Last bit of digital music news, promise. Anyway, this bit's very exciting. The Pixies are making their first new song in thirteen years available via iTunes (in fact, it might already be there by now). Written by bassist Kim Deal and recorded in LA in Mar the track is called 'Bam Thwok' and will be available to download from the US service for 99 cents.
Deal has told reporters that the lyrics from the track came from an art book she found on a city street while on tour a few years ago. "From the handwriting, you could tell that this book must have belonged to a little kid. This kid had written a short story, a paragraph really, about a party that took place in another universe, about people and monsters that were partying together. That's what provided the inspiration for the lyrics."
On recording the new track frontman Frank Black explains: "Recording it was a nice way for us to break the ice after twelve years. The recording process was very relaxed and it didn't feel like twelve years had passed."
Pixies are back in the UK, of course, to play T in the Park on 11 Jul and the V Festival on 21 / 22 Aug.