Opening for the Pixies over the course of the "Doolittle Tour" will be Bad Lieutenant, the new project from New Order/Joy Division's Bernard Sumner; the Los Angeles experimental art rock duo No Age; Brooklyn-based music project Black Gold; TV on the Radio/Kyp Malone's solo project Rain Machine; garage punk musician Jay Reatard; and Denmark's flamboyant Mew. (Full schedule below.)

In addition, a third and final Chicago show has been added to the American trek. The Pixies will now open their Chicago run on Thursday, November 19 at the Aragon Ballroom with Bad Lieutenant supporting. Tickets for this show go on sale Saturday, October 24 at 10AM local time and can be purchased online at http://www.ticketmaster.com/

The "Doolittle Tour" launched on September 30 in Dublin, Ireland, and has 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."

On this tour, the Pixies will perform 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," "Here Comes Your Man," "Hey," and "Gouge Away."

"We wanted to do something special for Doolittle's 20th anniversary, said Black Francis, "and we thought this was a good opportunity to play all of the songs from that album, something we don't normally do at a regular gig."

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

NOVEMBER
4 The Palladium, Los Angeles, CA - No Age
5 The Palladium, Los Angeles, CA - Black Gold
6 The Palladium, Los Angeles, CA - Rain Machine
8 Fox Theater, Oakland, CA - Rain Machine
9 Fox Theater, Oakland, CA - No Age
10 Fox Theatre, Oakland, CA - Black Gold
12 Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA - Rain Machine
13 Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA - No Age
14 Hult Center, Eugene, OR - Rain Machine
16 The Fillmore, Denver, CO - No Age
17 The Fillmore, Denver, CO - TBA
19 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL - Bad Lieutenant
20 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL - No Age
21 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL - Jay Reatard
23 Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY - Bad Lieutenant
24 Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY - Jay Reatard
25 Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY - Rain Machine/early show, no support for late show
27 Wang Center, Boston, MA - Jay Reatard
28 Wang Center, Boston, MA - Rain Machine
30 Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. - Jay Reatard