The Pixies are coming to Tampa: Saturday, May 9th!

I’ll let the Tampa Bay Times do the talking:

Did you miss the Pixies as they criss-crossed the U.S. these last two years? The band is ready to make good on all the spots they missed, so they’ve announced a new North America tour for 2015, which includes a previously announced May 9 stop at Tampa’s Big Guava Festival.

The Pixies will continue to tour with founding member Kim Deal. The current lineup is Black Francis, Joey Santiago, David Lovering and touring bassist Paz Lenchantin. The band also plans to debut some new Pixies songs for this time from material written in the last few months.

A fan-only pre-sale starts at 9 a.m. EST on Feb. 25 at www.pixiesmusic.com. (Use the pre-sale ticket password snakes.) General on-sale tickets for this run go on sale to the public Feb. 27. More dates are expected later, but here’s the lineup so far.

• May 5: Civic Theatre, New Orleans, LA
• May 6: Iron City, Birmingham, AL
• May 8: Shaky Knees Festival, Atlanta, GA
• May 9: Big Guava Festival, Tampa, FL
• May 11: PAC, North Charleston, SC
• May 12: Ovens Auditorium, Charlotte, NC
• May 13: The Norva, Norfolk, VA
• May 15: Louisville Palace, Louisville, KY
• May 17: Masonic Auditorium, Cleveland, OH
• May 19: Rapids Theatre, Niagara Falls, NY
• May 21: Flynn P.A. Center, Burlington, VT
• May 22: Brewery Ommegang, Cooperstown, NY
• May 24: Boston Calling, Boston, MA
• May 27: Beacon Theatre, New York, NY
• May 28: Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, NY
• June 18-21: Amnesia Festival, Montebello, QC

For more about the Big Guava Festival, go check out their site: