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The Pixies - Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering - have been confirmed to appear on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" this Friday, November 6. The show airs on NBC at 11:30PM ET/PT and 10:30PM CT.   At the special request of the show's producers, the band will perform one of their most beloved songs, "Here Comes Your Man," recorded for their classic 1989 album, Doolittle.

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the release of Doolittle, the Pixies will kick off the 22-date U.S. leg of their worldwide "Doolittle Tour" tomorrow with the first of three sold-out shows at the Hollywood Palladium.  On this tour, the Pixies are performing all of the songs from Doolittle and its related B-sides, "Weird at My School," "Dancing the Manta Ray," and "Bailey's Walk" among them.  Doolittle, the band's third album and the first to chart on Billboard's album charts, includes classics such as "Debaser," "Wave of Mutilation," "Hey," "Gouge Away," and "Here Comes Your Man."

The "Doolittle Tour" launched on September 30 in Dublin, Ireland, and played sold-out shows everywhere - Scotland, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and to 20,000 fans over four nights in London.  The "Doolittle Tour" has also received rave notices - five-star reviews in the [London] Times, the Guardian, and the Independent, which also said, "...no band has pulled off a one-album show as triumphantly as the Pixies did here with a 20th anniversary performance of their 1989 masterpiece Doolittle."

The Boston-formed Pixies have been acclaimed as the most influential pioneering band of the late '80s alt/rock movement.  Their five studio releases and six years together effectively blazed the path for groups like Nirvana, Radiohead, and Pearl Jam to rise to superstardom.  They disbanded in 1993 and launched their reunion tour in April 2004 when virtually every, single date sold out within minutes and fans traveled hundreds of miles to attend a show.  In post-Pixies years, Black Francis has enjoyed a successful solo career as Frank Black, Kim Deal went on to form the Platinum-selling band the Breeders, Joey Santiago started the band The Martinis and has carved a career as a music composer for film and TV, and David Lovering performs as a magician and continues to drum.  The U.S. "Doolittle Tour" will be the band's first American trek since 2005.

The "Doolittle Tour" will coincide with the release of the ultimate Pixies Collector's Set, Minotaur, which ships to purchasers in early November and will hit stores around the same time.  To find out more about Minotaur and to place an order, log onto www.ainr.com <http://www.ainr.com/>

With most of the shows already sold out, dates for the U.S. leg of the Pixies' "Doolittle Tour" are as follows:

NOVEMBER
4 The Palladium, Los Angeles, CA
5 The Palladium, Los Angeles, CA
6 The Palladium, Los  Angeles, CA
8 Fox Theater, Oakland, CA
9 Fox Theater, Oakland, CA
10 Fox Theatre, Oakland, CA -
12 Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA
13 Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA
14 Hult Center, Eugene, OR
16 The Fillmore, Denver, CO
17 The Fillmore, Denver, CO
19 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL
20 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL
21 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL -
23 Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY
24 Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY
25 Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY  (Two shows)
27 Wang Center, Boston, MA
28 Wang Center, Boston, MA
30 Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C.

DECEMBER
1 Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C.