Pixies Premiere New Video for Greens and Blues

Legendary alt-punks Pixies have premiered a new video for Greens and Blues. The track is taken from their EP-2 which was released earlier this year and the video, featuring Mel Rodriguez (Little Miss Sunshine, Panic Room) as the last remaining man on a desolate earth trying to record our races’ history,  was directed by Josh Frank, author of the book Fool The World, the Oral History of the Band Called Pixies. Black Francis has said this about the inspiration for the song itself:

“We had done ‘Gigantic’ as the closer of our live set for many years at our reunion shows and it worked really well.  But I could see that we were going to grow weary of that and I felt we needed a ‘better’ ‘Gigantic.’  ‘Greens and Blues’ was my attempt to come up with another song that would – musically, emotionally and physiologically – sit in the same place that ‘Gigantic’ has.  Not as a replacement, but as a song that could fill the emotional niche that ‘Gigantic’ occupied.”

Check out the video for Greens and Blues below as well as the groups upcoming tour dates:

MARCH

28 Teatro La Cupula, Santiago, Chile

30 Lollapalooza, Santiago, Chile

APRIL

1 Rock’n’Fall, Montevideo, Uruguay

1/2 Lollapalooza Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina

4 Festival Estereo Picnic, Bogota Colombia

6 Lollapalooza Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil

8 Costa Verde, Lima, Peru

MAY

29/31 Primavera Sound, Barcelona, Spain

JUNE

2 Rock In Idro, Bologna, Italy

4 Caribana Festival, Crans-Pres Celigny, Switzerland

5/7 Primavera Sound, Porto, Portugal

8 Field Day, Victoria Park, London, UK

13 Orange Festival, Warsaw, Poland

15 Northside, Arhus, Denmark

17/18 Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel

20 Best Kept Secret, Hilvarenbeek, Holland

20/22 Hurricane, Schessel, Germany

20/22 Southside, Neuhausen, Germany

25 Inmusic, Zagreb, Croatia

29 Marley Park, Dublin, Ireland (with Arcade Fire)

30 Live at the Marquee, Cork, Ireland

JULY

2 Nuits De Fourviere, Lyon, France

5 Rock Werchter, Werchter, Belgium

6 Beauregard, Herouville-St. Clair, France

10 Castlefield Bowl, Manchester, UK

11/13 T In the Park, Balado, Kinross-Shire, Scotland

AUGUST

16/17 Summer Sonic, Tokyo/Osaka, Japan