It’s a big week here around Massachusetts for the Pixies, as the celebrated hometown product releases new album The Night the Zombies Came on Friday (October 25), and plays an intimate and very sold-out show at The Sinclair in Cambridge the night before. The new record is the band’s 10th overall — if counting their classic 1987 4AD mini LP Come On Pilgrim, as suggested by pixiesmerch.com — and first dose of new music since 2022’s Doggerel. It was recorded at Vermont’s Guilford Sound studios with producer Tom Dalgety, and features new bassist Emma Richardson.
That’s all solid info! But what caught our attention this week was a new interview Joey Santiago and Dave Lovering conducted with the NME. And while the chat gets into the record and new recruit, the British platform, unsurprisingly, asked the pair about the recent Oasis reunion, and if the reunited band had any advice for the reunited Gallagher Brothers.
Santiago sure did. Check out an excerpt below.
NME: Have you got any tips for Oasis on how to make a reunion successful over the long term?
Santiago: Just no physical violence. Insults are fine. Get sleep. If you’re going to get shitfaced, do it after the show.
NME: Should they record new albums?
Santiago: No no no, that is the most stressful part. I don’t think they’re ready for that yet. I think that the biggest tip I could give Oasis is when they’re playing the Rose Bowl [Stadium, Pasadena, California], they should ask this band called the Pixies to open up for them.
No violence, no booze before the gig, and no new album. And the Pixies as opener.
That sounds about right.
Meanwhile, four tracks from The Night the Zombies Came have hit the streams in advance of Friday’s drop, including last month’s cruising “Motoroller”; hear ’em below.