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Pixies have announced a huge new tour of North America, following their huge success of their first new album since 1991, Indie Cindy. Full details are below.
After spending last year celebrating the 25th anniversary of Doolittle and recruiting a new bassist in the form of Paz Lenchatin, the Pixies are now embarking on a jaunt around North America.
While UK dates are still TBC, the tour kicks of in New Orleans and includes a stop att the brilliantly named Shaky Knees Festival in Georgia.
Tickets go on sale on February 27 with pre-sale beginning February 25th. The band promise that "All headline shows will feature a new and more varied set packed with songs from the entire Pixies catalogue, full of distortion howls and all the vivid dissonance a Pixies fan would expect. - all performed on a sparse yet stunning stage."
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The tour dates are the following:
5 May - New Orleans, LA - Civic Theatre
6 May - Birmingham, AL - Iron City
8 May - Atlanta, GA - Shaky Knees Festival
9 May Tampa, FL - Big Guava
11 May - North Charleston, SC - PAC
12 May - Charlotte, NC - Ovens Auditorium
13 May - Norfolk, VA - The Norva
15 May - Louisville, KY - Louisville Palace
17 May - Cleveland, OH - Masonic Auditorium
19 May - Niagara Falls, NY - Rapids Theatre
21 May - Burlington, VT - Flynn P.A. Center
22 May - Cooperstown, NY - Brewery Ommegang
24 May - Boston, MA - Boston Calling
27 May - New York, NY - Beacon Theatre
28 May - Brooklyn, NY - Kings Theatre
18 June - Montebello, Quebec - Amnesia Festival
watch the video for The Pixies' 'Ring My Bell' below
Discussing the band's comeback album Indie Cindy, Gigwise said: “There was a lot of pressure on Pixies’ fifth album, due in no small part to the fact that it was their first in nearly 25 years, and their first without bassist Kim Deal. The pressure didn’t get to them though, and they produced an LP worthy of its acclaimed predecessors. A particular highlight is the jagged, creepy 'Magdalena'.”
