Year of Reform, Not the Manning Type Geoff Trainor

These days all I ever seem to report about is either me being drunk, or bands reforming. Today is no exception. Well, okay, maybe that isn't 100% accurate. The Pixies influenced a whole generation of early 90s rockers, including the late Kurt Cobain. Last year, the group reformed for some live shows and recorded a couple new songs, 'Bam Thwok' and 'Ain't That Pretty At All', a cover released on a tribute album for the late Warren Zevon. The Pixies Just Before Playing a Show in Pleasantville Now, for the first time since 1991's, (14 years for those arts students out there) Trompe Le Monde, the Pixies are planning to record a new studio album. Pixies frontman, Black Francis, told the Sun, "It's all hugs and kisses, I'm pleased to report. We have been discussing recording a new album lately. As happy as we are with the success of the reunion tour, we really want to make a record for the right reasons, whether it is successful commercially or not". Tomorrow (July 19th) Black Francis is releasing a solo album entitled Honeycomb (under the name Frank Black), his first since 1996's The Cult of Ray. Download: Pixies - Where Is My Mind (Live December 2004) Pixies - Debaser (Doolittle 1989) Pixies - U-Mass (Trompe le Monde 1991)