Damn Hank Schrader is the lead singer of the Pixies!

One of the greatest band alive.

3:48 they talk about Kim.

Can't believe he let Heisenberg get away with it

Didn't know Pixies recorded a new album; gonna have to check it out. Kim's absence is a big loss, though. Her vocals and hypnotic bass lines were an integral part of the band.

Wow, I have mad respect for Black Francis! It's so cool how he embraces his critics.

Kim's departure really made an impact but The Pixies' latest album was still pretty great

This was a great Black Francis interview.

They seemed to want her to stick around but... no Deal.

You know i really love Kim as well but that being said i feel like she gets wayy too much credit as like, a prominent song writer. However it seems that the real root of the reason that she is so loved is because of her vocal presence in the old material. Which I love immensely, but Charles was the real game changer. Coupled with Joey's insane melodic sensibilities and Lovering's power house percussion, Kim will be missed.

I LOVE the Pixies, not only for the amazing music they have made since 1986 (or even earlier!), but they have always had a kind of fiery mystery to their stuff. Well-balanced, adventurous, meaningful, terrifying, confusing...I love it all. Folks are absolutely entitled to opinions about whatever, so in my opinion, Pixies are my favorite band of all time. Pixies trump Led Zeppelin, Black Flag, Los Saicos, Slayer, SWANS, The Temptations, Public Enemy, even my beloved Fugazi.... I listen daily to all new Pixies material, because we have been waiting for this since 1993 and gosh darn it, the new stuff is pretty great. Thanks for reading my book!! Peace to all...

Frank Black is a genius!

Glad she stuck around? yeah, so are we. Like it or not, Pixies withouth Kim becomes too serius. She was the smile of the band, and she has a good smile,(and voice)

Poor Joe, his eyes were twinkling like he was going to cry when he was talking about Kim leaving.

thanks for this, i had absolutely no idea about this and i am a huuuuuge fan!

Frank Black changed rock music, and Kim Deal helped. I like Kim and like the Breeders, but really without a doubt Frank Black is the main force in the Pixies. I would say Joey Santiago sound is very important as well, and I will miss Kim's vocals. But, she left....time to march forward.

I literally get choked up thinking about the departure of Kim Deal.

The latest Pixies really cannot be compared to the latest Breeders. I loved them both 25 years ago. But today? One band has lost its soul and makes empty, meaningless music. The other just dropped a flawless album.

I can see why Kim left.

Step 1: Click on 7:25 Step 2: Repeat step 1 forever Step 3: Profit

Great interview 😊😊👌

I got to see the Pixies at the Kiva Auditorium in Albuquerque a couple weeks ago. The Pixies still have their mojo!!! Even without Kim. The first couple of times I listened to the new stuff - I was thinking this wasn't the Pixies at all. They are a live band by nature and seeing how it fit into the show - I realized this is still the Pixies! Black Francis is still the king of Alternative music.

look at joey's eyes when "frank" starts talking about kim's "departure". hilarious.

I love Pixies and have bought their music, which means I REALLY like them. I won't be buying any of this, it just isn't my cup of tea. I can think of LOTS of other stuff I would only give one star to, it isn't THAT bad. I was really bummed that Kim had to move on, but it was awesome they reunited in the first place. Hopefully now they are all better off financially. I am glad they are coming up with new music, and hope they do more.

Huge fan of the Pixies, and I enjoyed the latest release, but without Kim Deal, it just doesn't feel like a Pixies record. One of the greatest groups ever, but like another incredibly influential band, I think that instead of getting back together, they should have just Let It Be.

The Breeders have a certified platinum record to their credit.Kim actually wrote songs that made the top 40 in rock and were critically acclaimed.All things Charles' solo career failed to achieve.If Charles hadn't had such a fragile ego and let Kim do more songs than she was allowed to the Pixies may've actually gotten the commercial acclaim they deserved in the states,more so than Nirvana.Gigantic as one of the worst songs?That's your opinion lone,because that's one of their most beloved songs

i have to admit i felt the same way when i heard kim left the band. i had no interest in hearing the new material. but when i did (toe in the ocean, and indie cindy, specifically) i was blown away and excited to hear what they would come up with next. it's obvious that franks song writing, and the musicianship of the band (regardless of whos on bass or doing back up vocals) is still solid and impressive music, and i'm glad that they are back at it.

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The whole interview, I was waiting for the question "Why didn't you just ask Kelley? No one would have ever noted that Kim is gone."

Shame kim had to leave but nice to hear the pixies again .they plaid my hometown and icouldnt believe it so i missed them my broyhers family too and they are real big pixies fans .🏀

when did kyle gass take over the Pixies?

That new album deserves two stars out of five for me, and it's just me. If you guys *love* doing that music then do so, but I'm not a fan of this album as much as I love the older albums with Kim Deal onboard, you might mistakenly not care but she owns a huge part of the Pixies sound.

