Artist: black francis

Una triste noticia para todos los fans de los Pixies : Kim Deal , bajista y miembro fundador de la banda ha decidido abandonar la agrupación. La noticia se dio a conocer a través de un comunicado difundido por los Pixies. " Estamos tristes de contarles que Kim Deal ha decidido dejar la banda. Estamos muy orgullosos de haber trabajado con ella durante los últimos 25 años. A pesar de su desición, siempre la consideraremos un miembro de [...]

Black Francis, also known as Frank Black and Charles Thompson IV, performed songs from his entire career at Symphony Space in New York, NY on Friday, May 17th. Joining him for most of his set was Jeremy Dubs, who played drums. Reid Paley opened the show. For more from Gretchen, please visit her website. See more images from this post.

Un nuevo libro sobre Pixies , llamado A Visual History , está en proceso. Existe un proyecto para editar un nuevo libro sobre Pixies . Y los fondos para distribuirlo provienen de Kickstarter , un sitio que recauda fondos para costear todo tipo de iniciativas creativas antes de que salgan al mercado. El proyecto está encabezado por  Sean T. Rayburn , el mismo fan que emprendió lo que ahora es el website oficial de Pixies , allá [...]

Photos: Michael Bleggi Last Friday, Black Francis played a fairly unique show at a fairly unique New York venue. Performing at Symphony Space, a place that looks more appropriate for off-off Broadway theater, the Pixies frontman came out with a guitar, an amp and no setlist, improvising a wide-ranging selection of songs that spanned his entire career from old Pixies favorites to nuggets from his career fronting Frank Black and the Catholics to cult favorites from his numerous solo records. Joining him for most of the set was the wheelchair-bound multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Dubs who [...]

Black Francis , the man behind the most important indie rock band of all time the Pixies , doesn’t need a reason to tour. Since his initial departure from that band in early 1993, his schedule has been pretty non-stop, releasing an album at an average of one per year, even in the height of the Pixies triumphant mid-00s reunion tour which sparked nearly a decade of fevered speculation of a new record from the quartet. While still officially an institution, the Pixies haven’t played a show since 2011 after the conclusion of their never-ending “Doolittle” tour [...]

In 2000, musician Charles Normal was living in Oslo, Norway. One day, feeling particularly homesick, he hit up a second-hand record store, where he unearthed Lee Hazelwood's 1963 album Trouble Is a Lonesome Town . Almost immediately, Normal forged a connection with the album's profound sense of isolation and tales of dreary solitude. Now, some 13 years later, he's recruited a slew of A-list vocalists to record their own version of Hazelwood's under-celebrated debut.  "It really made me start thinking about America, where I hadn’t been to in quite some time,” [...]

During a pivotal scene in American Psycho, Christian Bale's character manically waxed poetic about the music of Huey Lewis & The News , declaring "Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost." It was that album that propelled the Bay Area-based band into stardom, spawning four Top 10 singles - [...]

Black Francis at LPR in 2011 ( more by Adam Siegel ) We recently mentioned that Black Francis (aka Pixies frontman Frank Black) has an upcoming NYC show which happens on May 17 at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway) with collaborator Reid Paley ( tickets ). It's since been revealed that that show is part of a larger tour Black Francis and Reid Paley are going on, which also includes a show in Asbury Park on May 14 at Wonder [...]

Black Francis - the project from Frank Black of The Pixies - has announced a spring tour with support from Reid Paley .

Por Ilan Kazez El 21 de marzo de 1988 se editaba Surfer Rosa de Pixies . Hace 25 años el mundo se encontraba con una factoría ambigua y desconcertante donde convivían el noise con melodías suaves, gritos con susurros, tabúes con sinsentidos. Actitud hardocore, baja fidelidad, estridencia, melodías, gritos, chillidos, poética extraña y naturalidad al máximo. En definitiva era un disco que contenía todos los ingredientes para generar un quiebre en el rock. [...]

Black Francis at LPR in 2011 ( more by Adam Siegel ) Onetime Pixies frontman Black Francis recently went on a tour with collaborator Reid Paley that hit the NYC area back in February for a Maxwell's show. Now Black Francis has more dates scheduled, including one happening in NYC on May 17 at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway) in the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, and Reid Paley is opening that one too. He'll be playing "an evening of solo acoustic [...]

Totally Tuesday things: ► U.K. folk-soul singer Lianne La Havas follows up her SXSW with two headlining shows at the El Rey Theatre. The first one happens tonight with Jamie N Commons as support. ► Thurston Moore's new band Chelsea Light Moving  [that's them pictured above] also swings by L.A. after SXSW. They'll be at the Echoplex with Grass Widow and Waxahatchee. ► Upstairs at the Echo, Ivan & Alyosha , Tall Tales & the Silver Lining and Daniel Ahearn & the Jones all team up for a pretty night [...]

Incoming: The Thermals, the Specials, Bajofondo, the Joy Formidable, Lianne La Havas, Chelsea Light Moving, Bernhoft, Black Francis, Imagine Dragons, Wavves, Charlotte Church, Reverend & the Makers, the Black Lips, the Spits, Matt Costa, Clutch, Doldrums, Christopher Owens, Burgerama, Anthrax, Django Django, 7 Lions, Jesca Hoop, Har Mar Superstar Above:  That's Lianne la Havas ' video for "Elusion." It's part of a two-part release with the other video being "Gone." The folk-soul singer made a big splash at SXSW, and kicks off her U.S. tour this week in support of her [...]

Has their been a more influential band than The Pixies ?  I would find it hard to argue against that, and I don't think I stand alone in that sentiment.  When The Pixies called it quits (read took a hiatus) in 1993, front man Frank Black (born with the far more regal name Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV) took the opportunity to explore his music through his solo project, as well as side projects such as Frank Black & The Catholics and pseudonym Black Francis .  The other face of The Pixies, Kim [...]

Pixies frontman Black Francis comes to The Abbey Bar tonight.  When his influential college-rock band called it quits in 1993, Francis (born Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV) turned the sudden void in his life into the start a solo career that now includes a couple of 4AD releases, multiple aliases and an eventual Pixies reunion.  ... Continue reading �

I just did something very very embarrassing. This is either the funniest thing I've posted on PURPLE SNEAKERS or the most embarrassing. I can't decide.  I decided the best way to prove I have the necessary cred to tackle  PIXIES ' magnum opus,  Doolittle , was to share with the world a Tumblr selfie from at least three years ago where I have proudly donned a shirt on which the album cover appears (PROOF: I have long hair now). Truth bomb: I still wear it now. [...]

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Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive , Q + A Wesley Curtis Last month, Black Francis and his wife, Violet Clark, released Let the People Speak , their second album as Grand Duchy . Featuring a more electronic vibe and an old-school radio DJ introducing the songs, it's a much more developed record than their 2009 debut, Petit Fours . Spinner recently caught [...]

There's a lot to get excited about this week. Choir of Young Believers has already gotten a bunch of good buzz, a new record from Counting Crows came as a complete surprise, and MoMA's Kraftwerk box set is sure to please a lot of people who couldn't get tickets to their New York shows. And that's not enough beginning to scratch the surface. There's also plenty of reissues from Opeth , long-awaited self-titled albums from Scars on 45 and Lissy Trullie , and a new record from Black Francis [...]

Grand Duchy have released a new video for "White Out", the latest single from their new album, Let The People Speak . Watch it below. Read more »