The Pixies showed their gratitude to their fans on Saturday night by playing a massive 30-song set at a packed venue in Los Angeles. The rockers added the surprise addition to their Doolittle Worl...

The Pixies frontman Frank Black has launched his own record label. The Monkey Gone to Heaven singer recently founded The Bureau and he's now in the process of recruiting new talent with limited r...

Canadian rockers Arcade Fire gave fans something to talk about during their set at the Coachella festival in California by teaming up with an experimental art group to create a bizarre stage show. ...

Elton John showed his support for the people of Israel during a performance in Tel Aviv on Thursday when he took aim at artists who had pulled shows in the country in protest of the government's al...

The Pixies frontman Frank Black only reformed the band for the bumper pay check - insisting the group's music career is "not about art" any more. The legendary group first split in 1993 and re-grou...

Cult singer-songwriter Jay Reatard has died, aged 29. The acclaimed Hang Them All singer, real name Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr., reportedly died in his sleep on Tuesday night. Reatard was found dead at h...

Happy Birthday To Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull star Shia LaBeouf (1986), Canadian actor Joshua Jackson (1978), Flaming Lips drummer Steven Drozd (1969), Pixies guitarist Joey ...

Super-producer Danger Mouse has been forced to scrap his upcoming collaboration album following a legal dispute with his record company. The Gnarls Barkley star - real name Brian Burton - te...

As a self professed cross between Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, The Pixies, Fugazi and Incubus, Arkansas' Always April certainly have a shroud of mystery around them. Their glam tinged fuzz rock has a sp...

"I guess it's 'alternative rock,' whatever that means," says Postcode guitarist Mikie Daugherty of the bands' music. "It's loud, quiet, beautiful, dischordant, melodic." Daugherty goes on to say, "...

Counting Crows were the first band in the O2 Wireless Festival's 4-year history to perform in front of a sell-out crowd in London's Hyde Park. Following this achievement, Live Nation is proud to pr...

Whenever one creates an "underrated" list, it often sparks an argument. Maybe that's because it's such a hard concept to define. Some might say an individual is far too under appreciated, while an...

It's been a long wait for the fans of R.E.M. Not so much to see their band play live, but to grab hold of such a high quality piece of work as this year's "Accelerate." Not since the early nineti...

Harmonix and MTV Games announced the third album to be added to the Rock Band™ Music Store catalog of downloadable content: The Pixies' Doolittle. On June 24th, one of the most influential rock re...

Happy Birthday To Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull star Shia LaBeouf (1986), Canadian actor Joshua Jackson (1978), Flaming Lips drummer Steven Drozd (1969), Pixies guitarist Joey ...

Bon Jovi will score a new Canadian performance record when they play in Toronto on Thursday. The concert at the Air Canada Centre will mark the fifth time the band has played the venue on the same ...

Rocker Black Francis has turned movie soundtrack composer - The Pixies star has written a new score for 1920 German silent film The Golem. Francis - aka Frank Black - will premiere his new sou...

When I first comprised this list, I had all the usual suspects: Thriller, Closer, Daydream Nation, Purple Rain - you know, the albums you see on every other top 10 list for the 80s. I got abo...

Following 2007's critically acclaimed hit "The Day We Met," roots-punk-rock songstress Sarah Borges and her band The Broken Singles will release a new video for the second single, "Stop And Think I...

On March 25, Counting Crows will release their fifth studio album (and their first in five years), Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, on Geffen/Interscope. "Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings"...

"I'm anticipating it... 27 was when Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison all died." Jessica Alba fears her next birthday in April will be her last. "No. I don't like those...

Pixies star Kim Deal has blasted classic rock bands who strive to make new music - because it's never as good as their old work. The bassist admits she boycotts new music from bands like The Rollin...

Cult rockers Pavement have topped a list naming the greatest indie-rock albums of all time The quintet's 1993 release Slanted And Enchanted beat out competition from Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation a...

Cambridge, Massachusetts – October 29, 2007 – Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, and MTV Games, a division of Viacom’s MTV Networks, along with distribution partner Electronic Ar...

Cult rocker Frank Black is still haunted by the memory of his recent visit to the home of tragic artist Herman Brood - because the house has remained exactly the same as it was when the Dutchman di...

Rocker Frank Black has ruled out of a reunion album with his Pixies band mates, because the stars have failed to resolve their differences. The singer reformed the 1980s group in 2004 for an...

Pixies frontman Frank Black has axed plans to record a new album with his cult rock group because the squabbling that originally split the group has returned. Black reformed the group in 200...

Happy Birthday To actor Shia LaBeouf (1986), Canadian actor Joshua Jackson (1978), Flaming Lips drummer Steven Drozd (1969), Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago (1965), "House" star Hugh Laurie (1959), ...

Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy will guest star as The Voice Of God in an upcoming episode of animated American TV show Lil' Bush. The singer/songwriter joins Pixies rocker Frank Black, who voic...

The excitement that was next-gen baseball last year was quickly extinguished by Major League Baseball 2K6. This mess of code featured batters that all swung in the same exact choppy animation and f...