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The 90s rock was not only dominated by heavy metal or grunge, but it was also a blooming decade for indie rock. The grunge and Britpop movement of that decade was the result of indie rock artists who experimented with their sounds. Among the contributors to the popularity of indie rock are Pixies and Modest Mouse. Both excelled in their rock approaches. They were the masters of alternative rock during their heyday, which influenced the current alt/indie rock sound.

The "loud-quiet-loud" melodies and singing are signatures of Pixies. This way of performing their songs is a dynamic approach to rock music, deviating from the one-note and constantly high volume characterized by the genre. Their style did not end there, as they are known for incorporating male-female harmonies and for pushing forward highly expressive lyrics. With this solid style, it did not matter that they barely had support in releasing music. They dominated the charts and became one of the bands that popularized alternative rock.

In their career, which spans three decades, they came out with eight albums. Their early albums "Surfer Rosa" (1988) and "Doolittle" (1989) warmed up the scene for the alternative rock movement of the 90s. "Trompe le Monde" (1994) was their contribution to the movement. Due to a lack of mainstream support, Pixies broke up in the middle of the 90s and only came back in 2014. Nonetheless, they had made a mark, influencing the biggest acts of the genre, such as Nirvana, which used their "loud-quiet-loud" formula. When they came back twenty years later, they were celebrated by the scene. An icon was finally taking back their seat in the alternative rock pantheon. They released "Indie Cindy," which brought them success. This album led to other album releases, with "Doggerel" being their newest. Currently, the members include Black Francis, Joey Santiago, David Lovering, and Paz Lenchantin.

On the other hand, Modest Mouse benefited from the doors opened by bands like Pixies. They, themselves, shaped alternative rock. They use punk rock to create raw melodies that make a certain carefree feel. They built themselves into the 90s and emerged in the 2000s.

Their best years started with "The Moon & Antarctica" (2000). This success was followed by remarkable albums, "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" and their top charting "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" (2007).

The two alternative rock powerhouses will be co-headlining a North American tour. They will bring their angst at the Fiddlers Green Amphitheatre on June 30. Opening for them is an alt-rock legend, herself Cat Power. Buy tickets now!

Pixies and Modest Mouse announce joint 2024 US tour with Cat Power

The 23-date tour is set to kick off in May

Pixies and Modest Mouse have announced their joint 2024 US tour with Cat Power which is set to kick off later this year.

• READ MORE:  Pixies – ‘Doggerel’ review: still the alt-rock gold standard

The co-headlining tour will see Power provide opening support and is set to kick off on Friday, May 31 at the Firefly Distillery in Charleston, South Carolina. From there, the are set to make stops in major cities such as Nashville, Atlanta, Pittsburg, Toronto, Philadelphia, Queens, Mansfield, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Austin, Irving and more.

The tour will wrap up on Sunday, June 30 at Fiddler’s Green in Denver, Colorado. The 2024 dates follow the successful sold-out 2023 run featuring all three acts, which concluded in San Diego last September. The 2023 tour included an epic Hollywood Bowl performance in Los Angeles and multiple nights at Pier 17 in New York.

A ticket pre-sale will be available for fans who are Citi cardholders. They will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, January 23 at 10am local time until Thursday, January 25 at 10am local time through the Citi Entertainment program . General ticket sale will commence on  Friday, January 26 at 10am local time. Visit here for tickets and check out the full list of dates below.

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Pixies and Modest Mouse 2024 US co-headlining tour with Cat Power dates are: 

MAY 31 – Charleston, SC – Firefly Distillery

JUNE 1 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion 2 – Nashville, TN – Ascend Amphitheater 4 – Atlanta, GA – Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park 5 – Cincinnati, OH – The Andrew J Brady Music Center 7 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE *^ 8 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage 9 – Laval, QC – Place Bell 11 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion 12 – Philadelphia, PA – TD Pavilion at The Mann 14 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion 15 – Queens, NY – Forest Hills Stadium 16 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center 18 – Sterling Heights, MI – Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill 19 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island 20 – Minneapolis, MN – Surly Brewing Company * 22 – Madison, WI – Breese Stevens Field 23 – Waukee, IA – Vibrant Music Hall 24 – Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre 26 – Austin, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater 27 – Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory 28 – Rogers, AR – Walmart AMP 30 – Denver, CO – Fiddler’s Green *

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In other news, Pixies frontman  Frank Black recently teamed up with The Dandy Warhols on their new single ‘Dancing With Myself’.

