Pitchfork: Pixies Expand World Tour, Set Street Date for DVD and "Best Of" Comp; Strokes Collaboration Possible

Pixies Expand World Tour, Set Street Date for DVD and "Best Of" Comp; Strokes Collaboration Possible
Requests for "Kicked in the Taco" to be roundly ignored

In the recent tradition of keeping our headlines flooded with Pixies updates, we bring you more of the latest news concerning our reunited foursome. The band has expanded their reunion to include an expansive 35 dates, up from their originally scheduled 11-date itinerary, spanning months beyond the initial finale, Coachella. Venues across the globe have sold out in less then five minutes, most recently Freeborn Hall at the University of California, Davis, which has the capacity to hold 1,775 warm bodies. The Prarieland, a venue in snowy Saskatoon, Canada, recently doubled the capacity and still maxed-out with fans. And in the era of ticket purchases via the Internet, the audience will most likely consist of Pixies fans with high-speed DSL connections or those desperate enough to purchase their tickets for $100+ through eBay (this slow-computer toting newswriter belonging to the latter demographic). Here's the full list of dates, as it currently stands:

04-13 Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line Music Cafe
04-14 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Burton Cummings Theatre
04-15 Regina, Saskatchewan - Doris Knight Ballroom
04-17 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Prairieland
04-18 Edmonton, Alberta - Red's
04-19 Calgary, Alberta - MacEwan Hall
04-21 Victoria, British Columbia - Victoria Curling Club
04-22 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom
04-23 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom
04-24 Spokane, WA - Big Easy
04-25 Boise, Idaho - Big Easy
04-27 Eugene, OR - MacDonald Theatre
04-29 Davis, CA - Freeborn Hall
05-01 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival)
05-28 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
05-29 Madrid, Spain - Festimad
05-30 Langraff, Netherlands - Pinkpop Festival
06-02 London, England - Brixton Academy
06-03 London, England - Brixton Academy
06-04 London, England - Brixton Academy
06-05 London, England - Brixton Academy
06-07 Paris, France - Le Zenith
06-10 Vienna, Austria - Aerodrome Festival
06-11 Lisbon, Portugal - Parque Tejo
06-12 Dublin, Ireland - Phoenix Park (w/Red Hot Chili Peppers)
06-14 Paris, France - Le Zenith
06-15 Paris, France - Parc des Princes (w/Red Hot Chili Peppers)

The exact date of these following four shows haven't been confirmed, but pixiesmusic.com confirms the band's participation in these events:

06-18/20 Hultsfred, Sweden - Hultsfred Festival
06-26/28 Scheessel, Germany - Hurricane Festival
06-26/28 Neuhausen Ob Eck, Germany - Southside Festival
07-01/04 Rosklide, Denmark - Roskilde festival

07-02 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter
07-03 Belfort, France - Les Eurockeennes Festival
07-08 Kristiansand, Norway - Quart Festival
07-10 Kinross, Scotland - T In The Park Festival (w/David Bowie, The Darkness)
07-11 Glasgow, Scotland - T in the Park

4AD also recently announced the release date for their highly anticipated Pixies DVD. Scheduled for a May 3rd release, the disc shares a concurrent release date with Waves of Mutilation, the premiere stand-alone Pixies "best of" compilation (the out-of-print 1997 release Death to the Pixies featured a bonus live disc). The DVD contains never-before-seen live footage of fifteen songs, as well as seven music videos. Additionally, two brief documentaries will appear here: On the Road contains footage of the Pixies on tour, while the exclusive Gouge is said to contain some more concrete answers on the band's sudden breakup in the 1990s and resurrection today. Tracklist:

Live Material
The Holiday Song
Nimrod's Son
Bone Machine
Levitate Me
Ed Is Dead
Where Is My Mind
Caribou
Something Against You
Hey
Gigantic
I've Been Tired
Vamos
In Heaven
Tony's Theme
Wild Honey Pie

Videos
Monkey Gone to Heaven
Here Comes Your Man
Velouria
Dig for Fire/Allison
Alec Eiffel
Head On
Debaser

Documentaries
On the Road
Gouge

Along with the tour, DVD, best of compilation and endless excitement, The Strokes' Albert Hammond, Jr recently announced the two bands' intentions for a possible collaboration on BBC Radio 1. Says Al: "We're lucky enough to be playing with The Pixies, which is a dream come true, really, and who knows? Maybe something happens with the band. But you know, it's more fun to be spontaneous with that. Maybe it happens like a surprise and not anything that's said before, you know?" Right. Maybe you could get Nigel Godrich to produce it.