Live Review: Pixies
It’s almost five years to the day since the Pixies played their first reunion show on these shores in this very venue. Scenes of near hysteria, like an FA Cup Final mixed with The Beatles at Shea Stadium wrapped up in first contact with an alien...
Pixies: Apollo/Alexandra palace,...
Tuesday, Manchester 3pm “It’s a really big deal for us to play with the Pixies . When we were putting The Futureheads together there weren’t many bands that we all had a great love for, but they were one. They seemed like a...
Pixies : Wave Of Mutilation: Best Of
Back in 1997, four years after the cessation of the Pixies as a going concern, a line was drawn underneath their work with what was judged to be as close to a perfect overview of the band's career as you could hope to get, 'Death To The...
Pixies : Minneapolis Fine Line Music Cafe
If you ever made a trip Stateside, chances are you never touched down in Minnesota. Nestled near the top of the United States, Minnesota is close enough to northern neighbours Canada that the winters are cold and unforgiving, and just east enough...
Pixies : Pixies
Anyone christened Charles Michael Kitridge Thompson IV to parents born again into the Pentecostal Church was bound to have a few things to get off his chest, and so it proved for Black Francis and the Pixies . Guitars strung with razor wire, they...
Pixies : Complete 'B' Sides
Paradoxically, it was the Pixies-inspired American alternative renaissance that sowed the seeds of the Boston quartet's destruction. Had Nirvana never happened - and 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' owes everything to Black Francis' sense of proportion...
