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Frank Black

February 2022

  • ‘I’ve learned how to hide the appearance of restraint’ … Black Francis.

    The reader interview
    Pixies frontman Black Francis: ‘Kim Deal? We’re always friends – but nothing is for ever’

    As the alt-rockers release a live box set, their frontman answers your questions on Bowie, his 40 new Pixies songs and the alarming sexuality of his pets

January 2022

  • Black Francis, frontman for Pixies, who will be taking on your questions.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Pixies frontman Black Francis

    One of the most instantly recognisable voices in rock will answer your questions on his and the band’s career, as a new box set is released

July 2016

  • Comedian and musician Frank Sidebottom (Chris Sievey) with his art exhibited at Chelsea Space. For Portrait of the Artist. 25/6/2007

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about hobbies

    A regular reader who posts as sonofwebcore has picked a playlist from your nominations, with songs from Shonen Knife, Frank Sidebottom and the Fall in the list

December 2015

  • Cage the Elephant

    Cage the Elephant: Tell Me I’m Pretty review – puppyish energy, obvious influences

    This fourth LP has plenty of good songs but this Kentucky band are still looking up to their heroes

March 2014

  • Pixies

    Pixies confirm release of Indie Cindy, their first studio album in two decades

  • The Pixies in concert at Brixton Academy, London, Britain - 06 Oct 2009

    Black Francis speaks of bassist Kim Deal's departure from the Pixies

November 2013

  • Pixies

    Pixies: 'We were off the planet'

    Black Francis and his fellow Pixies knew life would be tough when bassist Kim Deal quit. Alexis Petridis hears how they overcame bad reviews – and found fresh inspiration in outer space

September 2013

  • Pixies at iTunes festival Black Francis and Joey Santiago

    Exclusive live stream: Pixies in Paris, in association with Deezer

  • Pixies at iTunes festival Black Francis and Joey Santiago

    Pixies – iTunes festival review

December 2011

  • Laura Barton

    Hail, hail, rock'n'roll
    How music can reach out and touch us

    Laura Barton
    Music gives us moments when – with a lyric, a chord change, a note or a drumbeat – a hand seems to come out and take our own

November 2011

  • Frank Black of the Pixies

    Frank Black launches own record label

    Pixies singer signs former member of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band to his new imprint, The Bureau

March 2009

  • The Pixies

    Pixies reunite for Isle of Wight festival

    Frontman Black Francis said the band would only re-form if they were working on fresh material, so a reunion could mean a new album – or just a fat cheque

April 2008

  • Singles club
    Strut like a Pixie

    Singles Club: Black Francis can't make up his mind whether he's king of Athens or a fat pig - but he makes some great rock music. Elsewhere in our singles' round-up, Mariah Carey's Touch My Body is clanger-free and Ebony Bones is anti flatulence

February 2008

  • Black Francis

    Garage, Glasgow

November 2006

  • LoudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies

    Retail: It goes to prove that the best rock documentaries are not fist-pumping celebrations of triumph but dark sagas of bitter rivalries and missed opportunities. Like Dig, like End of the Century, loudQUIETloud is a sad and beautiful ruin.

August 2006

  • 'I used to have a band, and now I don't'

    When the Pixies reformed, they invited a film crew to join them for the ride. Frank Black talks to Xan Brooks about the train-wreck of a tour that followed.

June 2006

  • Frank Black, Fast Man Raider Man

    (Cooking Vinyl)

September 2005

  • Pixies, Sell Out - The Reunion Tour 2004

  • The Pixies

August 2005

  • Misfits that fit

    The Pixies were a bunch of mavericks who in the late 1980s changed the face of modern rock before imploding - the band not big enough for its two star players. So what finally brought them back together 11 years later? They talk candidly to Laura Barton.

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