PIXIES on July 22 in Saint-Petersburg

Concert Agency "Light music" proudly presents one of the most influential bands of the twentieth century, veterans of the American indie scene and the PIXIES.

In the second half of the 1980s, the Pixies popularized alternative rock, skillfully hiding under the guitar noise and shouting of frontman Charles Thompson (aka Frank black and black Francis) is a tenacious, unexpected and bold pop songs about everything.

Kurt Cobain honestly admitted that, hand in writing the future hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit", only tried to write the perfect pop song in the spirit of the Pixies. The group made a Declaration of love Thom Yorke, PJ Harvey and Bono. Pixies songs heard in the films of David Fincher ("Fight club"), Kevin Smith ("Zack and Miri make a porno") and M. night Shyamalan ("Unbreakable"). Their compositions were performed by Beck, Placebo, TV on the Radio and David Bowie for the cover versions, the former very fussy.

The seventh album of the rock band the Pixies titled "Beneath the Eyrie" was released on 13 September 2019 and again, the Pixies came close to its former heights. It includes 12 tracks, including released this summer of the song "Catfish Kate and On Graveyard Hill". The release was the second for the current composition of the group, which currently consists of black Francis (guitar, vocals), Joey Santiago (guitar), David Lovering (drums) and Paz Lenchantin (bass guitar), their last joint album "Head Carrier", was released in 2016. The producer of the album made That Dalgety. The material for it was recorded in the year 2018, the Studio Dreamland in one of the churches of upstate new York. The musicians strongly influenced by buildings in the Gothic style around them during the recording – lead singer black Francis called them "mystical and surreal landscape," and the name, which translates as "Under the nest of a bird of prey" has nothing to do with "Game of thrones" — just musicians actually found the nest of a bald eagle on the roof of the Dreamland Studio, where he recorded the album.