“I was just checking in with him, and he happened to be in Zürich. I hooked him and some of his family up with some very interesting museum tours first, then I asked him if he would play on our record,” said The Dandy Warhols’ frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor.

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Here comes your men.

This summer, your favorite 80’s indie-rockers are teaming up with your favorite 90’s indie-rockers for a co-headlining tour, featuring your favorite 90’s singer-songwriter in supporting-role status for good measure.

Issac Brock’s Modest Mouse appears to have officially taken on legacy-act status this year, as they prepare to hit the road with Frank Black’s Pixies on a string of dates across the U.S. in August and September, supported by Cat Power across all 19 shows, including a stop at the Stone Pony Summerstage in Asbury Park on Aug. 20, and two consecutive nights at Pier 17 in NYC on Aug. 21 and Aug. 22 .

Following their NYC run, the co-headliners have shows at Cooperstown, NY’s Ommegang Brewery on Aug. 25 and Lewiston, NY’s Artpark Outdoor Amphitheater on Aug. 28.

Prices are reasonable across the board, especially considering you’re getting three of the most influential indie acts of the last 40 years on one bill.

At the time of publication, audience members can expect tickets below $100 before fees on Vivid Seats for the tour’s Stone Pony show, and under $85 for the New York dates .

Whether you plan on joining Pixies, Modest Mouse, and Cat Power on the East Coast, or on one of their dates in the Lonesome, Crowded West, you can look to Vivid Seats to find the lowest prices.

Think these bands are The Greatest? Float on down to our guide below, featuring everything you need to know about Pixies and Modest Mouse’s tour this summer.

All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.

Pixies and Modest Mouse with Cat Power 2023 Tour Schedule

Want to see Pixies on their own? You can find tickets for all their solo headlining gigs here.

Prefer just Modest Mouse? Click here for a complete list of all their 2023 concerts .

(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout .)

Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand. 

They offer a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and your tickets will be delivered prior to the event.

Other indie-rockers on tour in 2023

Can’t get enough alternative rock? Worried you might Fire it Up at the Pixies/Modest Mouse/Cat Power show and not be able to fire it down?

Check out five of our favorite indie rockers on tour this summer, from classic acts to newer favorites.

•  Death Cab For Cutie with the Postal Service

•  Weezer with Modest Mouse, Spoon, Future Islands and more

•  Beck with Phoenix

•  The Cure

•  The Smile

Plus,  LCD Soundsystem, boygenius and Steve Lacy  are conducting a nationwide festival tour that you may want to keep an eye on as well.

Who else is bringing the hits to venues all over North America this year? Check out our list of the 52 biggest concert tours in 2023 here .

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Published: 2024/01/22

Pixies and Modest Mouse Reunite for 2024 Tour with Special Guest Cat Power

This year, three of the biggest names in indie rock will come together as the Pixies and Modest Mouse announce a month-long North American tour with Cat Power. Following a successful 20-show series at the end of last summer, the new tour begins on May 31 and continues through the end of June for a total of 23 new dates. This run from the titans of alternative will bring their music to some areas missed by the original tour, notably including seven shows in the South and seven new venues in the Midwest.

The 2024 run will start in Charleston, S.C., with a performance at Firefly Distillery on May 3 commencing the trio’s first Southeast series. In the region, the tour will pass through PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, N.C on June 1, Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville, Tenn., on June 2 and Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park in Atlanta–Cat Power’s hometown–on June 4. Next, the bands trek north to Cincinnati to play The Andrew J Brady Music Center on June 5, followed by gigs at Toronto, Ontario’s Budweiser Stage and Laval, Quebec’s Place Bell on June 8 and 9. The tour returns to the states on June 11 with a show at Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford, N.H., preceding engagements at Philadelphia’s TD Pavilion at the Mann on June 12 and the iconic Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., on June 14.

