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Photos: Pixies play 'Bossanova' and 'Trompe le Monde' at the Palace

by Tony Nelson

August 01, 2025

Pixies performing at the Palace Theatre in St. Paul on Thursday, July 31, 2025.
Pixies performing at the Palace Theatre in St. Paul on Thursday, July 31, 2025.Tony Nelson for MPR

Alt-rock legends Pixies performed a throwback set featuring two classic albums on Thursday evening at Palace Theatre in St. Paul. The show included a track-by-track dig into the band’s 1990 album Bossanova followed by 1991’s Trompe le Monde in its entirety. Kurt Vile + The Violators opened up.

Setlist (via setlist.fm)

Bossanova

Cecilia Ann (The Surftones cover)

Rock Music

Velouria

Allison

Is She Weird

Ana

All Over the World

Dig for Fire

Down to the Well

The Happening

Blown Away

Hang Wire

Stormy Weather

Havalina

Trompe le Monde

Trompe le Monde

Planet of Sound

Alec Eiffel

The Sad Punk

Head On (The Jesus and Mary Chain cover)

U-Mass

Palace of the Brine

Letter to Memphis

Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons

Space (I Believe In)

Subbacultcha

Distance Equals Rate Times Time

Lovely Day

Motorway to Roswell

The Navajo Know


In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song) (Peter Ivers & David Lynch cover)

Here Comes Your Man

Where Is My Mind?

Into the White

Photos: Pixies play 'Bossanova' and 'Trompe le Monde' at the Palace