{"id":807678,"date":"2020-05-21T08:27:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1001467"},"modified":"2020-05-21T08:27:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:27:44","slug":"pixies-black-francis-is-tending-chickens-and-making-tempeh-in-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/pixies-black-francis-is-tending-chickens-and-making-tempeh-in-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixies\u2019 Black Francis Is Tending Chickens and Making Tempeh in Quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cMusic\u2019s been canceled; you know, she\u2019s moved on from whatever party has been going on,\u201d Pixies leader Black Francis says when asked about the current state of his industry. \u201cIt\u2019s all canceled. I mean, Christmas is definitely canceled.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no official word yet on the status of the Pixies<\/a>\u2019 previously scheduled summer shows, but in the meantime, we<\/span> checked in with the singer-songwriter \u2014 who just released a<\/span> searing anti-Trump song with the Residents<\/a> \u2014 to see what he\u2019s been up to in quarantine, why he hasn\u2019t been feeling the creative spark, and what\u2019s been on his turntable during the lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are you doing with your unexpected time at home?<\/strong>
I never considered myself as part of the rat race or working for the man or anything like that. I always considered myself an independent artist. I guess, if anything, I\u2019ve been given some perspective that maybe I was kind of running around in the rat race a bit.<\/p>\n

So, I\u2019ve just been trying to learn how to grow things, how to build things. I built a chicken coop and got some chickens. Tilling my yard and growing corn and beans. I feel like I owe it to myself to figure out self-sufficiency. I know that sounds like a really incredibly naive statement coming from someone who, like a lot of people, their world is completely on the grid in every possible way, between cellphones and bank loans and commerce.<\/p>\n

I suppose like a lot of people, especially, you start to get older, you\u2019re like, \u201cOh, gee, I\u2019ll get into that whole gardening thing one of these years.\u201d And suddenly you\u2019re 50 years old. It\u2019s like, \u201cOh, shit, I haven\u2019t really figured that out.\u201d Now, I\u2019m sort of like, \u201cOK, here you go; here\u2019s your shot, dreamer.\u201d So I\u2019ve been learning how to do stuff. Learning how to make tempeh.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying that I\u2019m off the grid. I\u2019m certainly not. But I guess I\u2019m sort of asking the question, \u201cWhat if I did have to be? What if they unplugged the power tomorrow?\u201d I\u2019m not the suicidal type, so what am I going to do? I\u2019m not going to become a robber. Some people, they stick a seed in the ground and see what comes up. They maintain a chicken and make themselves an omelet.<\/p>\n

I really have no interest in playing music or painting or all the kind of creative things that I used to do. I\u2019m sure that the time will come when I\u2019ll return to those things and I\u2019ll want to do those things again. Right now, I\u2019m finding it very interesting to learn how to do things.<\/p>\n

What music do you turn to in times of crisis for solace and comfort, and why?<\/strong>
I would probably listen to Bob Dylan every day. Lately, for some reason, I\u2019ve been listening to the Rolling Stones\u2019 Let It Bleed<\/em> album a lot. I listen to a lot of turn-of-the-century classical music, like Chopin and Debussy. A lot of Alfred Hitchcock soundtracks. A lot of classical music, some Sixties rock, some jazz. A lot of Bernard Herrmann.<\/p>\n

Anything else you want to say to your fans right now?
<\/strong>I don\u2019t know. \u2026 \u201cYou need any olive oil? You need anything?\u201d The kitchen looks like a Pakistani bodega.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMusic\u2019s been canceled; you know, she\u2019s moved on from whatever party has been going on,\u201d Pixies leader Black Francis says when asked about the current state of his industry. \u201cIt\u2019s all canceled. I mean, Christmas is definitely canceled.\u201d There\u2019s no official word yet on the status of the Pixies\u2019 previously scheduled summer shows, but in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 17:32:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}