The tour hits the Big Apple on June 5 by way of Queens, N.Y.’s Forest Hills Stadium. Next, the groups progress to Xfinity Center in Mansfield, Mass. on June 16 before a Midwest run of Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill in Sterling Heights, Mich., Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island in Chicago, Surly Brewing Company in Minneapolis, Breese Stevens Field in Madison, Wis., Vibrant Music Hall in Waukee, Iowa and Starlight Theatre in Kansas City on June 18-24. The trio of acts will then jump down to Texas for appearances at Germania Insurance Amphitheater in Austin, Texas and The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Irving, Texas, on June 26-27, followed by Walmart AMP in Rogers, Ark. on June 28. Finally, a performance at Fiddler’s Green in Denver on June 30 will bring the tour to a close.

All of the featured acts join this tour with new momentum as veterans in the indie scene. This year, Modest Mouse will celebrate the 20th anniversary of fan-favorite album Good News for People Who Love Bad News , as well as three decades of live performance. Cat Power is currently riding renown for her 2022 full-length album covering Bob Dylan’s 1966 Royal Albert Hall concert, the third covers album in the artist’s discography. Meanwhile, the Pixies continue to reorient following the addition of bassist Paz Lenchantin, who officially replaced Kim Deal in 2016; Doggerel , the third studio album from the band’s current iteration, leans towards rough punk-inspired sounds.

Presale tickets for the 2024 tour will be available for Citi cardmembers on Tuesday, Jan. 23 at 10 a.m. local time. General onsale begins Friday, Jan. 26 at 10 a.m. local time at ticketmaster .

Pixies and Modest Mouse 2024 Tour Dates with Special Guest Cat Power : May 31 – Firefly Distillery – Charleston, S.C. June 01 – PNC Music Pavilion – Charlotte, N.C. June 02 – Ascend Amphitheater – Nashville June 04 – Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park –  Atlanta June 05 – The Andrew J Brady Music Center – Cincinnati June 07 – Stage AE – Pittsburgh* June 08 – Budweiser Stage –  Toronto, Ontario June 09 – Place Bell – Laval, Quebec June 11 – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion  – Gilford, N.H. June 12 – TD Pavilion at The Mann – Philadelphia June 14 – Merriweather Post Pavilion – Columbia, Md. June 15 – Forest Hills Stadium – Queens, NY June 16 – Xfinity Center – Mansfield, Mass.  June 18 – Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill – Sterling Heights, Mich. June 19 – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island – Chicago June 20 – Surly Brewing Company – Minneapolis June 22 – Breese Stevens Field – Madison, Wis. June 23 – Vibrant Music Hall – Waukee, Iowa June 24 – Starlight Theatre – Kansas City June 26 – Germania Insurance Amphitheater – Austin, Texas June 27 – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory – Irving, Texas June 28 – Walmart AMP – Rogers, Ark.  June 30 – Fiddler’s Green –  Denver, CO * without Pixies.

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PHOTOS: Modest Mouse & Pixies Bring Joint Tour To NYC’s Forest Hills Stadium With Support From Cat Power

Alt-rock stalwarts Modest Mouse and Pixies brought their joint tour to New York’s Forest Hills Stadium Friday night.

After completing a co-headlining last year , the two indie veterans have reunited for another run of U.S. dates, joined again by Cat Power .

The tour stopped in New York on Friday for a night of ’90s and early aughts nostalgia, with each band performing classic material stretching back to Pixies’ 1988 breakout album  Surfer Rosa , which featured their biggest hit, “Where is My Mind”.

After stopping at Forest Hills, the three acts traveled to Xfinity Center in Mansfield, MA before continuing on to the Midwest. The tour continues with shows in Minneapolis, MN, Madison, WI, Waukee, IA, Kansas City, MO, Austin, TX, Irving, TX, Rogers, AR, and Greenwood Village, CO. Click below for a list of upcoming dates. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit Pixies ‘ or Modest Mouse ‘s website.

Click below to view photos from Modest Mouse and Pixies brought at Forest Hills Stadium courtesy of photographer  Baharam Foroughi .

