| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 04/13/2007 : 10:10:30
http://www.nme.com/news/frank-black/27682
Frank Black reveals details of two new albums
He'll use the Black Francis moniker once again
Pixies frontman Frank Black has two new albums on the way.
'Bluefinger' -- a new album inspired by Dutch painter Herman Brood -- is slated for a September release via Cooking Vinyl.
This album will see Black returning to the name Black Francis -- a moniker he used during his early days with the Pixies.
The album's first single, 'Threshold Apprehension', will be available as a digital download beginning May 7. It will then be released as a limited edition 7" single and a digital download bundle beginning May 25.
Speaking about the new album, Black said, "I used a couple of Herman Brood's painting titles for songs of my own for my new record 'Bluefinger'.
"I have my own impressions as to what his painting 'Threshold Apprehension' was all about. My song 'Threshold Apprehension' has nothing to do with the painting except that it, and my record 'Bluefinger', has everything to do with my impressions of Herman Brood," he said.
Black is also set to release a greatest hits album on June 12, entitled 'Best of Frank Black 93 - 03'. It is meant to serve as a narrative of Black's solo career during the 10-year period.
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| Carl |
Posted - 08/24/2007 : 13:21:27
Cheers, S!
eil.com.
BLACK FRANCIS Bluefinger
The Pixies' iconic lead singer Frank Black dons his decades-old moniker, Black Francis and, imbued
by the spirit of eccentric Dutch painter/musician Herman Brood, recorded a brand new set of 11
songs, collectively titled 'Bluefinger', due for release on Monday 3rd September. The album will be
preceded by a new single, 'Captain Pasty' on Monday 27th August.Directly or indirectly, all 11
songs reference Brood, known as the "Dutch personification of 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.'" Brood was a rock
musician going back to the 1960s, and he and his band, Herman Brood and His Wild Romance, experienced
success in Europe, and even scored a top 40 hit in the U.S.A. in 1979 with 'Saturday Night'. He was outspoken
and in the public eye for decades, in part due to his relationship with the German artist, Nina Hagen. His art
has been exhibited at galleries and at the Museum of Groningen in Amsterdam, and he created murals,
considered by many to be valuable contributions to Dutch culture and art, in various public spaces around that
city. A hard drug user for many years, he swore off most drugs later in his life, but the damage had been done.
In 2001, he was told he had only a few months to live, and later that year, committed suicide at aged 54 by
jumping off the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel.'Bluefinger' showcases a Herman Brood cover, 'You Can't
Break a Heart and Have It,' and ten Black Francis originals including 'Threshold Apprehension,' which is a bonus
track on Frank Black's 1993-2003 'best of' album, which was released on Monday 18th June.As Black Francis,
Boston and Los Angeles-bred Black was one of the architects of modern rock as front man of the Pixies, whose
"loud-quiet-loud" dynamics, primal scream intensity and free-ranging compositional style exerted a huge
influence on alternative music. His solo recordings as Frank Black demonstrated his artistic restlessness,
embracing alternative pop and avant-garde rock with equal fervor; he continued exploring this territory with a
new band, The Catholics, for several years before journeying to Nashville to create two critically-acclaimed
albums with producer Jon Tiven -2005's 'Honeycomb' and the more intense, upbeat 'Fast Man Raider Man' in
2006.
MTV.com.
Frank Black just put out his 93-03 retrospective release and has a new
album due September 11 from his Black Francis alter ego, but he's not through yet
— the Pixies frontman also recently recorded covers of Tom Waits; Roxy Music;
and the Good, the Bad & the Queen songs for an exclusive live iTunes EP. The five-
song session, which also features the Black originals "Massif Central" and
"Manitoba," is available now. ...
Peripheral Vision.
Bluefinger
Posted by Ed on August 21st, 2007
The musical genius that is Frank Black has a new album coming
out next month. However, he has reverted back to his Pixies name of
Black Francis, and it sounds like this is a return to more
raucous material rather than the more mellow alt-country stuff he has
been releasing the last couple of years.
The album is released in the UK on 3rd September and you can listen
to the first couple of tracks over on the dedicated Bluefinger website,
where Frank/Black/Charles explains the origins of his Pixies
stage name, what made him revert back to it and the inspiration for the
album.
The Chattanooga Pulse.
