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The Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in 1986 by Black Francis. Currently, their latest album is called Doggerel, which was released on September 30, 2022.
==History==
===Formation===
Guitarist Joey Santiago and songwriter Black Francis (born Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV) met when they lived next to each other in a suite while attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst.https://www.spin.com/2013/06/life-to-the-pixies/ Although Santiago was worried about distractions, he noticed Francis played music and the pair began to jam together. Francis embarked on a student exchange trip to Puerto Rico to study Spanish.https://www.spin.com/2013/06/life-to-the-pixies/ After six months, he returned to Amherst and dropped out of the university. Francis and Santiago spent 1984 working in a Boston-area warehouse, with Francis composing songs on his acoustic guitar and writing lyrics on the subway train.
The pair formed a band in January 1986.https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pixies-mn0000895136/biography Two weeks later, Francis placed an advertisement seeking a bass player who liked both the folk act Peter, Paul and Mary and the alternative rock band Hüsker Dü. Kim Deal was the only respondent, and arrived at the audition without a bass, as she had never played one before. She was invited to join as she liked the songs Francis showed her. She obtained a bass, and the trio started rehearsing in Deal's apartment.
After recruiting Deal, Kim paid for her sister, Kelley Deal, to fly to Boston and audition as drummer. Though Francis approved, Kelley was not confident in her drumming, and was more interested in playing songs written by Kim; she later joined Kim's band the Breeders.https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/mar/14/popandrock.breeders Kim's husband suggested they hire David Lovering, whom Kim had met at her wedding reception. The group arrived at a name after Santiago selected the word "pixies" randomly from a dictionary, liking how it looked and its definition as "mischievous little elves".https://www.spin.com/2013/06/life-to-the-pixies/ The Pixies moved rehearsals to Lovering's parents' garage in mid-1986 and began to play shows at bars in the Boston area.https://www.spin.com/2013/06/life-to-the-pixies/
===Breakup (1993-2003)===
In early 1993, Francis announced in an interview to BBC Radio 5 that the Pixies were finished, without however telling the other members of the band. He offered no explanation at the time.https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pixies-mn0000895136/biography He later called Santiago and notified Deal and Lovering via fax.
After the breakup, the members embarked on separate projects. Black Francis renamed himself Frank Black,https://www.allmusic.com/artist/frank-black-mn0000167287/biography and released several solo albums, including a string of releases with Frank Black and the Catholics.https://web.archive.org/web/20110719121537/http://cookingvinyl.com/artists/frank-black-and-the-catholics/#2 Deal returned to the Breeders, who scored a hit with "Cannonball" from their platinum-selling Last Splash in 1993, and released more albums several years later.https://allmusic.com/artist/the-breeders-p3770/biography She also formed the Amps, who released one album.https://web.archive.org/web/20080922000052/http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-05-28/music/cool-as-kim-deal/
===Reunion (2003-2012)===
In the years following the Pixies' breakup, Black dismissed rumors of a reunion,https://www.spin.com/2013/06/life-to-the-pixies/https://magnetmagazine.com/2001/04/15/frank-black-odd-ball/https://web.archive.org/web/20111017034548/http://www.nme.com/news/pixies/5654 but incorporated an increasing number of Pixies songs in his sets with the Catholics,Mendelssohn, John (2005). Gigantic: The Story of Frank Blank and the Pixies. Omnibus Press. and occasionally included Santiago in his solo work and Lovering's magic show as an opening act to concerts.https://www.spin.com/2013/06/life-to-the-pixies/ In 2003, a series of phone calls among band members resulted in some low-key rehearsals, and soon the decision to reunite.https://www.spin.com/2013/06/life-to-the-pixies/ By February 2004, a full tour was announced,https://web.archive.org/web/20111017025652/https://www.nme.com/news/pixies/16060 and tickets for nearly all the initial tour dates sold out within minutes.https://web.archive.org/web/20110316171857/https://www.nme.com/news/pixies/16117 