Modest Mouse & Pixies Tour Dates:

JUN 20 THU – Surly Brewing Co. – Minneapolis, MN JUN 22 SAT – Breese Stevens Field – Madison, WI JUN 23 SUN – Vibrant Music Hall – Waukee, IA JUN 24 MON – Starlight Theatre – Kansas City, MO JUN 26 WED – Germania Insurance Amphitheater – Austin, TX JUN 27 THU – The Pavilion At Toyota Music Factory – Irving, TX JUN 28 FRI – Walmart AMP – Rogers, AR JUN 30 SUN – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre – Greenwood Village, CO

Modest Mouse | Forest Hills Stadium | Queens, NY | 6/15/24 | Photos: Baharam Foroughi

Pixies | forest hills stadium | queens, ny | 6/15/24 | photos: baharam foroughi.

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Pixies & Modest Mouse at Forest Hills Stadium / June 14, 2024

Alternative rock has lasted longer than anyone might have predicted when the music first went mainstream in the 1990s, and so have two of its leading proponents, Pixies and Modest Mouse. Pixies formed in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts, and split acrimoniously in 1993, reforming with a new lineup 20 years ago. The same year that Pixies split apart, Modest Mouse formed across the country in Issaquah, Washington, later relocating to Portland, Oregon. With the release of their fourth album,  Good News for People Who Love Bad News , Modest Mouse found commercial success in 2004, the same year that Pixies was re-forming.

The music of Pixies and Modest Mouse was perhaps too quirky for mainstream audiences, but found a substantial following in the booming alt-rock circuit of the 1990s and early 2000s. Pixies’ peak years started in 1989, thanks to “Monkey Gone to Heaven” and “Here Comes Your Man,” and continued to 1996, with “Letter to Memphis” and “Head On.” Modest Mouse’s peak years were mostly from 2004’s “Float On” to 2007’s “Dashboard,” with brief resurgences in 2014 with “Lampshades on Fire” and 2021 with “We Are Between.” Pixies and Modest Mouse are alt rock royalty for their respective generations.

On their first-ever tour together, Pixies and Modest Mouse focused on their catalogs rather than on recent releases. Perhaps no longer as angry or as experimental as in their college years, the musicians of both bands did not break much ground on this tour. Rather, they played the safer route, performing what has worked for them over the decades. Avoiding their most recent albums, Modest Mouse played nothing from 2021’s  The Golden Casket , and Pixies performed nothing from 2022’s  Doggerel . Nevertheless, both bands introduced one new song, Modest Mouse with “Third Side of the Moon” and Pixies with “Vegas Suite.”

A summary of both concert performances would be similar. In recent years, both bands recorded less frequently than in their peak years, and perform more older songs than newer songs live. Their audiences have shown more receptivity to their vintage staples. At Forest Hills Stadium, both bands satisfied their audiences by playing tight, energetic, and yet nostalgic repertoires.

“Can the houselights go down?” joked vocalist Isaac Brock, dressed in a dark suit and sunglasses as Modest Mouse began its set under the hot sun at 6:30 p.m. Modest Mouse began left of center with a nine-minute “The Stars Are Projectors,” with its changing tempos and Brock fiddling with distortion pedals and dials. From there, the music largely marched to a dance beat while Brock continued his eccentric, choppy singing style and distorted guitar leads. At one point, Brock sang into his guitar’s pickups rather than use his microphone. With mumbled lyrics challenging to discern throughout the performance, Modest Mouse’s one unreleased song, “Third Side of the Moon,” was perhaps the most sentimental song of the set. “I wish I had listened to every word you ever said, but you always spoke in whispers, and I’m not good at listening,” Brock sang. The set included a cover of the Cure’s “A Forest.”

