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What The Film!? – The X-Files: I Want to Believe

March 25th, 2013

Dane Sager

What The Film!? is a weekly column exclusive to Under The Gun Review that brings to light the general fuckery Hollywood hoped you’d never notice. Written by Dane Sager, this column shows no mercy to films that try and pull the proverbial wool over our eyes.

If you know a film with major plot holes or those that make you scratch your eyes out, tell us! Email utgjames@gmail.com with the subject “What The Film” and we’ll try to get your suggestion featured on the site.

Everyone loves a good comeback. A return to form. If you told someone from the …

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Tags: amanda peet, bad movie science, bad movies, chris carter, dane sager, david duchovny, die hard, fight the future, gillian anderson, i want to believe, lost, nine inch nails, nirvana, pixies, plot holes, pulp fiction, smashing pumpkins, The Smashing Pumpkins, the x files, what the film, x files, xzibit

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The Pixies add dates to Doolittle Tour

July 7th, 2011

Grant Trimboli

The Pixies have added more dates onto the already enormous and lengthy tour in support of their 1989 release, Doolittle. View all of the added touring dates by simply looking below.

OCTOBER
27 Wellmont Theatre, Montclair, NJ
28 Asbury Park Convention Hall, Asbury Park, NJ
29 Palace Theatre, Waterbury, CT
30 Hampton Beach Ballroom, Hampton Beach, NH

NOVEMBER
1 State Theatre, Portland, ME
2 The Armory, Rochester, NY
3 State Theatre Center for the Arts, Easton, PA
5 Paramount Theatre, Huntington, NY
6 Grand Opera House, Wilmington, DE
8 War Memorial Auditorium, Greensboro, NC
9 Louisville Palace Theatre, Louisville, …

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Tags: add, dates, doolittle, Doolittle Tour, pixies, the pixies

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Pixies dates for Doolittle Tour

January 21st, 2011

Grant Trimboli

The Pixies have revealed more tour dates for the 22nd year celebration of their album Doolittle. Click past the jump to see if they are coming to your town.

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Tags: canada, dates, doolittle, Doolittle Tour, pixies, the pixies, tour

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Pixies Add More Dates

July 9th, 2010

Grant Trimboli

PIXIES ADD MORE DATES TO 2010 U.S. “DOOLITTLE TOUR”. After the jump!

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Tags: Doolittle Tour, pixies, tour

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Pixies on “The Tonight Show”

November 9th, 2009

Chris

Courtesy: Pitchfork

As part of their current “Hey! Remember how great Doolittle is?!” world tour and marketing blitz, Pixies stopped by “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” on Friday and played a completely competent version of “Here Comes Your Man”. Totally and completely competent!

At the top of the clip, Conan holds up the band’s Minotaur box set, which is comically large.

Watch it all after the you-know-what:

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Pixies and Weird Al?

November 5th, 2009

Matt

The Pixies might have just kicked off the American leg of their Doolittle tour last night in Los Angeles, but Black Francis has already made plans to return to L.A. on December 8th and 9th when he headlines Winston Calling: A Rock and Comedy benefit concert for baby Winston Bertran. The first concert of the two-night benefit at the Echoplex and its upstairs venue the Echo will also feature appearances by “Weird Al” Yankovic (who will sing the Pixies’ “I Bleed”), Flea, Michael Penn plus members of Pixies, Love & Rockets and She Wants Revenge. Francis’ Grand Duchy side project …

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Tags: al, pixies, weird

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Rain Machine to Open for Pixies

October 13th, 2009

Chris

Courtesy: Pitchfork

After a triumphant run in Europe, the Pixies’ Doolittle tour is finally making its way to the U.S. on November 4. And now there’s another reason to look forward to these classic-LP gigs: TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone will open select Doolittle dates with his solo project Rain Machine.

If you’re unfamiliar with Rain Machine, may I suggest our album review and/or recent interview with Malone about the LP’s colorful cover?

All Pixies and Rain Machine dates below:

Pixies Doolittle Tour:

10-13 Amsterdam, Holland – Heineken Music Hall
10-14 Brussels, Belgium – Forest National
10-15 Paris, France …

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Tags: kyp malone, pixies, rain machine, tv on the radio

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The Pixies to Tour for “Doolittle” Anniversary

September 15th, 2009

Matt

Twenty years ago in 2009, the Pixies released their second album, Doolittle. Now, the group has announced a string of European tour dates to celebrate the longevity of the album that really kickstarted the groups carrear. The tour starts in October, and the official dates can be found at the Pixes website HERE

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Tags: 2009, doolittle, Europe, European, pixies, reunion, The, tour

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Pixies announce US “Doolittle” Tour Dates

July 28th, 2009

James Shotwell

LOS ANGELES, CA – July 28, 2009 — Europe may get them first, but the Pixies will tour the USA late this year.

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the release of their classic 1989 album Doolittle, the band – Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering – will kick off the very special US “Doolittle Tour” at the Palladium in Los Angeles on Wednesday, November 4. The U.S. tour will hit a total of nine cities, including three dates in New York City. Ticket prices and on-sale dates will vary city to city, but some tickets …

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Tags: anniversary, doolittle, minotaur box set, pixies, tour dates, united states, us

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Pixies to Release MINOTAUR

April 22nd, 2009

James Shotwell

pixies2_wideweb__470x3460 As Bono once put it, “”…one of America’s greatest bands ever,” The Pixies are release a collector’s set entitled, Minotaur later this year. It will consist of limited and deluxe editions of the band’s first five albums, all with new art and packaging. Here, we’ll let this video explain it better than we ever could: