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It’s happened again: Kim Deal has left the Pixies, the influential rock band she co-founded with Frank “Black Francis” Black, guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer Dave Lovering in 1986. Deal is also ...

Nirvana. Radiohead. Weezer. All have the Pixies’ weird-out/freak-out signature stamped across their foreheads. Formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986, Pixies changed the alt-rock game forever with ...

It may have been just one stop on a reunion tour, but the Pixies sounded far from stale during the nearly sold-out show Tuesday night at The Milwaukee Theatre. {image1} It may have been just one stop ...

The Pixies’ “Wave of Mutilation” is a song with a strange, mysterious, and downright Murakami-esque history. Released for the first time in 1989, the song describes a phenomenon that was neither ...

The Pixies' second act continues with the band ready to unleash their seventh studio album, Beneath the Eyrie, this fall. The 12-song collection will be their third studio album since reuniting, and ...

At Los Angeles' El Rey Theatre on Monday night, the indie-rock stalwarts sell out (again), gloriously. By Jeff Miller The Pixies El Rey - P 2013 When the Pixies decided to stage a reunion tour in 2004 ...

The reunited Pixies in 2004. Bassist Kim Deal left the band in 2013. (Chapman Baehler) Full disclosure: I've never been a Pixies fan. I bought "Doolittle" toward the end of high school, the same day I ...

In the vein of alternative rock, few bands carry the weight of the Pixies, the cerebral project started by Black Francis just over 30 years ago. The Bostonian four-piece released some of the biggest ...

Kim Deal has quit the Pixies. On Friday (June 14), the iconic band’s three remaining members issued the following statement: We are sad to say that Kim Deal has decided to leave the Pixies. We are ...

Whether you call it fate or luck, the story of the Pixies is coated in a thick veneer of fairy dust. The Boston-bred band was an enigma from its inception. It formed after guitarist Joey Santiago read ...