New Music
by John M. James
September 05, 2007
Two “old friends” are rising back into the aural zeitgeist next week. Heart
vocalist Ann Wilson returns with Hope & Glory, her debut solo album
showcasing a new, poignant, serious-minded original, and 11 powerfully
resonating cover selections. More somber and earthy than political or preachy,
the themes adrift in Neil Young’s “War of Man,” Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-
Gonna Fall,” and Jesse Colin Young’s “Darkness, Darkness” are well stirred by
these troubled times, and well, mighty comforting here in the foxhole. More
clouds and thunder come in a spooky-cool run at Pink Floyd’s “Goodbye Blue
Sky,” a down-home front-porch hootenanny of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s
“Bad Moon Rising” with guest Gretchen Wilson, and a call to “Get Together” with
The Youngbloods’ Summer of Love hit.
Other guests include a duet with Elton John on his own “Where to Now Saint
Peter,” and k.d. lang riding shotgun on the road to Lucinda Williams’ “Jackson.”
Closing out the Zoe Records release, Wilson’s new song, “Little Problems, Little
Lies,” was written from the imagined perspective of an American soldier in Iraq,
“a bleedin’ in a bombed-out SUV,” and succeeds where 90 percent of pop music
today fails, asking the listener to slow down a little, breathe deep, and listen to
the words… Pixies founder Frank Black (Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson
IV) is playing Sibyl again, back in his Black Francis personality and raising up
the hairs on the back of my neck with a strong new album fixated on Dutch wild
man Herman Brood. Bluefinger is due this coming Tuesday on the Cooking Vinyl
- a complete, magnificent return to the electrifying riffs and convulsing glee that
made the Pixies so great. Who’s Brood?
Black hopes the listener will discover the late painter and musician, whose
life of “sex, drugs and rock n’ roll” excess urged the songwriter to flip back into
his decade-suppressed alter ego and write this album in a few intense,
possessed days. One Brood cover makes the set, the pithy “You Can’t Break a
Heart and Have It.” A new five-track mini album of Luxembourg sessions
recorded earlier this summer (as Frank Black) is also now available exclusively
through iTunes. Three cool covers made the set: Roxy Music’s “Re-Make/Re-
Model,” Tom Waits’ “The Black Rider,” and The Good, The Bad & The Queen’s
“History Songs.”
ChartAttack.com.
Hot Hot Heat have talked non-stop about their newest LP,
Happiness Ltd., almost since they started writing it. If you're
wondering whether the follow-up to Elevator is really the return to
their dancey roots that they claim it is, we can tell you that the
answer is definitely no. And sticking with the battle royale theme,
Steve Bays can't hold the jock strap of Black Francis (a.k.a.
Frank Black), who makes a return to the moniker that made him
famous on Bluefinger. Sadly, the rest of The Pixies couldn't make it
to the party.
New York Magazine.
4. Black Francis, "Lolita"
Charles Thompson has reclaimed the Black Francis moniker he used when with the Pixies,
but his new stuff has the same noisy twang as his best solo work from the past decade. Plus:
harmonica solo! [Fuel Friends]
ChartAttack.com - Charty Chart Chat: New Pornographers See Stars Below Them.
The Chart Sizzler Award goes to the floppy-
hatted Basia Bulat, as Oh My Darling enters
the chart at #27 on the strength of airplay from
five campus radio stations, including a #1 spot
at CFRU (Guelph) and a #3 placing at CJAM
(Windsor). Oh My Darling just beat out Mum's
Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy at #28, followed
by Black Francis' Bluefinger at #34 and
Bionic's Black Blood at #41. |
| fbc |
Posted - 08/18/2007 : 16:43:41
i love it when you do that. pulling links out of nowhere. |
| The Holiday Son |
Posted - 08/18/2007 : 16:35:02
quote:
Originally posted by Ziggy
Annoyingly, the podcast doesn't seem to be working now.
http://podcast.timesonline.co.uk/serve.php/1236/soundswithblackfrancis.mp3 |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 08/18/2007 : 16:13:17
Thanks, fbc.
winamp all the way for me :P |
| fbc |
Posted - 08/18/2007 : 08:57:47
I had the same problem, zig. You have to follow the link to itunes (that's if you have itunes).
I've downloaded it so I'll post a link to it asap.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/fzns05
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| Ziggy |
Posted - 08/18/2007 : 08:38:59
Annoyingly, the podcast doesn't seem to be working now.
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| fbc |
Posted - 08/18/2007 : 06:22:17
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/audio_video/podcasts/article2273203.ece
Frank Black chats to Pete after a few glasses of champagne about his new album "Bluefinger" and telling bedtime stories to his children.
"threshold" has been around since 1988  |
| Carl |
Posted - 05/24/2007 : 18:17:40
Haha, nah it's just a couple of 'all-in-good-fun' remarks, tro, but thank you!
