The Pixies’ “Wave of Mutilation” is a song with a strange, mysterious, and downright Murakami-esque history. Released for the first time in 1989, the song describes a phenomenon that was neither ...

Last month, when a band named after the Pixies song “Debaser” was announced the night before the Pixies were in town to coheadline a tour with Weezer, the hint seemed pretty clear: The Pixies were ...

Pixies continue their 40th anniversary celebrations with a reissue of Complete B-Sides: 1988-97, out today. Remastered 25 years after its initial release ...

As the lead single from Pixies’ second album Doolittle (1989), “Monkey Gone to Heaven” was the first song many people had heard from the Boston-based alternative rock band. It still stands as one of ...

There’s no band quite like the Pixies with its blend of dissonant noise pop, psychedelic hard rock, surf-drenched reverb, punk rock-ish DIY leanings, and surreal lyrics that cover bizarre topics from ...

Set lists don’t exist in the world of the Pixies. Each night is unpredictable. “We don’t have a set list written out and put by our feet,” guitarist Joey Santiago said while calling from Indianapolis.

NEW YORK (AP) — As a young musician, Pixies frontman Charles Thompson was determined to make it past the velvet rope at the mythical club that is rock stardom. “It inspired us even from the time ...