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BIZARRE: Pixies - What They Never Told You

Pixies declare Dave Grohl was ‘right’ about their ‘perfect’ album

The band’s guitarist and drummer have endorsed Dave Grohl’s glowing praise for Surfer Rosa while also sharing an update on their plans to write more music later this year.

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Mad Cool Festival 2026, review – Revellers worship our rock saviours Nick Cave, Lorde and Florence Welch

5/5 In sweltering Madrid, crowds genuflect before our Lorde and saviour, then congregate before charismatic, commanding performances from Cave and the Bad Seeds, Wolf Alice and Florence Welch

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"I'm ashamed of the way I treated them. They didn't deserve that." Steve Albini had regrets about how he spoke about Pixies

Steve Albini never pulled any punches, but he also wasn't afraid of owning his mistakes

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How the band David Bowie called “a psychotic Beatles”made the '80s weirdest and most influential alternative rock album

Nirvana's Kurt Cobain admitted it, but pretty much every single alt. rock band has 'borrowed' from Pixies' 1988 masterpiece Surfer Rosa

Louder

LA fans, Mark E Smith’s sisters and Frank Skinner doing the quiz: inside the totally wired festival on the Fall

Featuring cover bands, walking tours and the poet laureate as DJ, The Fall: Futures and Pasts is the ultimate Fall fan experience. But can our writer get through Eat Y’Self Fitter at karaoke?

The Guardian - UK

Pixies at Royal Albert Hall: Primally thrilling

4/5 Pixies give a reminder of their brutal maniac power within the splendour of the Albert Hall

Evening Standard

“We have a vision that’s going to take us through multiple albums”: Meet Saint Clair - the artful four-piece that sound like a collision of Radiohead and Pixies

Balancing expressive vocals and snarling guitar, Saint Clair might be the vital shot in the arm that British guitar rock has been waiting for

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Record Store Day 2026: Labi Siffre, Springsteen, Pixies - What releases should you be looking for?

Here are our picks for the best Record Store Day 2026 releases.

Euronews

"Heathen finds Bowie settling into his role as elder statesman of the post-punk art rock movement." David Bowie successfully charts a path into his later years with the help of a returning friend

David Bowie transforms once again, this time into himself

Louder

"I don’t really know what I’m talking about, I’m just doing it. There’s no art to it." How a meaningless French silent movie inspired the surreal alt. rock anthem that helped launch a musical revolution

The making of the alt.rock classic that inspired Kurt Cobain and took 10 minutes to write

Louder

"I've loved it and hated it, loved it and hated it": The story of the breakthrough hit its writer doesn't want to talk about ever again

Drink cider from a lemon? Grant Nicholas reveals the real inspiration behind Feeder's hit single Buck Rogers

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"It sounded like the way ice cream on a hot summer day tastes." How a Marquis de Sade biography, Willy Wonka's Oompa-Loompas and a bum note helped "a metal girl from Ohio" write a rock anthem that wowed Nirvana and changed Olivia Rodrigo's life

"We thought no-one would play it." The story behind one of the great '90s alt. rock singles, The Breeders' Cannonball

Louder

“I’d like to get a Flying V. I saw James Hetfield of Metallica playing one live, and I thought, ‘He’s got such a great guitar sound’”: Kim Deal on finally making her solo debut, working with Steve Albini and why she hates bright guitar tones

On her debut solo album, Nobody Loves You more, Kim Deal expands on the sonics she built in the Breeders and Pixies

Guitar World

Tim Booth reveals that James got 'a bit salty' about the success of Sit Down

James frontman Tim Booth has revealed that the band got "salty" about their anthem Sit Down overshadowing their other records.

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“I already played guitar with a pick, so that’s how I played bass. I didn’t know you were supposed to play it with your fingers!” Kim Deal’s DIY attitude with the Pixies inspired a generation of alt-rockers

Kim Deal’s insistent eighth-note basslines were one of the few constants of the Pixies’ zero-to-60 approach to alt-rock

Guitar World

“I had no idea that show would be my last. The whole thing felt like a divorce”: How Paz Lenchantin’s departure from the Pixies led to her first-ever solo album

She’s played in some of alternative music’s biggest bands. Now Lenchantin is back with a solo album fueled by a vintage P-Bass that Billy Corgan inspired her to buy

Louder

“There was a small fish that was aggressively following me and poking me… it freaked me out”: the high-school scuba trip that inspired an all-time alt-rock anthem

A pesky little creature at the bottom of the ocean prompted this singer and guitarist to lose his mind

International Business Times UK

Charlie Puth Weighs In On Taylor Swift's 'Showgirl' Copycat Claims — Did She Really Rip Off Old Hits?

Charlie Puth has weighed in on the Taylor Swift 'Showgirl' plagiarism debate, breaking down why similarities between songs are inevitable — and why Swift's new tracks might not be as unoriginal as critics claim.

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“If you persist in doing the things that you want to do to satisfy yourself, you can live your whole life that way”: watch a heartfelt message to a young musician from the late, great Steve Albini

The legendary In Utero and Surfer Rosa producer offered up some encouragement to a young drummer and his words of wisdom are worth listening to

Louder

Pixies announce new worldwide tour to celebrate their 40th anniversary

The alt-rock trailblazers will play six gigs in the UK and Ireland as part of their Pixies 40 shows

Louder

"The stench of success was horrible for a lot of people": Whipping boys of the music press in the 90s, Bush are still fighting back

Gavin Rossdale on thirty years of Bush, the mysteries of music making, Steve Albini and the defiance of gravity

Guitar World

“Learning to play with a pick was like dancing with two left feet. I had to entirely relearn the bass”: Having played in the Pixies, Zwan, and A Perfect Circle, Paz Lenchantin knows a thing or two about the bass guitar and its role in rock

Former Pixies bassist Paz Lenchantin still has a few tricks up her sleeve, including a debut solo album

Louder

Former Pixies, A Perfect Circle, Zwan bassist Paz Lenchantin announces debut solo album, Triste, shares first single Hang Tough

Paz Lenchantin pulls together partial A Perfect Circle reunion on her debut solo record

Metal Hammer

Soundgarden's Kim Thayil names the rock and metal bands he believes should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the legendary prog band he can't believe hasn't been inducted already

"I don’t think realistically I would see myself in the same club as the Beatles or the Stones or Zeppelin!"

MusicRadar

“When I came up with the guitar part, Krist looked at me and said, ‘That is so ridiculous’. I made the band play it for an hour and a half”: It defined the '90s, yet Nirvana’s biggest anthem started out as a self-confessed rip-off

It was written to be the ultimate pop song, and with over two billion streams, the legacy of Nirvana’s most popular cut endures

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