Pixies' Frank Black will commemorate the 30th anniversary of his second solo album, Teen of the Yearperforming it in its entirety on a North American tour in 2025.
The tour will see Black joined by many of the musicians who played on Teen of the Yearincluding Eric Drew Feldman, Lyle Workman and Nick Vincent. The U.S. tour kicks off with a pair of shows in San Francisco in mid-January and also includes stops in Los Angeles, Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Boston and Brooklyn. Additionally, Black will perform from the album in Paris and London in February.
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Along with the tour, Black intends to reissue Teen of the Year via 4AD. He spoke about the anniversary and the impending reissue in a lengthy statement, which you can read in full below (via BrooklynVegan).
By Frank Black Teen of the Year 2025 Tour Dates:
15/01 – San Francisco, California, at The Fillmore
16/01 – San Francisco, California, at The Fillmore
18/01 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Orpheum
19/01 – El Cajon, CA @ The Magnolia
01/22 – Denver, Colorado at the Paramount
01/24 – Minneapolis, Minnesota, time to be determined
01/25 – Chicago, IL @ The Metro
01/26 – Chicago, IL @ The Metro
01/28 – Detroit, MI at St Andrews Hall
01/29 – Toronto, ON @ History
01/31 – Boston, MA at the Citizens House of Blues
01/02 – Brooklyn, New York @ Brooklyn Steel
04/02 – Paris, France @ Trianon
02/06 – London, UK @ The Palladium
Statement by Frank Black on the 30th anniversary of Teen of the Year:
“Sometime in the early 80s, I would have to look up the date, I enrolled in high school. This school held an awards banquet for some of the students leaving the school. I received an award called the TEEN OF THE YEAR award; my brother received the same award the following year. Our award was a $50 credit for textbooks, a TEEN OF THE YEAR medal (my mother still has it), and also dinner in the banquet hall, through and through. My brother and I had no complaints about the award (it was given for being an all-around good kid, as far as we could determine). But for such a grand title like TEEN OF THE YEAR to be given, I felt the glory had not been amplified enough. In 1993, I was doing “solo recording” sessions with Eric Drew Feldman in Los Angeles. We had decided to form a core band with Nick Vincent and Lyle Workman, occasionally joined by Joey Santiago and Moris Tepper. Although we had to change studios several times due to wildfires and actual earthquakes, the whole process was such an addictive musical buffet that Eric and I couldn't stop. We recorded some vocals in a studio rumored to be owned by Sergio Mendes; in the control room was a wall of TV screens broadcasting the wildfire slowly approaching us. Eventually, we went somewhere else. We never met Sergio, but we saw him perform a few weeks later when we went to Las Vegas after the Northridge earthquake, which had trapped the TEENAGER OF THE YEAR The tapes were stored in a studio vault for a while. Our zeal plus the empathy of our financiers, who watched our plight from London, was enough to keep the money flowing until Eric and I caved and declared “Consummatum est.” We intended to make it big. 22 in 62. I called it TEENAGER OF THE YEARIt’s now 30 years old and the original band will be performing the record at various venues in early 2025. 4AD has remastered the LP for a new release. Enjoy it.”
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