Stumbled across these recently. The Breeders' Last Splash demos are presented here. The Breeders will always remind me of high school and like lots of people in '93-'94, "Cannonball" was the cornerstone of any respectable mixtape. Thankfully the Kim Deal connection is how I learned about The Pixies , which is how I learned about a lot of things. Funny how shit works like that sometimes. Anyway, there's plenty of good stuff here. Enjoy. [...]
Kim Deal is better known as the bassist and vocalist for The Pixies and lead vocalist for The Breeders, but tonight she will debut another project of hers that she has been working on with singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia . The show will be taking place at The Satellite as the openers for L.A. favorites The Happy Hollows . It is an early show with Kim Deal taking the stage at 8pm. Tickets are still available to purchase online through Ticketfly for only $8.00 plus any additional service fees. This is sure [...]
KimDealNinaNastasia A new project featuring Kim Deal of the Pixies /Breeders and New York-based singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia makes it debut at the Satellite tonight. The show is expected to be announced later this morning. The band's surprise set will be at 8 p.m., prior to the announced bill headlined by Los Angeles trio the Happy Hollows .
Filed under: Exclusive , The Hit List Getty Images|FilmMagic|Getty Images There are plenty [...]
I am always late for everything and i take my time looking into the vast ocean of music. To effectively filter through endless posts of the blogosphere it makes sense to soak in it before you speak. Another day, another million artists being called the next big hype and EMA's first record, Past Life Martyred Saints , was one of the most blogged about names in 2011 thus far to slide into such a category. Erika M Anderson has learned well. [...]
Kim and Kelley Deal turn 50 today and the iconic twins have quite a cake helping them celebrate the occasion: Read More...
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Spinner Interview Courtesy of the Pixies It's been a big spring for '90s alt-rock. There was another Kurt Cobain deathaversary . Krist Noveselic joined Dave Grohl on the new , Butch Vig -produced Foo Fighters album. Smashing Pumpkins ' back catalogue is being re-released . Soundgarden is recording . ' Singles ' [...]
A pesar de las anteriores declaraciones de Frank Black en el sentido de que los Pixies probablemente nunca más volverían a grabar un nuevo disco, parece que hay buenas nuevas para todos los que somos fans de la banda, ya que según la revista Billboard, Joey Santiago soltó la sopa y declaró que el grupo está preparando "probablemente" el material sucesor de Trompe Le Monde , su más reciente disco, que data de... 1991. Según el guitarrista, la banda está esperando su "momento a-ha" (en el argot gringo, significa el momento en [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Ed's Redeeming Qualities This weekend, Breeders violinist Carrie Bradley will go back to her roots -- the Boston alternative rock scene of the late '80s. Bradley's first band, the quirky folk-rock act Ed's Redeeming Qualities , retired in 1997 but is reuniting and returning to Boston for a one-off show at TT the Bear's club on Saturday, Jan.22. The event celebrates the [...]
90 Miles From Vegas es una de esas bandas indies de las que es bastante probable que no tengamos mucha información para leer o, inclusive, que la encontremos ahora tocando con otro nombre, en otro lugar, haciendo algún intento más que interesante pero bastante poco cubierto por los medios, e incluyo aquí a aquellos que se especializan en estar en sintonía con este tipo de bandas. ¿Por qué, entonces, rescatar uno de sus temas para recomendarlo? Bueno, porque el tema es genial desde varios aspectos, porque es bastante conocido dentro de la esfera de usuarios de You Tube y [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Continuing their highly successful 2010, OK Go return this week with the "Extra Nice Edition" of their latest album, 'Of the Blue Colour of the Sky.' While most hardcore Go-heads probably already have the original release, of note is a massive bonus disc that includes a handful of demos, remixes, covers and a lengthy interview with 'This American Life' host Ira Glass. OK Go were extra nice enough to let Spinner exclusively [...]
Almost every song on the radio talks about sex, and yes there are songs that can be described as sexual, but very few songs can capture true lust like "Hey". The opening guitar lick is so sensual, it seems almost dirty. The vocals are so filled with desire, that it almost comes across as begging. And the chorus erupts as Black and Kim switch off vocals, sounding like love gone perfectly right, or a relationship gone terribly wrong. Revisit the song below, as well as the Diplo remix... Pixies - "Hey" Bonus... [...]
Coming a little bit later than usual this week (one must sleep sometime), Something for the Weekend presents a video that has become a bit of a modern classic.With both the Pixies and Throwing Muses beginning a short term break in 1988 following an exhausting tour (both bands had been touring together throughout Europe for the Pixies album, Surfer Rosa), Kim Deal (Pixies) and Tanya Donelly formed
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Playing a rock show, saving a marriage: It's all in a day's work for Kim and Kelley Deal . Late in their set Saturday night at All Tomorrow's Parties at Kutsher's Country Club in Monticello, NY, the twin guitarists and Breeders leaders came to the aid of friend Steve Albini , who'd played earlier with his group Shellac . Albini's performance was gangbusters, and while fans were [...]
DOWNLOAD: Black Francis - "All In My Mind" (from New Tales To Tall - A Tribute to Love and Rockets ) Black Francis released Nonstoperotik (Cooking Vinyl) earlier this year and the BBC said that this disc was " [s]urely set to be one of the Pixies main man's strongest solo albums. " The Pixies are out on the road in August and Black Francis is playing a few one-off solo shows between dates. He is playing solo acoustic sets two nights at Joe's [...]
Fresh from a triumphant appearance at this year's Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, the Pixies have announced details of an upcoming tour of the US, where Black Francis , Kim Deal and co. will perform their acclaimed 1989 album 'Doolittle' in its entirety. The 11-date tour begins in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Sept. 7. As well as performing all of 'Doolittle''s songs, they will play all the album's B-sides in full too. Last year, the Pixies marked the 20th anniversary of the album's release [...]
The Pop Five is a series of Pop Candy readers' pop-culture top five lists. Today's contribution comes from Nick T. (NikT22) in Seattle: Over the years, I've run into dozens of celebrities: I've met musicians like Cowboy Junkies, Cocteau Twins, Rufus Wainwright, Chris Issak, Siouxsie Sioux, Bob Mould, Donny and Marie (I know! stop laughing). I've met Sarah Ferguson, Sarah Jessica Parker and Chuck Palahniuk. But who are the ones I've really loved? Here we go:
Kim and Kelley deal are two of the hottest babes in the history of indie rock. If you threw a house party back in the 90's and they showed up, they would probably just spend the whole time talking to each other in the corner and looking really cool and indifferent. This would be known as "the babe corner," and there would be no non-babes allowed. That's kind of how this video makes us feel - like we're on the outs of some cool inside joke between the band. They couldn't care less that they're making [...]
Kim and Kelley deal are two of the hottest babes in the history of indie rock. If you threw a house party back in the 90's and they showed up, they would probably just spend the whole time talking to each other in the corner and looking really cool and indifferent. This would be known as "the babe corner," and there would be no non-babes allowed. That's kind of how this video makes us feel - like we're on the outs of some cool inside joke between the band. They couldn't care less that they're making [...]
The Florida based band Surfer Blood made a pretty big splash late last year when their debut single "Swim" became a bit of an underground hit. The single preceded the full-length Astro Coast by a number of months, but it certainly hinted at what was to come.
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