Pixies’ vocalist/guitarist Black Francis (aka Frank Black), along with original lead guitarist Joey Santiago, original drummer David Lovering, and new bassist Emma Richardson, celebrated the 35th anniversary of the band’s groundbreaking album,  Doolittle , by playing eight songs from that album. Pixies arrived on stage at 8:10 p.m. with a snarling, crunchy, “U-Mass,” “Wave of Mutilation,” and a cover of the Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Head On.” At 59 years of age, Francis’ vocals were still very much intact, as he moved from softer songs like the new “Vegas Suite” to bellowing, moaning, screaming, and wailing on harsher songs – particularly “Gouge Away,” “Debaser,” and the anthemic “Where Is My Mind?” – this one was the night’s penultimate song. Francis punctuated songs with his rapid-fire stop-and-start guitar work. Richardson, most recently of Band of Skulls, took the lead vocal on a cover of Peter Ivers and David Lynch’s “In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)” from Lynch’s 1977 film  Eraserhead . The set closed with a rousing cover of Neil Young’s “Winterlong.”

Cat Power opened the concert at the unreasonable time slot of 5:30 to 6:00p.m. – most concert-goers were still in their rush-hour commute from their jobs to the stadium. Sorry we missed Cat Power’s brief performance.

Modest Mouse Setlist

• The Stars Are Projectors
• Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
• Paper Thin Walls
• A Forest (The Cure cover)
• This Devil’s Workday
• Third Side of the Moon
• The World at Large
• Doin’ the Cockroach
• Heart Cooks Brain

Pixies Setlist

• Wave of Mutilation
• Head On (The Jesus and Mary Chain cover)
• Isla de Encanta
• Planet of Sound
• Vegas Suite
• Here Comes Your Man
• Motorway to Roswell
• Down to the Well
• Mr. Grieves
• Subbacultcha
• Monkey Gone to Heaven
• All Over the World
• The Happening
• Bone Machine
• In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song) (Peter Ivers & David Lynch cover)
• Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)
• Where Is My Mind?
• Winterlong (Neil Young cover)

Pixies and Modest Mouse triumph their alt-rock classics at Surly Field

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When musicians who released their most critically acclaimed work decades prior go on tour, there are two possibilities: They will seem like their own tribute band, or they will recreate songs with the same fervor as in their younger years. Co-headlining Surly Brewing Festival Field’s sold-out show on Thursday evening, Pixies and Modest Mouse accomplished the latter. For four hours, the field full of beer, dad rock, hula hoops, and just a few sprinkles became a time capsule from the ‘90s and aughts.

Though billed as an opener and only playing eight songs, Chan Marshall’s (aka Cat Power) presence can’t be understated. With hands in the pockets of her “Cat Power Cover Tour” bomber jacket for most of the set, Marshall appeared effortless. Opening for legendary bands in front of a vast field of people is just another casual weekday evening for her. She gave off an ambiguous aura too — sipping her tea between songs, saying “muchas gracias” a few times, and clapping after her own song, “Unhate.”

Cat Power is no stranger to singing others’ songs, either. She visited St. Paul in March on her Bob Dylan tribute tour . At Surly, she made The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” all her own; the only recognizable elements were the words in the chorus. Another cover song was “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” by Kitty Wells, which Marhall dedicated to the “bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad girls and femmes,” especially sex workers. She sang, “Too many times married men think they're still single / That has caused many a good girl to go wrong,” with a fatigued tone, likely attributed to the song’s message: the way women are often scapegoats for a man’s faults. The set closed with Marshall’s salute to the crowd, instructions to “throw out your phones and take care of yourselves,” and a happy birthday sing-along for drummer Alianna Kalaba.

While most bands tour to support recent albums, Modest Mouse avoided their newest project, 2021’s The Golden Casket , altogether. (People next to me talked about how they hadn’t listened to the band’s new music). Good thing the Portland, Ore., band have a catalog full of hits and lesser known gems, plus a band lineup with the energy to keep every line alive. 

Isaac Brock, the lead singer, guitarist, and only remaining member of the original band, seemed to take the performance seriously, aimlessly shuffling around stage in a suit, throwing his head back, and projecting manic facial expressions, like the way his eyes bulged with excitement during “Dashboard” when a percussionist frantically played shakers. Brock’s distorted vocal style gave way to often unintelligible lyrics, like in “King Rat.” Upon a Google search, you’ll find out a few words to the stomping track with banjo are: “Deep water, deep water / Senseless denial / I went down like a rag doll wrath of a child.” On “Fire It Up,” he abandoned the microphone to sing into his guitar strings instead.

