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P!nk was among the people watching at home on Sunday night helping to lift the 78th annual Tony Awards to their biggest broadcast audience since 2019. But the pop superstar seemed more keyed in on the action in her own living room than the best and brightest Broadway stars dancing and belting across the Radio City Music Hall stage.
That’s because her daughter and sometime musical companion Willow had cooked up her own homebrew tribute to the Great White Way. According to E! News, In a since-expired video on her Instagram Story on Monday, P!nk gushed about the teen hopping up on the coffee table in the family living room to sing her take on the Tony-nominated Boop! musical’s “Where I Wanna Be.”
Commenting on the impromptu performance, P!nk wrote, “I like when she sings at me.”
In an accompanying Instagram post, P!nk shared snaps of Willow watching the broadcast with rapt attention, standing on the coffee table in their living room in a costume of her own design. “This girl is where she wants to be,” the singer wrote of her 14-year-old first born. “Dressed up in her Great Gatsby the Musical costume (which she designed herself) watching the Tony’s!”
It’s not the first time P!nk has commented on Willow’s love of musical theater. In October, she shared a video of the teen losing it after getting to do some choreo with the cast of The Great Gatsby musical. “I am happy as long as my kids are being their authentic selves, and they’re not a–holes,” she wrote. “I am happy as long as there is a light in their eyes. I am under no illusion that any of this is easy. Parenting, being a kid, being on this earth, any of it. As long as we are doing ‘almost our best’, and allowing others to be their true selves- then I think we’re nailing it. But having a theater kid? Ultimate dream slash best case scenario. And being able to take her and expose her to this artform that lives? Great Gatsby? Jeremy Jordan? She is obsessed.”
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Pixies have unveiled four previously unheard tracks, all written during the period when the band were putting together ‘Bossanova’ and ‘Trompe le Monde’.
The four recordings come from between 1987 and 1991 and are now available across all digital streaming services for the first time. They originally appeared as two bonus 7” singles included with the limited-edition remastered pressings of ‘Bossanova’ and ‘Trompe le Monde’.
Among the tracks is the Steve Albini version of ‘Dig For Fire’, recorded in late 1987 while the band were working on ‘Surfer Rosa’. The song was later reworked before appearing on ‘Bossanova’ almost three years later.
The collection also features ‘Punk Loop’, an unreleased jam recorded during the 1991 sessions for ‘Trompe le Monde’ and originally labelled ‘Punk Loop’ MSTR. Another addition is ‘Brackish Boy’, a track first written with Pixies before being rerecorded by Black Francis for his self-titled solo debut in 1993. The newly released version was mastered directly from the original album session tape, without any additional post-production.
The fourth track is ‘Go Man Go’, written by Black Francis and Kim Deal while the band were recording ‘Bossanova’ and The Breeders were working on ‘Last Splash’. The song did not make the final tracklist of either album, although The Breeders performed it live on a few occasions in the years that followed.
The track made another appearance in 2023 when The Breeders included it in the 30th anniversary reissue of ‘Last Splash’.
Pixies have marked their 40th anniversary throughout this year, including a UK and European tour over the summer. During a conversation with NME at Mad Cool Festival earlier this year, guitarist Joey Santiago revealed that the band were still making progress on new material.
“We’re always in the works. Same formula,” he said. “We have a break coming up in October and we’re gonna get together and piece more songs together.”
The band's latest studio release is 2024’s ‘The Night The Zombies Came’, which marked their first album featuring bassist Emma Richardson. They are also scheduled to tour the US with Queens Of The Stone Age in 2027 as part of the upcoming tour.
