Well, I'll be damned.....

(taken from pitchforkmedia.com)

My Bloody Valentine Return to Studio to Complete Unfinished Album, Shields Scores Coppola Film
My bloody waistline rejected outright by USDA
Ed Howard reports:
Well, first the Pixies announce they may decide to reform, and now this! What the hell is going on with the 1990s these days? We all knew the jig was up twelve years ago when My Bloody Valentine walked out of their final studio session. And I mean, okay, maybe reclusive frontman Kevin Shields has been just slightly more musically active in the past few years than he initially was after MBV broke up, but there were virtually no indication that any new music would ever be released under the MBV name. And yet, Pitchfork has now received word from secret sources that members of the band are presently holed up a Berlin studio, recording material for a forthcoming My Bloody Valentine box set.

The trio of Kevin Shields, Colm O'Ciosiog and Bilinda Butcher (bassist Debbie Googe is not present at the sessions) are reportedly re-recording five songs that the band abandoned for their 1989 EP Glider. The EP, released in between 1988's Isn't Anything and the group's undisputed masterpiece, the dream-pop landmark Loveless, was originally meant to be a nine-song full-length album, but the band, as usual, was took too long to record it and eventually caved to pressure from the industry and released the four finished songs as an EP.

The remaining five unfinished songs from the sessions were shelved indefinitely as the band proceeded to work on Loveless-- and with the group's breakup soon after, "indefinitely" seemed to turn into "forever" for those missing tunes. Now that could all change. The box set, which is tentatively due out this winter, is said to contain the long-awaited full version of My Bloody Valentine's Glider album, fleshed out by the new recordings. There is, however, no word yet as to what else the box set might contain, or even what label may decide to release it.

Meanwhile, Kevin Shields has also recorded some music on his own. Following last year's instrumental "Outro" on the UK compilation You Don't Need Darkness to Do What You Think Is Right and his producing/remixing/guitar work with Primal Scream, Curve, and others, Shields has scored the new Sofia Coppola film Lost in Translation. Four of Shields' score contributions will appear on the film's soundtrack, out September 9th on Emperor Norton (which also released Air's soundtrack to Coppola's The Virgin Suicides). The soundtrack also features My Bloody Valentine's "Sometimes" (from Loveless) and two new songs from the pairing of Jellyfish/Beck keyboardist Roger Manning and Redd Kross drummer Brian Reitzell.

The film itself, which will hit theaters in New York and Los Angeles on September 19th, features Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, and Giovanni Ribisi. Murray and Johansson star as two Americans who meet in Tokyo, explore the city, and discover the truth about themselves, yadda yadda yadda. Tracklist:

01 "Intro/Tokyo"
02 Kevin Shields - "City Girl"
03 Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr. - "Shibuya"
04 Sebastian Tellier - "Fantino"
05 Kevin Shields - "Golf Course"
06 Death In Vegas - "Girls"
07 Squarepusher - "Tommib"
08 Phoenix - "Too Young"
09 Happy End - "Kaze Wo Atsumete"
10 Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr. - "On the Subway"
11 Kevin Shields - "Ikebana"
12 My Bloody Valentine - "Sometimes"
13 Air - "Alone in Kyoto"
14 Kevin Shields - "Are You Awake?"
15 The Jesus & Mary Chain - "Just Like Honey"

Yeah yeah, my bloody who? I love Bill Murray and Giovanni Ribisi.

they're shoegazers, ya bloody wanker!

speaking of which, i need some new shoes.

this stokes me like nothing has in quite some time. and don't mind foldsfan, all the good early 90's music was before his time and still before his taste. i havn't even heard about the pixies thing - what is going on. not to mention the jane's addiction thing also. long live kevin shields

This is all very interesting...glad to hear kevin shields is musically active. This film seems so strange...mbv music, bill murray, self-discovery, Tokyo??? Hope it's better than the Virgin Suicides story, but I'm sure it will be just as pretty.

well here it is:

Frank Black Says Pixies Considering Reunion
We're gonna ditch the tagline here and just tell you to go read the lyrics to Caribou again, as more beautiful words have never been written
Ed Howard reports:
On the heels of the reissuing of virtually their entire back catalog, The Pixies, that most upstanding of classic late 80s/early 90s alternative rock bands (who I'm sure need no introduction here) may be just a few baby steps away from a full-fledged reunion. Pixies frontman Frank Black (formerly known as Black Francis, for those who may have needed to ask) recently said in an interview with London radio station XFM that the group has been getting together every once in a while to play informally.

Black isn't 100% sold on the idea; he told the station, "I do dream about the Pixies reunion... It's like those schoolboy dreams when you don't do your homework and you don't study for the test, but I'm at the gig and we're hanging out, but it's an utter failure and I don't know the songs, and hardly anyone turns up for the gig and people walk out. That's what I'm afraid of, that it'd be a big, big failure."

Despite Black's hesitation, he does admit that the Pixies "do get together and have private jams together, but not for public consumption." It's a huge step, considering the well-publicized bad blood between Black and second singer/bassist Kim Deal. It was this tension that originally split up the band in 1993, leaving Deal to form The Breeders with sister Kelley. Black's confirmation that the original line-up of himself, Deal, guitarist Joey Santiago, and drummer David Lovering still play together is a big step toward the band overcoming their past difficulties and reforming for a tour-- or possibly a new album.

Wow. That's interesting. I hope this reunion happens. To say that I would love to see the Pixies in concert would be a big understatement.