Alternative rock innovators Pixies have returned with a new single “Dregs of Wine,” another new single from their upcoming new album Doggerel, due out on September 30th, 2022, via BMG. The track is the next single following the recent single and video “Vault of Heaven!” The band has been playing a series of acclaimed show of late, and have booked a long string of world tour dates, including a brief run of shows in the USA. Check out the new single, a first writing credit for guitarist Joey Santiago, and pre-order the album at the links below.
Black says the song is about “Living in Los Angeles in the ‘90s with my then-wife, hanging out with Joey and his ex-wife, lots of trips to Las Vegas, a lot of drinking, little bit drug taking, some genuine good times.”
Flash forward to the present day. Joey was jamming at home on his guitar, and the initial idea behind the song may well have been lost to the moment. He recalls, “I guess I was in kind of a zombie state, just playing. After I stopped playing, I put it down and went, ‘Well, that was a fucking waste of time, what a piece of shit I am.’ I beat myself up a lot, but my girlfriend, unbeknownst to me, was recording me. She played it back to me, and I go, ‘Fuck! Hold on a second here! This stuff is good!’”
Said Derenne about the video, “When I first listened to the track, the idea that came to my mind was modern western rock sonorities. It would have been too obvious to shoot a western, so we decided to use the irony of the lyrics and create some sort of psychedelic, outsider story using American icons but showing them in a different way. Zorro leads the dance as the protagonist of the story.”
Doggerel is available to pre-order here. The band’s official store offers a range of limited-edition music and merch as well as two exclusive Doggerel formats: an orange vinyl and a red cassette.
Pixies’ huge world tour rolls on through to the close of the year, taking in Europe, North America, South America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. The final shows of their summer tour comes when they headline the End of the Road festival on September 3. Please see their website for a full list of all international dates.
This October, Pixies will take a short break from their international touring to kick off a special, four-date U.S. run of intimate-venue-concerts. As is the Pixies’ “standard,” the band will draw from their extensive catalogue to perform a different set every night, with each song determined just before its first note is played. Attendees can expect the band to perform not only some of the most beloved Pixies songs, but also, for the first time in America, new tracks from Doggerel. Dates are below, and tickets can be purchased HERE.
Pixies October US Tour Dates:
1 SOMA, San Diego, CA
2 House of Blues, Anaheim, CA
3 The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA
5 Terminal 5, New York, NY