The prolific band played four tracks from the forthcoming album. The four-piece—consisting of Charles Thompson, aka Black Francis, David Lovering, Joey Santiago, and new bassist Emma Richardson—looked ...

The alternative '90s boom owes a big thanks to the Pixies and their songs. The Boston, Mass. rockers, consisting of frontman Black Francis, guitarist Joey Santiago, bassist Kim Deal and drummer David ...

Even for a frontman whose songs are often dripping with menace, Biblical violence, death and sci-fi imagery, Charles Thompson IV, aka Pixies howler-in-chief Black Francis/Frank Black is finding the ...

You could split the output of Pixies into two eras. There's their early work — the seminal albums they put out in the years after forming in Boston in 1986, like Surfer Rosa, Doolittle and Trompe le ...

Charles Thompson, known to Pixies fans by his pseudonyms Frank Black and Black Francis, has some ideas about the band he co-founded in 1986. They’re pretty basic. “I believe in my heart that the ...

Even after all these years, a Pixies song sounds like a Pixies song. That’s the case with “I Hear You Mary,” a haunting ballad on last year’s “The Night the Zombies Came,” which has loud-quiet-loud ...

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 ...

Both singles mark the band’s first new music in two years. According to a press release, they see Pixies create “a macabre and cinematic picture of American pop culture”. The raging ‘You’re So ...

If you were to ask what Joey Santiago and the Pixies were like a generation ago, you’d be met with an array of different answers. According to a 1991 account from The Times, the band descended upon ...

Defining a place in a band as celebrated as the Pixies may seem a near-impossible task, especially given that her predecessors included the likes of co-founder Kim Deal, but bassist Paz Lenchantin was ...