http://pixiesmusic.com/interpol.html
One video clip(La La Love you) and 5 audio clips, totally free. Go Download them! Very good quality and pretty fun.
The Pixies just continue to roll on after, what I assumed would be a one off reunion tour. Hopefully more new material is on its way, but that has seemed to be in a perpetual holding pattern.
It still gives me a 14 year old's thrill to see them live. The Pixies were somewhere between my Beatles or Big Star. A band that toured so briefly you had to be the perfect age to see them live. Like both the Beatles and Big Star, they influenced nearly everyone I have liked since. Like Big Star they were appreciated by most people more after the fact than while they were an active act.
I was just a little too young, and lived a little too far from civilization(in Northern Michigan) to go and see them while they were together and they were gone just as I went away to school and could have. I saw Nirvana that first fall, month's before Cobain (as big of a Pixies fan as ever lived) died. I felt lucky to have seen them. It was uneventful but solid show...except for a pretty girl stealing my borrowed Sony Professional tape recorder(yes, tape). While I felt lucky, looking back, it was really a make-up for missing the Pixies.
To this day, I put the Pixies on regularly. They still sound fresh, still sound better than most of the new music that they inspired. Strangely, as I think of that music and remember that time, I honestly can't say that about Nirvana. While the music is clearly classic, that is almost how it hits me, as Classic Rock. With no more depth or inspiration than your run of the mill Doobie Brothers record. OK, I am kidding. Nirvana could melt Michael McDonald's brain just turning their amps on, but listening to Nirvana is not that different than listening to the Who for me. Kurt Cobain is probably wishing he could mainline himself into a deeper oblivion, if he is somehow reading this from the grave. But I think he knew it before we did. The business sucked some of the life out of one of the unique voices in music.
Thankfully for me, if not the Pixies checking accounts, the Pixies never ascended to those heights. And probably because of that, are still around, touring to the biggest crowds of their lives with music that I love almost as much as the day I bought Surfer Rosa at the late. lamented Full Moon Records in downtown Traverse City 20 years ago.
A side note: The Mexico City gig pales in comparison to the, unsurprisingly, somewhat cool, somewhat goofy Pixies logic displayed in their outlook on the recent show in Chile:
In a press release, frontman Black Francis says, "We were so moved by this story, by how many lives had been affected by this, and how the Chilean people banded together to support what can only be described as a miracle. We wanted to do something to show how affected we were by this, so we played a special set at tonight's show, 33 songs for the 33 miners, the longest set we've ever played as a band. We found out five minutes before we went on stage that all of the miners had safely reached the surface. This was definitely one of the most meaningful show we've ever played."
Ok.............anyway, it is nice to have them playing. Whatever the reason.
On top of that, the Pixies have just launched a new website with free shows every week. Here is the release:
We're writing to let you know that we've just released an all new PixiesMusic.com.
It feels like the right time for the band to have a proper home, share some music, and provide a place for fans and the band to communicate. We'll be releasing live shows once a week starting immediately, and have posted a free show (Live at Coachella, 2004) just for you through the end of the week.
Since you're on the list, you can get the free show at http://www.lalapixiesloveyou.com.
We hope you like what we've done, and hope you're ready to help add content to the site.
Coming Soon:
Wavves Vs No Age, Episode 2: Attack of the Drone
and...
Ruminations on a Reatard: Jay Reatard, One year after his death
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