police Club's Latest: "Boots of Danger (Wait Up)"

​"Boots of Danger (Wait Up)" is the second single to be released off Tokyo Police Club's second full-length, Champ, which is due in June. The first, "Breakneck Speed," was a kind of a nostalgic, dazed Pixies ode; "Boots of Danger" is more upbeat, one of the many whistling anthems by this Canad ... More >>

Young@Heart

This Week's Voice: The Pixies, R. Kelly and Devendra Banhart, Victim in Pain at 25, Up In the Air, and More

The Pixies, their generation's nostalgia-pimping gold standard. Photo by Jared Gruenwald​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla goes in for some belated nostalgia with the Pixies and Doolittle, Drew Hinshaw compares sexual pervert artistes R. Kelly and Devendra Banhart, Jason Buhrmester re ... More >>

Fresh Waves of Mutilation From the Pixies

Sated indie legends revisit Doolittle at Hammerstein Ballroom

This Week in the Voice

​Rats, drug dealers, hookers, a gambling "casino' in one of the apartments: 2320 Aqueduct Avenue in the Bronx sounds like a terrible building. It used to be bad when one of the Voice's perennial "10 Worst Landlords" owned it. Then he sold out to fancy new owners -- including a Tishman Speyer a ... More >>

Tonight! Thurston, Jimmy, Julian, or Wiz.

​Somewhat of a slow night, unless you're in for the Pixies at Hammerstein (featuring Jay Reatard!) or Sonic Youth at the Music Hall of Williamsburg (featuring, uh, Talk Normal!). Jimmy Buffett's at Madison Square Garden if you're into booze-soaked, beachy frivolity; Julian Plenti, a/k/a the Du ... More >>

A Nightlife (And Ice-Skating) Enthusiast's Guide To Thanksgiving Eve

NYC is a town of transplants, a fact that's never more obvious than during the holiday season. While thousands of New Yorkers take off work early and spend hours upon hours in traffic, at the airport, and stuck in train stations, we think those of you who are left in town should make the most of i ... More >>

Pixies

Tonight! The Pixies! Playing Dolittle! The Whole Thing!

​Verily, the great Pixies Dolittle run begins tonight at Hammerstein Ballroom and runs through Wednesday. "Tame" is gonna be awesome. Stubhub is your only friend for the first three shows, but the fourth -- that 1 a.m. Wednesday night/Thursday morning deal, is still attainable. And even if tha ... More >>

The Breeders

Siren Festival 2009: Q&A With Grand Duchy's Frank Black

"I'm more of a freak show kind of a guy." Whether it's through his alter-ego Black Francis, his seminal band the Pixies, or under his own name, Frank Black has become iconic in terms of not only indie rock, but pop culture as a whole. His new project is Grand Duchy, which he formed with his wife ... More >>

M.I.A. Officially More Influential Than Prince, Lil Wayne, or Kanye West

Congratulations to M.I.A. for making Time's list of the 100 most influential people in 2009, two years after her last record, and three months after being nominated for her first Grammy. Spike Jonze, in his adulatory but perceptive ("She reacts to whatever's in front of her: 'Those are booming India ... More >>

Slang in the Nation: Prostitutes Call Slow-to-Satisfaction Customers "Thirty-Threes"

Kings of Leon Get a Little Too Huge

SOUTHERN GENTLEMEN

Kings of Leon keep getting prettier

AWESOMER

Nostalgia-punk trio Blood on the Wall look forward

Interview: Black Francis a/k/a Frank Blank a/k/a Charles Michael Kittredge Thompson IV

The Breeders are Still Sentient

More divine hammers and Mexican ballads from the Deal sisters

Bottomless Pit's Hammer of the Gods

Grieving Silkworm members regroup, balancing anger and acceptance

The Octopus Project's Electro Mini-Symphonies

Evil Empire Strikes Back

A rap-nostalgia bonanza feels like a rock show and sounds like a resurrection

Live: Cafe Tacuba at Central Park SummerStage, 07.14.07

'Radiant City'

Rocking the Boat

Radiohole's whale of a show

Rock Steady

The Great Cover-up, Part 2

Give the Chinese What They Want

The many moods, names, aspirations, and tourmates of Mr. Frank Black

For Those About to Doc

Rock and roll as a cause, a cage, and a job

Monday 8/7 and Tuesday 8/8

Get Your War Off

Susan Sarandon, Cindy Sheehan, and Peaches bring it home

Who Needs Boxes 2005

That's not counting Johnny Cash, of course, but New Orleans finds are worth seeking out

Rack Focus

Save Guernica?

Club shuts its doors; Har Mar infiltrates the pop market

Back 'n' Black

Frank Black Francis and his Pixies return dry and determined after a dozen years

Lollapalost

Where to catch your favorite bands now that the big show is canceled

Brand-New Lag

Late as usual, labels learn that downloading is their friend

Listings

We come from garageland and we rock with drink in hand

The '80s Are Gone, but the Joke's the Same—Pretty in Pink

The Reputations

Basement Jaxx