Just another:
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2007/05/2403.cfm
Riverfront Times (scroll down).
Fans hoping for new material from the Pixies might have to wait a while. Black Francis, a.k.a. Frank Black,
is gearing up for Bluefinger. But if the first single is any indication, you won't mind the delay. "Threshold
Apprehension," which is already available at www.emusic.com (and will appear on the June 12-released Best of
Frank Black '93-'03), summons Pixies classics like "U-Mass" and "Debaser." Due in September, the album
pays homage to the late painter/musician Herman Brood and marks Black's first solo project under his
original pseudonym. Best of all, it proves Black Francis can still wail like he did twenty years ago. — Andy
Vihstadt
Aversion.com.
Frank Back Records as Black Francis
Again
Jun 11, 2007
Frank Black will be back to using his Pixies-era nom de rock, Black
Francis, for his next solo release.
Black Francis' Bluefinger finds Black/Francis adopting his Pixies persona
for his first time since The Pixies disbanded in 1993. The album, follows
closely on the heels of a Frank Black retrospective disc, Frank Black '93-
'03, which arrives in stores tomorrow (June 12) from Cooking Vinyl (read
full story). It's slated for a Sept. 11 release from Cooking Vinyl, and is
described as an ode to the artist Herman Brood, according to press
materials.
FWWeekly.
Black Francis
Bluefinger (Cooking Vinyl)
By Tom Geddie
Black Francis is an old stage name for Frank Black, an old stage
name for Charles Thompson, lead singer of The Pixies. Bluefinger,
Black Francis’ debut, could be a kissin’ cousin to the defunct punk
legends’ classic Doolittle.
On opener “Captain Patsy,” Francis sings of the fighter pilot who
likes to be in the here and now and who likes “the rattle of the
melting gun.” On the closer, the title track, Francis sings of
someone who takes responsibility for his or her own decisions. In
between, the album is filled with straightforward lyrics and music,
and a screw-’em-all attitude.
Black says he was inspired to make Bluefinger by the spirit of
Herman Brood, a famous Dutch musician and painter also known
for his lifestyle of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. He committed
suicide when he was 54 by jumping off the roof of the Hilton Hotel
in Amsterdam.
The philosophy of nihilism posits that the world has no objective
purpose, truth, or value, meaning that no action has any more or
less value than any other. It is often used as an excuse for reckless
self-indulgence, hip cynicism, and, for some odd reason, an explanation for depression. Bluefinger’s 11 songs — 10
by Black and one by Brood — roam through fear, youthful resistance, lust, and something like love. Is there any
real happiness in it? Do any of the songs have any future? Not that they necessarily need to. If you play it, play it
loud.
AngryApe.
Frank Black Readies Black Francis
Bluefinger Album
Published Wednesday, 8th August, 2007 at 5:27 PM
Frank Black of Pixies fame has gone back to the older moniker
of Black Francis for his next album, Bluefinger.
The album is inspired by Dutch painter / musician Herman Brood
- who Black also covers on this very record, by offering his own
take on the song You Can't Break A Heart And Have It.
Speaking of the album, Black Francis says: "My new manager
asked me for a bonus track for a "best of" compilation to be
released later in the year."
"As I prepared for the sessions, I became gripped by the spirit
of Herman Brood, and my bonus track expanded into an 11
song record called Bluefinger in just a few days." he continued.
Cooking Vinyl will release the eleven track long-player on
September 3rd, a week after the single Captain Pasty emerges
on August 27th.
Bluefinger Track Listing:
01. Captain Pasty
02. Threshold Apprehension
03. Test Pilot Blues
04. Lolita
05. Tight Black Rubber
06. Angels Come To Comfort You
07. Your Mouth Into Mine
08. Discotheque 36
09. You Can't Break A Heart And Have It
10. She Took All The Money
11. Bluefinger
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| trobrianders |
Posted - 05/17/2007 : 14:26:02
Man Carl really gets it around here. But I like the way you hold up Carl.
