This is just a rumor at this point. But how cool would this be? Taken from billboard.com:

A decade after a bitter breakup, seminal alternative rock act the Pixies may reunite next year. At deadline, rumors of a tour and a potential new studio album remain unconfirmed. The manger of frontman Frank Black (aka Black Francis) tells Billboard.com, "I have received an offer for the Pixies to perform in April. That said, over the past 10 years, I have received dozens of offers for the Pixies." A spokesperson for the group's former label, 4AD, had no comment on potential reunion plans.

The group's last major tour came while supporting U2 on a number of U.S. dates on the 1992 Zoo TV trek. Goldenvoice Promotions head Paul Tollett tells Billboard.com he has tried to book the Pixies "every year" for the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. "I still haven't made any movement," he reports. "[I'm] not sure if they are speaking to each other."

The Pixies -- vocalist/guitarist Black Francis, vocalist/bassist Kim Deal, lead guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer David Lovering -- released four albums and an EP over the course of five years in the late '80s/early '90s, providing a blueprint for the alternative rock boom that dominated the latter decade.

In 1993, two years after the release of the group's final album, "Trompe Le Monde" (4AD/Elektra), Francis (real name: Charles Thompson) sent a press release to the media announcing the breakup of the Pixies. He went on to forge a solo career, now nine albums strong, as Frank Black. Deal found post-Pixies success with the Breeders, whose 1994 album "Last Splash" (4AD/Elektra) peaked at No. 33 on The Billboard 200 in 1994 and has sold 978,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Black has been incorporating Pixies songs into live performances with his band the Catholics with increasing regularity over the past few years. Songs like "Where Is My Mind?," "Mr. Grieves," "Crackity Jones," "Nimrod's Son," "Holiday Song" and "Gouge Away" have all surfaced in recent setlists, and a version of the latter recorded in April in Regina, Saskatchewan, appears on a new Frank Black & the Catholics EP, "Nadine," licensed this week by spinART exclusively to a number of independent U.S. retailers.

In July, Black told London radio station XFM that he still fantasized about reuniting his old band. "I do dream about the Pixies reunion, I do have to say," he said. "It's like those schoolboy dreams when you don't do your homework and you don't study for the test, but I'm at the gig and we're hanging out, but it's an utter failure and I don't know the songs, and hardly anyone turns up for the gig and people walk out. That's what I'm afraid of, that it'd be a big, big failure."

He added: "We might. We do get together and have private jams together, but not for public consumption."

During the Pixies' career, the group never made a huge commercial dent (their top-selling album is 1989's "Doolitte" at 552,000 copies). But its impact on critics and fans was far reaching. A handful of collections of Pixies material have surfaced during the band's hiatus, including the 1997 Elektra double-CD set "Death to the Pixies," which featured favorites and live compilation discs. Last year, spinART Records released "Pixies," a collection of unreleased songs from the band's original 1987 demo tape.

Yeah, that'd be way cool. New album out this month from Mr Black 2
[This message was edited Wed Sep 10 14:06:01 PDT 2003 by bananacologne]

bananacologne said:

I think Joey Santiago(Pixies guitarist)is on the new album, also.It'd be awesome if Frank Black went on tour to promote this album and as an encore, his old band would come up on stage and do some old Pixies tunes! That would blow my mind!!!

I'm surprised people aren't more excited about this.

It almost seems like they have more fans and credibility now than when they were around.

TRON said:

Frank has since then claimed that he was joking -- and quite frankly it seems rather improbable.

I'd rather not see them reunite. I think they left behind a perfect legacy, and I don't wanna see some half-hearted reunion with a bunch of songs that can't touch the glory days. Frank and Kim have done great stuff post-Pixies - I'd rather they keep expanding (erm...not literally, though it's a bit late for that).

Anxiety said:

I taped the Pixies documentary & Frank looks like he has put on some weight.
[This message was edited Wed Sep 10 18:26:57 PDT 2003 by PhilG]

Nirvana's musical reputation was built on the foundation of The Pixies.

Wouldn't it be great if they just remained legendary, never having put out a single dud? Anyway, I already saw them live on the Bossa Nova tour! That rocked .

Supernova said:

Oui, since Kim Deal / The Breeders haved crashed maybe that there is a hope for a reunion
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TRON said:

Because it's just a damn rumor

Hmm, would they still be able 2 capture that incredible song writing ability?



My answer...cause they can its Black Francis!! And U cant get cooler than Kim Deal.