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Might a brand new Pixies traditional be on the best way? Joey Santiago desires to get into that ‘mind set’
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Might a brand new Pixies traditional be on the best way? Joey Santiago desires to get into that ‘mind set’

Last updated: June 18, 2025 7:13 pm
Editorial Board Published June 18, 2025
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In case you have been to ask what Joey Santiago and the Pixies have been like a era in the past, you’d be met with an array of various solutions. Based on a 1991 account from The Occasions, the band descended upon the Hollywood Palladium one December night, sizzling on the heels of its newest album “Trompe Le Monde,” in dramatic vogue.

“The Pixies — anchored by David Lovering’s hard-driving drumming and Kim Deal’s booming bass, and marked by Joey Santiago’s distorted guitar crunches — have become a terrific live band, almost able to match the sonic rewards of their albums,” Steve Hochman wrote of the event.

“What counts is that the combinations of music and words and yelps strike nerves,” he added. “And, in truth, there’s more to many Pixies songs than that.”

Certainly, there was and is. However sadly for followers of the Boston foursome, “Trompe Le Monde” could be the final album they heard from the group earlier than its premature demise simply two years later, or so that they thought.

Shockingly, the band would get again collectively greater than a decade later, swapping bassist Kim Deal for Emma Richardson. Followers have been greeted with a reunion tour that noticed them featured in each Coachella and Lollapalooza, leaving them excited for what was to return. However, it could be one other exhausting wait of 10 years till they acquired their palms on “Indie City,” the group’s fifth studio album launched in 2014.

(L-R) Joey Santiago, Black Francis, Emma Richardson, and David Lovering of the Pixies.

(Travis Shinn)

It’s now an extra 10 years later, and the band has come full circle. They’ll as soon as once more play the Palladium on June 20 and 21 — the previous will see them carry out “Trompe Le Monde” in its entirety, simply as they did 34 years in the past.

“It’s great because there are songs in it that we hardly play,” Santiago says of the album. “So those are going to go back in rotation, and it gives us more songs to choose from.”

“The only problem is switching guitars. There’s a lot of switching guitars around,” he says with amusing.

He’s sat comfortably in what seems to be an workplace area. Atop his head is a inexperienced and white hat, with “LA” embroidered on its entrance. He’s acquired a white beard , which is sensible for the 60-year-old father of two.

It’s a narrative all too acquainted to the ‘90s greats — his bandmate, Frank Black, also has two kids, and so does drummer Dave Lovering.

“After our third year, pre-breakup, it became where it [touring] was just exhausting,” Santiago says, via Zoom. “No matter what age you are, it’s exhausting. … I took my youngsters [to shows] only for three days in the identical rattling time zone, they have been exhausted.”

The important thing to maintaining between all of the touring and album releases, in response to him, is to take heed to new music.

“You gotta feed the kitty or whatever,” he jokes.

He considers discovering music to be “part of the work,” and an important step to producing new concepts for the group. He says he’s been frequenting Moist Leg radio not too long ago: “It’s new, it’s fresh and it doesn’t suck.”

It’s been an essential issue with regards to their newest releases, corresponding to their latest venture, “The Night the Zombies Came,” which was launched in October 2024. In contrast to different post-breakup albums, this one allowed Santiago rather more freedom when it got here to laying down tracks. It exhibits between his “long solos” and further guitar work, which he says felt like he had returned to taking part in as he did when he was a child.

“It’s what I would have done if I were still in middle school or high school,” he says. “That kind of thing.”

And but, followers have nonetheless been essential of the band’s fashion since their reunion, fearful that they might by no means return to the sound that when shot them to fame on albums like “Surfer Rosa” and “Doolittle.” It appears to place the group in a difficult spot, always making an attempt to evolve whereas additionally drawing upon their roots.

“It does sound different, and hey, we’re different people,” Santiago says.

He seemingly takes all of it in stride, noting that whereas he’s making an attempt to “get back in that frame of mind” seen on these aforementioned albums. “Everyone’s got to be on the same page,” he stated.

“In the grand scheme of things, it’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t,” he continues. “If we’re too different, we’re gonna get flack for it. If we make ‘Doolittle’ part two, we’re gonna get flack for it.”

Joey Santiago of the Pixies poses close to the camera lens.

Joey Santiago poses for the digicam. He’s been with the band because it’s very beginning.

(Travis Shinn)

As for the longer term, the band merely plans on persevering with to do what it has at all times accomplished finest: making rock music. The members don’t look more likely to make any dramatic transitions into another genres, and don’t pay a lot thoughts to ongoing traits inside the music trade. They’re your traditional “Buddy Holly setup” with an “occasional splash of keyboards.”

“If you want guitar music, you can go to a few bands that will provide it, and we’re one of them,” he notes.

And maybe it’s this very method that has helped them to take care of their early followers whereas nonetheless interesting to youthful audiences. That, or social media, the place songs like “Where Is My Mind?” and “Monkey Gone to Heaven” are reposted lots of of hundreds of occasions throughout varied platforms. Although it additionally could also be value giving a nod to that remaining scene in “Fight Club.”

“It feels good,” Santiago says. “We’re lucky.”

It’s even been so infectious that at dwelling, he can now not draw back from his alter ego comfortably.

“They’re starting to get what I’m doing,” he says of his youngsters, with a smile. “They started getting at me two years ago.”

“They’re of that age, where they’ll go places and hear the Pixies. Their friends will say, ‘hey, have you ever heard of the Pixies? They’re really good.’ Professors are mentioning the Pixies. Parents are mentioning the Pixies. So they know, and they like it.”

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