Frank Black (call him what you want, I prefer Frank Black) is one of the most sublimely hilarious individuals ever. He's really funny in this interview and the swipe after swipe he takes at pitchfork are just hilarious. And then the beatific pose at the end... Oh, I love this guy.

i didnt know Frank Black was The Dude

frank black = hank from breaking bad + will sasso

Big parts of the Pixies' unique yet diverse sound: Joey's effects driven guitar. The contrasting vocal harmony of Charles and Kim. We've all heard what Charles sounds like without Kim or Joey. We've heard what Kim sounds like without Joey or Charles. Varying degrees of 'good' between them, but never anything nearly as powerful, or as captivating, or as infectiously charming as the music they made together. Take one out of the equation, and it's simply not the same.

Now he's "Charles Thompson?" _cripes..._

Kim's songs should have been on their albums more, look how great Gigantic is, look at The Breeders numbers of albums and they're great. Both are great song writers in their own way. 4 of them what makes Pixies, none can be replaced. In my opinion. It's sad for me. Pixies have this The Beatles thing, which is 2 great song-writers in a band, honestly I can't think of any band that have the same thing too. Again, in my opinion. Ps: this might offend people, personally Pixies is equal to The Beatles musically. Should i say Pixies is the freak beatles.

Who cares what critics say ...your public adores you!!! Welcome back!!!

It's so hard interpret what's going on between Charles and Kim... I did hear that the guys picked songs from Charles's catalogue without any input and that she didn't want to show up to the rehearsals for the sessions. Who knows? They've left an open invitation for her to come back. Joey seems the most bummed about it...

Between the Pixies original split, and them re-forming with Kim Deal, many years passed. During that time Charles Thompson released many albums as Frank Black. For them to release music, which flows seamlessly from their last album, well, it would be bizarre. Too much water has flowed. I like some of their new stuff, and it sounds like Pixies to me. I'll wait for it to sink in, and I certainly dont think their new music is 1 out of 10... But hey, its everyone's freedom to have an opinion eh....

I loved Indie Cindy.

Good news. The new EP 2 got a 2.0 on Pitchfork! Improvement.

Pitchfork gave the Pixies first two albums, Surfer Rosa and Doolittle, a perfect score of 10/10, while their third and forth records, Bossanova and Trompe le Monde, received high scores of a 9.1 (for Bossanova), and a 9.4 (for Trompe le Monde). However after their reunion after their long breakup, with exception to Kim Deal who did not rejoin the band, the Pixies current albums and EPs have received mixed to negative reviews.

Joey is so funny in his own subtle way.

@7:14 loved that part

Love the Pixies but Kim Deal is better off without them. None of Frank's newer stuff clicked with me, but I loved the Breeders and Kim's solo stuff. The Breeders seem like one of the few reunions to actually work out. They still have the energy and the drive.

So... does the sound go out at 7:21 for anyone else? I wanted to hear the retort.

Not read all of the comments but no one seems to mention Ding Archer who did play the bass.

beloved songs WORLDWIDE* Kim IS the most loved member of the Pixies WORLDWIDE and she's the only one with onstage charisma. Considering ALL of what I just stated (which are facts, not opinions) she IS like the Paul McCartney of the group. She's always written the most commercially palatable songs, and poppier songs (from Gigantic to the Breeders Last Splash EP), some of the big names they influenced said they wished Kim had written more with the Pixies. And she drew the most visual attention.

Pitchfork have shown time and time again that they have no concept of what great music looks like or dare I say it sound like. The 8 songs released thus far are so much better than I could ever have hoped for, this is where the Pixies would have been had they not split, without having to listen to all the dodgy albums they would have released as they experiment with their sound (see Blur and Radiohead)

The pixies man ❤️❤️

The Pitchfork review was written purely for this reaction.

That's sad about Kim Deal..not only is she a influence but she kicks ass..her footprint is legendary in that frequency & integral to their sound..Pixes rule but it's like VH w/o MA..a hard pill to swallow..

woah, black francis is [gigantic]

Rip kim. Chasing the song.."into the white" i later got into franks voice aswell. Because it was her song that made me chase b sides. Rest in Peace kim Deal! Thankyou for your awesomeness. Vomit in my Mouth.

If there’s ever a Pixies film, Vince Vahn will play Santiago

New stuff is great. They still got it.

Listen to the David Bazan song about Pitchfork

I will reserve judgement on the new material until I give it a fair listen...

I guess they're paid at Pitchfork... Beautiful, Frank, just beautiful.

guys, relax kim deal is gonna come back in the full LP later on

Charles /Frank doesn't sound too broken up about Kim's departure.

"it was very FRANK.!" ha.

Linda bean Pardee can also be sen on KZfaq I just looked her up on KZfaq,she would have been the best Kim deal fill in , Boston's best female bassist rock is in her blood check her out, she a home run for any band looking for success!

