Pixies are going back to Argentina. The band will play Movistar Arena in Buenos Aires on April 4, 2027, a date Rolling Stone en Espanol reported on August 27 through writer Martin Sanzano. It is the group's first announced Argentine show since their last visit, and it lands inside a touring run built around the band's 40th year.
Black Francis still fronts the lineup, and the pitch for the show is the full arc rather than any one record. The Boston group built its reputation on pop melodies pushed through abrasive guitars and hard dynamic turns, a formula laid down across Come On Pilgrim in 1987, Surfer Rosa in 1988, Doolittle in 1989, Bossanova in 1990 and Trompe le Monde in 1991.
That catalogue is the reason the booking matters. Rolling Stone en Espanol traces a direct line from those five records to Nirvana and Radiohead, both of whom took the loud-quiet structure Pixies made ordinary and carried it into the 1990s mainstream.
The band split in the 1990s and came back together in 2004, and the second act has produced its own body of work: Indie Cindy, Head Carrier, Beneath the Eyrie, Doggerel and The Night the Zombies Came. The Buenos Aires setlist is expected to mix that newer material with the songs people come for, among them Where Is My Mind?, Here Comes Your Man, Monkey Gone to Heaven and Debaser.
Tickets go on sale in two stages. A Galicia Visa presale opens on Monday, August 31 at 10am, and general sales follow on Tuesday, September 1 at 10am. Galicia Visa customers can also split the purchase across six interest-free instalments.
Buenos Aires has been busy with this kind of booking. New Order set a December date at Mandarine Park, and Foo Fighters have an Argentine stop of their own in February 2027. Every announced date we track sits in the tour guide, and more from the same corner of rock is on the hub.
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- Pixies play Movistar Arena in Buenos Aires on April 4, 2027
- The date falls as the band mark 40 years together
- Black Francis still fronts the group
- A Galicia Visa presale opens August 31 at 10am
- General ticket sales open September 1 at 10am
- Pixies reunited in 2004 after splitting in the 1990s
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