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Ed is the hoo hoo |
| Carl |
Posted - 05/17/2007 : 11:37:50
No, it's Google Alerts I rely on, honest guv! |
| Jefrey |
Posted - 05/16/2007 : 15:55:14
Go to suicidegirls.com to get your music news, eh Carl? ;)
== jeffamerica == |
| Carl |
Posted - 05/04/2007 : 17:31:04
More of the same:
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003578948
http://www.groovevolt.com/Newswires/newswire.asp?ID=2494
http://newsblaze.com/story/20070428080452tsop.nb/newsblaze/MUSIC001/Music.html
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/42612-frank-black-does-best-of-plans-lp-as-black-francis
http://www.punknews.org/article/23483
http://suicidegirls.com/news/music/21146/
http://www.thedarkstuff.com/2007/04/frank-black-solo-compilation-coming-in.html
http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=110&csid2=844&fid1=25562 |
| Jefrey |
Posted - 04/19/2007 : 16:26:07
Weird thing about the paintings, I've seen the same painting called different things. It also seems like he has a kind of Warhol thing going where he has the same basic painting, but repainted slightly differently.
Anyways, here's some stuff that's not a song title, but relevent:
Nina:
Mouth:
No idea, but seems to fit the theme:
== jeffamerica == |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 04/19/2007 : 04:32:59
quote:
Originally posted by chickenwithtwoheads
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/artikelen/artikel/34269658
Article in Dutch, after I sent them an email about Bluefinger and Threshold
apprehension. I translated the interesting part for you:
[...]
Willem Venema is Frank Black's agent in The Netherlands. At the end of the seventies
he was Brood's agent too. "Frank Black visited me at home and we talked about Herman
Brood. I showed him some paintings. Years later I received an email from his manager
with a request for more information about Herman Brood. I gave him the adress of Koos
van Dijk, Brood's manager"
Van Dijk still represents Herman Brood and his family. "I'm still his manager. In fact, it's
better than ever. The exhibition in Groningen where people could see his entire atelier
in the museum attracted 55,000 people. Even Bono has been there. He said: 'I'm not a
friend, I'm a fan.' Herman would've been proud of that. And now this... Herman was a
huge fan of the Pixies. He often listened to it in his car."
Van Dijk hasn't heard nor seen anything from Bluefinger yet: "There will possibly be a
painting of Herman on the sleeve. We're working on that now.
All I know is that the album features a cover of You can't break a heart and have it."
[...}
I've sent emails to Lola Brood and Koos van Dijk too, to get some more inside info,
if they respond I'll let you know.
great job chris! I thought about e-mailing them too, it's not like they would have known about it with there own journalistic skills
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BF: Mag ik Engels spreken? |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 04/18/2007 : 13:45:01
They met in Brood's Beer.
Still ain't heard all of it, no longer feel like a forum member. Everybody ahh. Fuck it I'll wait. FB missed out on the punk scene . It's ok he got round to it later.
"Make it go right back to the end"
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Ed is the hoo hoo |
| coastline |
Posted - 04/17/2007 : 13:59:44
So, Brood was a Pixies fan. (Like us freaks.) But it doesn't seem like FB and HB met.
 Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
| fbc |
Posted - 04/17/2007 : 13:56:39
the plot thickens |
| Carl |
Posted - 04/17/2007 : 13:52:46
Cheer cwth, intriguing! |
| chickenwithtwoheads |
Posted - 04/17/2007 : 12:27:08
That's me speaking. I don't know her personally, but Google does
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| coastline |
Posted - 04/17/2007 : 12:23:13
quote:
Originally posted by chickenwithtwoheadsI've sent emails to Lola Brood and Koos van Dijk too, to get some more inside info, if they respond I'll let you know.
Is this you speaking, chicken, or is it from the article? You know Lola Brood?
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
| chickenwithtwoheads |
Posted - 04/17/2007 : 12:14:29
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/artikelen/artikel/34269658
Article in Dutch, after I sent them an email about Bluefinger and Threshold
apprehension. I translated the interesting part for you:
[...]
Willem Venema is Frank Black's agent in The Netherlands. At the end of the seventies
he was Brood's agent too. "Frank Black visited me at home and we talked about Herman
Brood. I showed him some paintings. Years later I received an email from his manager
with a request for more information about Herman Brood. I gave him the adress of Koos
van Dijk, Brood's manager"
Van Dijk still represents Herman Brood and his family. "I'm still his manager. In fact, it's
better than ever. The exhibition in Groningen where people could see his entire atelier
in the museum attracted 55,000 people. Even Bono has been there. He said: 'I'm not a
friend, I'm a fan.' Herman would've been proud of that. And now this... Herman was a
huge fan of the Pixies. He often listened to it in his car."
Van Dijk hasn't heard nor seen anything from Bluefinger yet: "There will possibly be a
painting of Herman on the sleeve. We're working on that now.
All I know is that the album features a cover of You can't break a heart and have it."