Modest Mouse make rock music to dance to. The late ‘90s to mid-aughts tracks are for shimmying and grooving — no head banging required. “Float On,” the song you hear in grocery stores and when the bartender yells “last call,” is fitting for any situation, especially when on stage. The steady bass-drum thumps produce a beat to march in place to.

Modest Mouse did, in fact, play one new, unreleased song, “Third Side of the Moon.” Fans (on Reddit) speculate it’s a tribute to the band’s late drummer, Jeremiah Green, and/or to the late Sam Jayne from Love is Laughter. “I wish I had listened to every word you ever said. But you always spoke in whispers, and I’m not good at listening,” Brock sang, a faint note of regret in his voice. It was the most mellow, contemplative song of the set.

Like Modest Mouse, Pixies played into fans’ desires, which were the throwbacks, not the tracks from their 2022 album, Doggerel. It’s difficult to deny: Like Modest Mouse, Pixies’ music has become more bland in recent years. Led by Black Francis (aka Frank Black), Pixies instead drew mostly from Doolittle and Trompe Le Monde, and even a few from their 1987 debut, Come on Pilgrim.

The band’s energy, especially when opening the gates with “U-Mass” and “Wave of Mutilation,” made the oldies more vivid. Francis’ rapid stop-and-start guitar work kept the crowd on their toes, and his thick voice carried the weight needed to execute hits from Doolittle like “Gouge Away,” “Debaser,” and “Wave of Mutilation.” Drummer David Lovering graced his setup smoothly. On guitar, Joey Santiago even resorted to playing strings with his hat. A few months ago, Emma Richardson joined the group, taking over for bassist Paz Lenchantin. Richardson’s backing vocals, synching harmonies, and lead vocals on “In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)” gave the set an occasional, necessary lightening-up.

Pixies and Modest Mouse are excellent at what they do — which is playing the same songs they’ve been playing for the last 15 to 30 years. But there’s nothing reductive in relishing in genuinely artful music that has stood the test of time. For many, hearing the hits allows them to tap into the comfort of nostalgia. 

I write this as someone who was not alive for the majority of Pixies’ album releases. I didn’t hear college radio stations play Doolittle , or read about the band as up-and-comers in music publications’ cover stories. So it’s interesting to think about whose legacy tour I’ll be venturing out into a field for in 30 years. If the show is sonically immaculate and the band members are passionately in touch with their craft like Surly’s headliners were, I’ll surely be satisfied. 

Wave of Mutilation

Here Comes Your Man

Mr. Grieves

Bone Machine

Motorway to Roswell

The Happening

Vegas Suite

In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song) (Peter Ivers cover)

Wave of Mutilation (U.K. Surf version)

Where Is My Mind?

Winterlong (Neil Young cover)

Modest Mouse

The Stars Are Projectors

Gravity Rides Everything

Doin’ the Cockroach

A Forest (The Cure cover)

Satin in a Coffin

Third Side of the Moon

Hula Hoop Song (improvised)

Night on the Sun

Breakthrough

Note: Cat Power set list info still pending

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Pixies and Modest Mouse impress with co-headlining show at Surly

Pixies and Modest Mouse’s co-headlining performances on Friday made for one of this year’s best concerts.

This was the first concert of the year at Surly Brewing Festival Field, one of the only large outdoor venues in the Twin Cities. While the crowd got rained on later into the evening, attendees did not stop having fun as they took in these memorable performances and enjoyed the outdoor venue. 

Amber Owens, 42, a fan of all three acts performing, was impressed by the venue.

“I was kind of wondering how they were doing it, I saw in the pictures on the website that it looks pretty packed at whatever show that was taken at, but there’s lots of space, a decent amount of restrooms and I love that they have a lot of options for food,” Owens said.

Tristan Knoblauch, 22, said he enjoyed his first visit to the venue.

“This is actually my first time, and it’s kick-ass,” Knoblauch said. “Right next to the Surly brewery, it’s a really cool joint they got here.”

Friday night’s double bill brought out fans young and old to see these alternative-rock legends.

