The Pixies

From the future of the band to music critics, the Pixies' Joey Santiago opens up about it all in this exclusive interview.

The stars of the Pixies' new video for 'Ring the Bell' should look a little familiar to die-hards.

You don't need an itinerary to keep up with Arcade Fire's Reflektor tour -- you can figure out where the band is just by noting which cover song they played the night before.

Pixies members Joey Santiago and David Lovering said original bassist Kim Deal is welcome to return, although it might be awkward if she does.

The Pixies have always been about duality – twisting off-kilter jangle into sinister garage pop that granted them the inescapable loud/quiet/loud synonymy – so it’s hard to imagine the events of the past year falling anything but in line with their well-honed and divergent organized chaos.

At the time of its release, ‘Surfer Rosa’ was no big deal.

Over the last eight months, Pixies have kept fans guessing, but one hallmark of their return to making and releasing new music has been a commitment to stirring visuals. The group kicked things off with 'Bag Boy,' notable for its violent young protagonist and inspired use of Fruit Loops, and now comes a similarly unsettling clip for 'Magdalena,' a song from their 'EP2' collection.

The multimedia streak continues for Pixies, who have released a video for 'Another Toe In the Ocean.' The resurgent alt-rock greats have now commissioned visual accompaniments for all four songs on their recent 'EP-1' collection, though this latest clip shares little in common with the three that came before.

For some fans, Pixies simply aren't Pixies without founding bassist Kim Deal, who left earlier this year during sessions for the handful of new tunes the group has dropped since June. Deal was a key member, for certain, but it's arguably even harder to imagine the alt-rock godheads continuing without lead guitarist Joey Santiago.

Nearly three weeks before replacements Pixies bassist Kim Shattuck takes to Twitter to announce her dismissal, the band is in Copenhagen, and singer Black Francis is feeling uneasy.