They're traumatized by Kim's departure ..

Nice to have Dave on stand by

Once again Charles T, Black Francis Frank Black has written yet another batch of beautiful songs, be it called Pixies, or FB does not matter. Head Carrier is a great record as was Indie City..so pffffght to the naysayer's..Long may the fountain of music flow from the spring of Charles and Co. obvious songwriting talents

when two people come to a point to where they really get unnerved by the other individual...they need to get away from that person....point is this in the last 3 or four years Kim and Frankie and the Pixies have been on and off the road more then they had done in twenty or more years ans im surprised by what i know that they were able to coexist this long

I'm going to miss Kim not being in the Pixies. She was the heart of the band.

Frank looks thinner than usual. Good for him. He looks great.

Indie Cindy is a Great album! Pitchfork sucks for rating it so low!

I imagine being such an exceptionally reasonable person in a mostly unreasonable world gets immensely tiring after a while.

Charles you are full of it. Listen to what FZ said about the music critics and don't try to play like you are so cool.

problem is the first 4 albums were such monumental masterpieces that everything that came after could never be on the same level even if decent, same with frank blacks solo albums

I've always known that there is a line between insanity and genius. All four of the members I have realized, straddled that line. Mental illness has it's perks.

No Kim Deal is like no Andy Rourke or no Mani or no Peter Hook or no Getty Lee or no John Paul Jones or no Mike Mills etc.

when they have it, they have to break it up because of ego. And when the magic's lost they do a comeback.

so, this is how it all played out. all this time later

Not by America's 80's and 90's mainstream standards no - which by the way were at their lowest until the new millennium, where they dived even deeper. Same America that didn't want to put Michael Jackson on the rolling stones or play Billie Jean on MTV, gave Paula Abdul's "Straight up" the best choreography award over "Smooth Criminal" and called Nirvana the best thing since the Beatles, and compared Ok Computer Radiohead to Pink Floyd. Pixies were HUGE in the UK and South America.

is this frank or hank?

Theres Frank Black, and then there's Interviewer Yellow. Good lord, fire your makeup artist.

7:08 talking to frank says yin and yang then looks at joey back to frank....

I can only watch Charle's third leg

The Grammys are all about who sold the most, who is known about the most, and who did the most behind the scenes wining and dining.

He means you know

I was that dweeb kid at one time. I remember my flaws, I know his. Your risible comment discounts experience, wisdom. Writing a youtube comment is not my career - I don't have to spend hours dredging up 'wit'. His critique can't be 'true', by definition, therefore you can't be very bright.

I love how Frank is bashing pitchfork by intentionally pretending to not know what the hell it is,. Lmao! "I assume they are paid, I don't know."

1) I do not believe that Frank Black ever had anything 'to say'. 2) Pixies early stuff wasn't the best. 3) They were largely ignored early doors in America anyway. 4) They were played out after Albini according to the hipsters of yesteryear. 5) Later, as above but insert Doolittle in place of Albini. 6) It's one EP, more to come. 7) you have no 'facts', just opinion mired in critical tropes. I am quite enjoying their new stuff, not comparing it to any previous work. Look forward to more.

Last, Joey isn't exactly the most articulate or eloquent of the Pixies and has been Charles' silent yes-man since their early years, he's not much for confrontation, especially in interviews. Notice how quiet David was in that interview, and he was the only one that knew Kim prior to joining the band? He didn't say the backing vocals is the ONLY thing that'll be missed, he was asked what HE THINKS will be missed with Kim's absence, and he squirmed out a very half-hearted answer.

really pitchfork....I think the pixies deserve a 8 or a 9..

Charles looks like Frank Schrader from breaking bad

I LOVE LOVE LOVE thePixies....Frank Black could not suck anymore in rep'ing the band.

All the pixies when bald this makes me happy

All three of Joey, Charles and Kim are essential. Kim, as successful as the breeders were(which makes sense since she was sort of the Paul McCartney of the group with poppier music sensibilities than Charles who was more folksy/raw punk odd combination), never did anything close to the brilliant innovation she was part of with Charles and Joey. Same with Joey and Charles without Kim. Kim was the more socially charming of the bunch though.

ok interview til that last question. wtf? Journalists have a vivid imagination.

No Deal, no Pixies.

Some people speak really slowly, some people communicate really slowly.

Linda bean Pardee, laughs as she plays, just like Kim deal,she drinks beer just like Kim deal, she plays the bass every week in the small clubs in boston, she sais I know I look like cousin it!as she laughs, she's having a ball! Imagine havn cousin it her ways are just like Kim deal! Find her on Facebook or her band , Ad frank and the fast easy women!

Why bother asking? Kim left to pursue touring with the Breeders, and Kelley's part of the Breeders. :p