Pixies’ Frank Black has shared details of a new North American tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of his sophomore solo album ‘Teenager Of The Year’. Find ticket details below.
Taking place across the beginning of next year, the tour is comprised of 12 shows across North America and will see Black joined on stage by numerous musicians who worked with him on the LP. These include Eric Drew Feldman, Lyle Workman, and Nick Vincent, who will join him to perform the tracklist in full.
It kicks off with two shows at The Fillmore venue in San Francisco, scheduled for January 15 and 16. From there, stops in Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Minneapolis and more are planned throughout the remainder of the month.
The US leg wraps up with a final night at the Brooklyn Steel venue in New York, after which Black will head across the pond for two international dates. These are a show at Trianon in Paris, and a date at The Palladium in London on February 4 and 6 respectively.
A Live Nation presale is set for tomorrow (Thursday, July 18) and will go live at 10am with the code STRUM. The general on-sale will take place the following day (July 19) at the same time. Visit here to get tickets and find a full list of dates below.
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Frank Black’s ‘Teenager of the Year’ 2025 tour dates are:
JANUARY
15 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
16 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
18 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Orpheum
19 – El Cajon, CA @ The Magnolia
22 – Denver, CO @ The Paramount
24 – Minneapolis, MN @ TBA
25 – Chicago, IL @ The Metro
26 – Chicago, IL @ The Metro
28 – Detroit, MI @ St Andrews Hall
29 – Toronto, ON @ History
31 – Boston, MA @ Citizens House Of Blues
FEBRUARY
1 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
4 – Paris, France @ Trianon
6 – London, UK @ The Palladium
As well as the forthcoming tour dates, Black will also be reissuing the album to mark the 30 year milestone. Arriving via 4AD, the new edition of the seminal LP is set to arrive in early 2025 too, although an official release date hasn’t been shared as of yet.
Discussing the plans to celebrate the release, Black shared a lengthy statement, in which he spoke about the inspiration behind the project, as well as how the anniversary plans arose (via Consequence).
“Sometime in the early ‘80s, I’d have to look up the date, I matriculated high school. This school held an awards banquet for some of the departing students at the school. I received an award called the TEENAGER OF THE YEAR award; my brother received the same award the following year. Our award was a 50 dollar credit for textbooks, a TEENAGER OF THE YEAR medallion (my mother still has this), and also the banquet hall dinner, soup to nuts,” he wrote.
“My brother and I had no complaint about the award (it was given for being all-around-good-guy as best as we could determine). But for such a grand title to be given as TEENAGER OF THE YEAR, I felt the glory had not been amplified enough. In 1993, I was doing ‘solo recording’ sessions with Eric Drew Feldman in Los Angeles. We had settled on a core band with Nick Vincent and Lyle Workman, occasionally augmented by Joey Santiago and Moris Tepper. Though we had to change studios numerous times for actual forest fires and earthquakes, the whole process was such an addictive musical buffet that Eric and I couldn’t stop.”
He continued: “We did some vocals at a studio rumoured to be owned by Sergio Mendes; in the control room was a wall of television screens broadcasting the brush fire which crept toward us. We eventually evacuated to someplace else. We never met Sergio but we saw him perform a few weeks later when we vacated to Las Vegas after the Northridge earthquake, which had trapped the TEENAGER OF THE YEAR tapes in a studio vault for some time.
“Our zeal plus empathy from our financiers, they safely observed our travels from London, was enough to keep the money flowing until Eric and I relented and declared ‘Consummatum est.’ We tried to make it grand. 22 in 62. I called it ‘TEENAGER OF THE YEAR’. It is 30 years old now, and the original band will perform the record at various venues in early 2025. 4AD has remastered the LP for a fresh printing. Enjoy.”
The announcements from Black come just weeks after it was confirmed that he and his Pixies bandmates had shared two new singles, ‘You’re So Impatient’ and ‘Que Sera, Sera’.
They marked the band’s first new music in two years and saw Pixies create “a macabre and cinematic picture of American pop culture”. The raging ‘You’re So Impatient’ has been described as “an explosive two-minute, nine-second Zombie attack at the mall.”
2024 marks 35 years since the band’s second album ‘Doolittle’ entered the UK Top 10 and 20 since they reformed.
The band have recently kicked off their North American tour with Modest Mouse and Cat Power and are set to return to the UK in August for a string of headlining dates as well as various festival performances including London’s All Points East and Victorious Festival.
Pixies will also be heading down under with Pearl Jam later this autumn for a string of show dates in New Zealand and Australia. Visit here to purchase tickets for their US tour and here for their UK tour.
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