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The road rolls on for veteran rock group, The Pixies. The Boston based quartet has announced that it has added a new North American leg to its current worldwide tour. The thirty-three date tour will kick off on January 15th in Toronto, Ontario Canada. From there, the band will hit a number of dates in the Northeast before heading south to finish off the month of January. It will close out January with a performance at the famed Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC) in Durham, North Carolina on January 31st. It will kick off the month of February by heading west to the mountains of North Carolina and a performance in Asheville, NC on February 1st. That performance will be at Asheville’s Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. Cults will provide support for both performances.
The remainder of February will see the Pixies perform at dates in the Midwest, West Coast, and Southwest. It all wraps up on March 1st with a performance at the Austin Music Hall in Austin, TX. Tickets for this and other shows are available online at http://www.pixiesmusic.com.
Along with the upcoming U.S. tour, Pixies fans have a new video from the band to check out, too. The band has debuted the video for ‘Andro Queen’, the opening track from the band’s new EP, EP-1. The video was created and directed by filmmaker Ondi Timoner through her Interloper Films production company. Timoner’s resume is quite extensive. She has won the Grand Jury prize for documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival twice and has work permanently displayed at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. She was also the creative force behind VH-1’s series, Sound Effects. These aren’t her only credentials. She also crafted the opening film for President Clinton’s 2011 birthday/fundraiser at the Hollywood Bowl. That even featured celebrities such as: Steven Spielberg, Barbara Streisand, Jay-Z, and President Clinton himself. She even has her hands in the online world. She is the founder and director of the web-channel, “A Total Disruption.” This channel features the works of other ingenious individuals and business people that use technology to transform lives, the economy, and the path of mankind.
More information on the band’s upcoming U.S. tour and its new EP, EP-1, is available online at http://www.pixiesmusic.com, http://www.facebook.com/pixiesofficial, http://www.myspace.com/pixies, and http://twitter.com/pixies. To keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews, go online to http://www.facebook.com/philspicks and “Like” it. Fans can always keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews in the Phil’s Picks blog at https://philspicks.wordpress.com.
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