The Pixies played their first reunion concert on April 13, 2004, at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis, Minnesota.https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-nme-7399-307708 A warm-up tour through the U.S. and Canada (in which all dates were recorded and released as individual limited-edition CDs) was followed by an appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pixies-mn0000895136/biographyhttp://www.mtv.com/news/1486774/cure-pixies-hottest-things-at-coachella-aside-from-weather/ The band then spent much of 2004 touring in locations including Europe and the UK.https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pixies-mn0000895136/biography The group won the Act-of-the-Year award in the 2004 Boston Music Awards.https://bostonmusicawards.com/bma/boston-music-awards-2004/ The 2004 reunion tour grossed over $14 million in ticket sales.http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-11-07/news/0411070342_1_pixies-band-comeback-tour
===Kim Deal's Departure===
On June 14, 2013, the Pixies announced that Deal had left the band. Two weeks later, the band released a new song, "Bagboy", as a free download via the Pixies' website. The song features Jeremy Dubs of Bunnies and formerly of the Bennies on vocals in place of Deal.https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/jul/01/new-music-pixies-bagboy As of 2023, Deal and her former band mates have no relationship.https://www.allmusic.com/blog/post/the-pixies-joey-santiago-talks-tour-recording-with-steve-albini
==Legacy==
The Pixies are credited with popularizing the extreme dynamics and stop-start timing that would become widespread in alternative rock. Their songs typically feature hushed, restrained verses, and explosive, wailing choruses.https://magnetmagazine.com/2001/04/15/frank-black-odd-ball/ Artists including David Bowie, Matt Noveskey, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, U2, Nirvana, the Strokes, Alice in Chains, Weezer, Bush, Arcade Fire, Pavement, Everclear, Kings of Leon and Matthew Good have cited admiration of or influence by the Pixies.https://web.archive.org/web/20121118155748/http://altmusic.about.com/od/artists/a/thepixies.htmhttps://web.archive.org/web/20110715181115/http://www.rhinomedia.com/rzine/pressrelease.lasso?PRID=330https://www.allmusic.com/artist/weezer-mn0000243008/biographyhttp://magnetmagazine.com/2010/01/19/from-the-desk-of-everclears-art-alexakis-the-pixies%E2%80%99-%E2%80%9Cdoolittle%E2%80%9D/https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,695242,00.html Bono of U2 called the Pixies "one of America's greatest bands ever",https://web.archive.org/web/20110715181115/http://www.rhinomedia.com/rzine/pressrelease.lasso?PRID=330 and Radiohead's Thom Yorke said that the Pixies "changed my life".https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/a-gigantic-influence-on-pop-music-26567603.html Bowie, whose own music had inspired Francis and Santiago while they were at university, has said that the Pixies made "just about the most compelling music of the entire 80s."https://web.archive.org/web/20110715181115/http://www.rhinomedia.com/rzine/pressrelease.lasso?PRID=330
One notable citation as an influence was by Kurt Cobain, on influencing Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which he admitted was a conscious attempt to co-opt the Pixies' style. In a January 1994 interview with Rolling Stone, he said, "I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band—or at least in a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard."https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/a-gigantic-influence-on-pop-music-26567603.htmlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3729933.stm Cobain cited Surfer Rosa as one of his main musical influences, and particularly admired the album's natural and powerful drum sounds—a result of Steve Albini's influence on the record. Albini later produced Nirvana's 1993 In Utero at the request of Cobain.Azerrad 1994, pp. 312–313
==Discography==
===Albums===
*Surfer Rosa (1988)
*Doolittle (1989)
*Bossanova (1990)
*Trompe le Monde (1991)
*Indie Cindy (2014)
*Head Carrier (2016)
*Beneath the Eyrie (2019)
*Doggerel (2022)
===Compilation Albums===
*Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim (1993)
*Death to the Pixies (1997)
*Pixies at the BBC (1998)
*Complete 'B' Sides (2001)
*Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies (2004)
*Minotaur (2009)
*Come On Pilgrim...It's Surfer Rosa (2018)
===Singles===
*Gigantic (1988)
*Monkey Gone to Heaven (1989)
*Here Comes Your Man (1989)
*Velouria (1990)
*Dig for Fire (1990)
*Planet of Sound (1991)
*Alec Eiffel (1991)
*Letter to Memphis (1992)
*Head On (1992)
*Debaser (1997)
*Bam Thwok (2004)
*Bagboy (2013)
*Um Chagga Lagga (2016)
*Tenement Song (2016)
*Classic Masher (2016)
*On Graveyard Hill (2019)
*Catfish Kate (2019)
*Hear Me Out (2020)
*Human Crime (2022)
*There's a Moon On (2022)
*Vault of Heaven (2022)
*Dregs of the Wine (2022)
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