On Tuesday November 14 the Duke Ellington Ballroom will be taken over by three men and a woman from Boston, Mass., the Pixies. The Pixies are currently on tour supporting their third release,”Doolittle”.

“Doolittle ” is their first major label release; featuring the college radio hit “Monkey Gone to Heaven.” Coming off of tours with Love and Rockets and The Cure, the Pixies bring a band from their hometown, The Zulus, to do the warm-up honors.

The Zulus have received critical reviews including one that puts them somewhere between Jane’s Addiction and Led Zeppelin.

The previous attempts by the Pixies “Come on Pilgrim” and “Surfer Rosa” were the elements refined in their third and most commercially successful release. “Come on Pilgrim” is an eight song mini-album released in 1987; it went to number one on the U.K. independent charts.

“Surfer Rosa” was the second release on 4A.D. records and immediately shot to number on the U.K. independent charts.

The Pixies have been on the recieving end of many compliments lately; “Melody Maker” and “Sounds” magazines named “Surfer Rosa”, their second release, album of the Year in 1988. Spin also named the band “Musicians of the Year”.

“Melody Maker” describes the Pixies as “a scorching, surging blitzkrieg of warped rock, voluptuous vocals and manic guitars.”

The Pixies are on a seven-city tour that started in Lincoln, Nebraska and ends in their hometown, Boston. Judging by the success of their latest album, the November 14 show in DeKalb may be the last time the band can be seen in a small venue.

“I want to command some faith from an audience,”says Charles Black Francis. “I want them to be intrigued, absolutely curious about who I am. That’s what makes music attractive to me, that hole you get sucked into when you really get into a song.”

“Sounds” magazine stated, “In six-months time, every right-thinking rocker on the planet will have realized that the Pixies are a band made in heaven, taught groovin‘ rock ‘n‘ roll etiquette in hell, and brought to us via the expressways and scary wide open spaces of America… This is a band possesed of melodic dynamism, an intuitive grasp of the guitar, and an eerily compelling way with words.”

Tickets cost $8 for students and $10 for general public. Tickets are available at the Carl Sandburg ticket office, Record Revolution, and Appletree Records.