Modest Mouse went on before the Pixies and performed an excellent set that highlighted their most famous songs like “Float On” and “Dashboard” while also treating fans to deep cuts like “Breakthrough” and “Night on the Sun.”

As usual, Modest Mouse was impressively dynamic as a live act. Whether it was playing a slower song like “Fire it Up” or a more aggressive track like “Satin in a Coffin,” the songs they performed had a good variety of energy and vibe.

Isaac Brock, Modest Mouse’s frontman and primary songwriter, was enthralling as he expertly played his inventive, intricate guitar parts while singing and yelping with commendable energy.

It remains clear that Modest Mouse is one of the hardest working bands in the industry, as they come to the Twin Cities just about every year like clockwork and put on a great show every time.

Afterward came the Pixies 80-minute-long set, which was even better than Modest Mouse’s impressive set — a testament to how great the double-billing was.

The influential four-piece packed over 20 songs into their setlist, performing one after the other with little to no room for stage banter in between.

Except for new bassist Emma Richardson, the band had the same lineup since they gained notoriety in the late ‘80s, and it is reassuring to hear the band perform their classic songs with the same vitality and energy they did on the albums in their heyday.

Frontman Frank Black’s booming voice and frantic guitar playing gave the band’s performance an outstanding level of energy, especially for a legacy act. Richardson was great on bass and impressively filled the absence of Kim Deal by replicating her original vocal parts on a few songs.

While the audience was hyped for the whole show, certain songs generated even more excitement. Once the opening chord of “Here Comes Your Man” hit, cheers from the crowd were abundant. Throughout the band’s most famous song “Where Is My Mind?,” many concert-goers sang along and got emotional.

With the amount of songs they played and their constant level of passion and energy, Pixies remarkably blew Modest Mouse out of the water.

With two great back-to-back headlining sets from Pixies and Modest Mouse, Surly has kicked off their summer concert season with a bang.

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Review: Pixies and Modest Mouse shine bright under gray-skied Surly Field kickoff concert

L ike the gray clouds that hung overhead all night, Thursday's sold-out kickoff concert in the Surly Brewing Festival Field season with the Pixies and Modest Mouse did not look too promising going in.

Both influential alternative bands from different eras — the late-'80s and early-'90s in the Pixies case, the 2000s in Modest Mouse's — each has a checkered history of being spotty live acts. There have even been times their idiosyncratic and gruff-mannered frontmen have seemed downright antagonistic and miserable being on stage.

Fortunately for the 6,000 fans who turned out Thursday despite the weather (and the occasional bad attitudes), the rain mostly held off, and the bands each rose up and put on enthusiastic performances that well represented the best of their discographies.

After a rich, neo-twangy opening set by smoky-voiced barroom balladeer Cat Power — who's back to singing more of her usual material after her exhilarating spring tour recreating Bob Dylan's 1966 concerts — Modest Mouse started out weird and winding with the nine-minute epic "The Stars Are Projectors." From there, though, things remained relatively straight-ahead for the Portland, Ore., rockers of "Float On" hitmaking fame.

Sporting a half-shaven head, Modest Mouse bandleader Isaac Brock sparked up audience participation early on as he animatedly sang a couple fan favorites, "Fire It Up" and "Baby Blue Sedan." The latter came off like a Gang of Four razor-funky tear.

Brock also seemed tickled to drop in a surprising cover of the Cure's moody oldie "A Forest" mid-set. Then he playfully plucked a banjo for "Satin in a Coffin" that prompted one audience member to yell, "More banjo!" That, too, was most unexpected.

With daylight still brightly covering the stage — Thursday was the summer equinox — the Pixies took the stage at 8:30 p.m. and went full-tilt right away. Their opening song "U-Mass" sounded extra-crunchy and snarling. That fast-burning fan favorite quickly gave way to two others, "Wave of Mutilation" and a cover of the Jesus and Mary Chain's "Head On."

