Ladies and gentlemen, it is a very dark day indeed. I don’t relish having to report the following news to you, but it is my duty as a card-carrying member of the Academy of Outstanding Music Journalists to keep the little people informed. So here it is: The Pixies have finally sold out. They’re not cool anymore. It’s over. They are officially… on The Internet.
Yes folks, I am as disappointed as you are. After 20+ years of keeping it real — i.e. faithfully toiling in obscurity and touring year-in and year-out for no money and little adulation — Frank and Kim and those other two guys have finally pulled a U2 on us and gotten their band sponsored by the World Wide Web. Who knows what the internet is paying them for a stunt like this, but I say, here and now, that if The Pixies have enough cash on-hand to blow it on such a frivolous commodity as their own personal, private, la-de-da website, then they’re nothing but a bunch of corporate shills and Faberge Egg-polishing sellouts! TMT will have nothing to do with a band that is so cavalier, so condescending, so maddeningly ego-maniacal that it sees fit to promote its own hype with a sickeningly self-aggrandizing web page. This will not stand!
Therefore, I am asking all true fans of indie rock music to please BOYCOTT the following fall Pixies US dates, which are once again in support of the 20th Anniversary of the band’s breakthrough 1989 LP Doolittle. What’s that you’re saying? You missed the Doolittle tour last year, and you’d “really like to catch one of these upcoming shows because all of the tracks on that record are awesome”?Wrong. All of the tracks on that record WERE awesome. Death to The Pixies.
Official TMT Pixies Doolittle Boycott Tour:
09.07.10 - Philadelphia, PA - Tower Theatre
09.10.10 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
09.13.10 - Atlanta, GA - Fox Theatre
09.17.10 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theatre
09.18.10 - Tulsa, OK - Brady Theatre
09.19.10 - Dallas, TX - Verizon Theatre
09.20.10 - Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Theatre
09.22.10 - Austin, TX - Austin Music Hall
09.24.10 - Mesa, AZ - Mesa Amphitheatre
09.25.10 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint
09.26.10 - San Diego, CA - RIMAC Arena
• New official Pixies Website: http://www.pixiesmusic.com
• 4AD: http://www.4ad.com/pixies/
• Tiny Mix Tapes: http://www.tinymixtapes.com