[...}
I've sent emails to Lola Brood and Koos van Dijk too, to get some more inside info,
if they respond I'll let you know.
|
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 04/16/2007 : 19:50:56
nice work as always Carl! you always add so much to the forum. I think we would all be lost without your news. 
Coastline, coudn't find any other titles.
bluefinger |
| Carl |
Posted - 04/15/2007 : 09:28:02
Posted by my name is chip as a seperate topic, may as well stick it here:
http://www.spin.com/features/news/2007/04/070413_frblack/
Frank Black Preps Two Releases
April 13, 2007
Pixies frontman explores work of painter with Bluefinger and
readies Best of Frank Black 93 - 03 for June.
While his work with the Pixies
is being reworked by indie
rock's finest, Frank Black has
been gearing up to release
two new albums, Bluefinger,
dropping via Cooking Vinyl in
September, and Best of
Frank Black 93 - 03, a
greatest hits album arriving
June 12, NME.com reports.
Bluefinger, an album
reportedly written in
reference to Dutch painter
Herman Brood, will be
released under Black's Black
Francis moniker. The album's
first single, "Threshold
Apprehension," will drop as a
digital download beginning May 7. On May 25, the single will be released
as a limited edition seven-inch single.
>> Listen to Frank Black on Napster
On the Web:
frankblack.net
Talk: Will the Pixies ever release a new album?
Frank Black / photo by Eric Nowels
http://www.caughtinthecrossfire.com/music/news/3637
Two Frank Black albums incoming!
Pixies frontman Frank Black has two albums on
the way he has announced recently.
Bluefinger is an album inspired by the Dutch painter
Herman Brood, lated for a September release on
Cooking Vinyl and is to be recorded under the
Black Francis moniker that he used in the early
Pixies days. The first single, Threshold
Apprehension, will be available on May 7th.
The other album is to be a greatest hits album,
coming out in June, called Best Of Frank Black 93-03 and is being released as a narrative of Black's
solo career during the 10 year period.
www.cookingvinyl.com
http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/frank_black_francis/news/9694
BLACK FRANCIS ON THE
THRESHOLD OF NEW
ALBUM
Frank Black Francis
The Pixies frontman to release first
single from Bluefinger
Black Francis aka Frank Black has announced that he will
release a brand new track "Threshold Apphrension" next
month.
The single, from new solo album "Bluefinger" will be
available as a digital download on May 7 and as a 7"
vinyl/download bundle on May 28.
Talking about his new material, Black has released this
cryptic tale of intent: “Bluefinger: someone from Zwolle,
Netherlands … So I used a couple of Herman Brood's
painting titles for songs of my own for my new record
Bluefinger. Herman Brood, the great Dutch rocker, painter,
and famous junkie, who completed his journey in that great
rock and roll suicide when he jumped off the Amsterdam
Hilton a few years ago, was born in Zwolle."
He continues: "Up there on the hill, above the cows, Herman
Brood descended and for 54 years lived and walked among
us. I have my own impressions as to what his painting Threshold Apprehension was all about. My song
Threshold Apprehension has nothing to do with the painting except that it, and my record Bluefinger,
has everything to do with my impressions of Herman Brood.”
Meanwhile, Black is also working on new Pixies material. In an announcement last Autumn, the group
were scheduled to start rehearsals and recording at the start of January.
The solo project "Bluefinger" by his Black Francis alter-ego will be released in the UK in September.
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| coastline |
Posted - 04/13/2007 : 15:47:04
Good find, Daisy. Is there a Captain Pasty painting somewhere too, you think?
Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 04/13/2007 : 15:38:15
Thanks, as long as I don't have the worst linking skills eva. That's all that matters.
Here's a shorter link with Test Pilot Blues on it. http://www.galeries.nl/mnkunstenaar.asp?artistnr=9&vane=1&em=&meer=&sessionti=949770852
bluefinger |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 04/13/2007 : 15:37:02
worst linking skillz ever
"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands." - Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 04/13/2007 : 15:33:26
Looks like Test Pilot Blues is, too. http://www.marktplaats.nl/index.php?sref=http%3A//www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Dtest+pilot+blues+and+herman+brood&url=http%3A//antiek-kunst.marktplaats.nl/kunst-litho-s-en-zeefdrukken/81301549-zeefdruk-herman-brood-test-pilot-blues.html%3Fxref%3D1
bluefinger |
| floop |
Posted - 04/13/2007 : 15:24:31
looks like Threshold Apprehension is one
jamming good with Weird and Gilly |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 04/13/2007 : 15:15:54
Thanks Ziggy! I wonder what painting names fb used as song titles.
bluefinger |
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