The Pixies' 59-year-old frontman Black Francis (aka Frank Black) not only looked eager but also appeared to be in good shape. For the most part, he proved able to still bellow, scream, wail and moan like he did on record in harrowing-sounding songs such as "Gouge Away," "Debaser" and the night's penultimate song, "Where Is My Mind?" He did alter/toy with his delivery in a few tunes with amusing results, too, like adding a vocal effect in "Planet of Sound" that sounded like a voice out of a '50s sci-fi movie.

Maybe as much as Francis, people were also paying close attention to bassist Emma Richardson on Thursday. The Band of Skulls alum only joined the Pixies a few months ago. She is the third woman to fill the position left by the band's original bass player Kim Deal (now focusing on her own group, the Breeders). Like her predecessor Paz Lenchantin, she does the pivotal role justice.

Richardson's harmony vocals in Deal-heavy tunes such as "Caribou" and "Bone Machine" were spot-on. She even took over as lead singer with resounding success in a cover of the "Eraserhead" soundtrack nugget "In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)." The other two original Pixies, guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer David Lovering, remained as integral and electrifying as ever, too.

With Richardson being one big new element, the band seemingly did not want to hit the fans with too much other newness. They ignored their decent albums of recent years and stuck mostly to their 1987-1991 canon. Kind of like with the could've-been-worse weather, no one seemed to complain.

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Pixies and Modest Mouse impress with co-headlining show at Surly

Posted on June 24, 2024

Originally Posted on The Minnesota Daily via UWIRE

Pixies and Modest Mouse’s co-headlining performances on Friday made for one of this year’s best concerts.

This was the first concert of the year at Surly Brewing Festival Field, one of the only large outdoor venues in the Twin Cities. While the crowd got rained on later into the evening, attendees did not stop having fun as they took in these memorable performances and enjoyed the outdoor venue. 

Amber Owens, 42, a fan of all three acts performing, was impressed by the venue.

“I was kind of wondering how they were doing it, I saw in the pictures on the website that it looks pretty packed at whatever show that was taken at, but there’s lots of space, a decent amount of restrooms and I love that they have a lot of options for food,” Owens said.

Tristan Knoblauch, 22, said he enjoyed his first visit to the venue.

“This is actually my first time, and it’s kick-ass,” Knoblauch said. “Right next to the Surly brewery, it’s a really cool joint they got here.”

Friday night’s double bill brought out fans young and old to see these alternative-rock legends.

Modest Mouse went on before the Pixies and performed an excellent set that highlighted their most famous songs like “Float On” and “Dashboard” while also treating fans to deep cuts like “Breakthrough” and “Night on the Sun.”

As usual, Modest Mouse was impressively dynamic as a live act. Whether it was playing a slower song like “Fire it Up” or a more aggressive track like “Satin in a Coffin,” the songs they performed had a good variety of energy and vibe.

Isaac Brock, Modest Mouse’s frontman and primary songwriter, was enthralling as he expertly played his inventive, intricate guitar parts while singing and yelping with commendable energy.

It remains clear that Modest Mouse is one of the hardest working bands in the industry, as they come to the Twin Cities just about every year like clockwork and put on a great show every time.

Afterward came the Pixies 80-minute-long set, which was even better than Modest Mouse’s impressive set — a testament to how great the double-billing was.

The influential four-piece packed over 20 songs into their setlist, performing one after the other with little to no room for stage banter in between.

Except for new bassist Emma Richardson, the band had the same lineup since they gained notoriety in the late ‘80s, and it is reassuring to hear the band perform their classic songs with the same vitality and energy they did on the albums in their heyday.

Frontman Frank Black’s booming voice and frantic guitar playing gave the band’s performance an outstanding level of energy, especially for a legacy act. Richardson was great on bass and impressively filled the absence of Kim Deal by replicating her original vocal parts on a few songs.

While the audience was hyped for the whole show, certain songs generated even more excitement. Once the opening chord of “Here Comes Your Man” hit, cheers from the crowd were abundant. Throughout the band’s most famous song “Where Is My Mind?,” many concert-goers sang along and got emotional.

With the amount of songs they played and their constant level of passion and energy, Pixies remarkably blew Modest Mouse out of the water.

With two great back-to-back headlining sets from Pixies and Modest Mouse, Surly has kicked off their summer concert season with a bang.

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