Video Roundup: Pixies, Morrissey & Nine Inch Nails

With an update on a Facebook saying, “ITS TIME !!! We have something new we’d like you to hear,” Pixies announced the new tune “Bagboy,” its first original song since “Bam Thwok.” The 2004 single went along with the band’s reunion tour.

“Bagboy,” is available as a free download via PixiesMusic.com in exchange for your email.

“The lyrics, coincidentally, were composed at a Starbucks Coffee in Harvard Square in Cambridge, about a hundred feet from where, 25 years ago, I composed some of the lyrics to an old Pixies song called ‘Break My Body,’” Black Francis explained in a statement.

“Twenty-five years later, some Starbucks in Harvard Square…I thought that was kind of interesting. The music for the song has been around for a few years. There are some demos I made with Joey and David a few years ago in Los Angeles, related to a film idea that still has yet to see the light of day, although work on the music continued. So a lot of the musical idea had been kicking around for awhile. It’s pretty simple, kind of a blues-based, two-note kind of thing, really.”

Oh, and by the way, Kim Deal, who split from the band earlier this month, is not the one providing backing vocals. SlicingUpEyeBalls.com notes that Black Francis chimed in on the FrankBlack.net forums to say, “I agree, it does sound a bit like Kim. But it’s my good friend Jeremy Dubs, one of the best people I’ve had the pleasure to know, both socially and professionally.”

Before calling off his North American tour because of illness, Morrissey played a special March 2 gig at the Hollywood High School Auditorium in California. The show, which took place the night after he performed for 13,400 fans at the Staples Center, is the subject of the British singer’s new concert film – “Morrissey 25: Live” – coming to cinemas worldwide in August.

According to fan site True To You, the film will be the first authorized live Morrissey DVD in 9 years. The movie’s title celebrates the former Smiths frontman’s 25th year as a solo artist.

Digital broadcast company SpectiCast describes the film as “honest and intimate, displaying Morrissey in a moment in time as never before. This is the ultimate fan film in a unique setting, selected and over seen by Morrissey himself.”

Over at Nine Inch Nails’ website, the band wished fans a very happy Friday by showing off its new video for “Come Back Haunted,” directed by David Lynch. The tune hails from NIN’s new album, Hesitation Marks, which is due out Sept. 3.  

You can get a download of the song right away by pre-ordering Hesitation Marks through NIN.com or iTunes.

Before you hit play on the video, there is a warning that says, “This video has been identified to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.”