"No chops" demanded the Musicians Wanted ad seeking a female bassist with vocals. It also mentioned an odd combination of preferred influences: folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary and punk rockers Hüsker Dü.

He's also a fan of The Beatles.

If you were to ask what Joey Santiago and the Pixies were like a generation ago, you’d be met with an array of different answers. According to a 1991 account from The Times, the band descended upon ...

The Pixies’ “Wave of Mutilation” is a song with a strange, mysterious, and downright Murakami-esque history. Released for the first time in 1989, the song describes a phenomenon that was neither ...

Nearly three decades ago, the Pixies burst onto the alternative rock scene with music that would change the course of indie rock for years to come. Frontman Black Francis, guitarist Joey Santiago, ...

Pixies continue their 40th anniversary celebrations with a reissue of Complete B-Sides: 1988-97, out today. Remastered 25 years after its initial release ...

The Pixies' second act continues with the band ready to unleash their seventh studio album, Beneath the Eyrie, this fall. The 12-song collection will be their third studio album since reuniting, and ...

Musician Joey Santiago, best known for being the Pixies' guitarist, turned 61 on June 10, as reported by Songfacts. In a May 2026 interview with The Times, the guitarist discussed being a founding ...

Do people deep-dive into song lyrics anymore? I’d like to think college students still stay up much too late in their dorms dissecting what a singer meant with a particular turn of phrase. And I hope ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Joey Santiago, lead guitarist of the Pixies, is in LA and—predictably—stuck in ...

Whether you call it fate or luck, the story of the Pixies is coated in a thick veneer of fairy dust. The Boston-bred band was an enigma from its inception. It formed after guitarist Joey Santiago read ...