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Music Review: Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 03:34 p.m., Thursday, May 17, 2012 [...] Kissing Families," from SSPU's debut 2005 EP Pikul comes straight out of The Pixies style of guitar-based indie pop, complete ...

Last month, Black Francis and his wife, Violet Clark, released Let the People Speak , their second album as Grand Duchy . Featuring a more electronic vibe and an old-school radio DJ introducing the songs, it's a much more developed record than their 2009 debut, Petit Fours . Spinner recently caught up with Clark and Francis (aka Frank Black , aka Charles Thompson) to talk about the album ...

The Pixies are giving fans a free download of their Coachella EP, which features tracks from their 2004 appearance

The Ramones ' '70s biography has been unearthed and well, it's amazing. They could have been dentists! [ Flavorwire ] Tired of belting out Journey ? Here are the 101 best alternative karaoke songs. Boom. [ Consequence of Sound ] The Pixies are offering up a free EP of songs from their Coachella set in 2004, an innocent time when technology couldn't bring back the dead. [ Pixies Official ...

When the Pixies reunited for their first show in more than a decade on April 13, 2004, hardly anyone could've known it would start a trend...

The Pixies are giving fans a free download of their Coachella EP, which features tracks from their 2004 appearance

Although Charles Thompson is known for many things, playing a supporting role isn’t one of them: He’s been Black Francis in the Pixies , Frank Black with the Catholics and invariably he’s been in charge.

"Tent City, U.S.A.," a documentary from the Oscar-nominated Steven Cantor ("loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies," "Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann") that premieres tonight, April 5th, at 9pm on the OWN network, looks at a tumultuous ten months in a makeshift settlement on the outskirts of Nashville, a city the doc notes has a homeless population 30% higher than the national ...

Summary: The debut album for the British rock quartet from Camden shows influences from The Pixies, Britpop, and '90s alternative rock.

Welsh trio The Joy Formidable is the gastropub of '90s-flavored indie rock, serving up familiar, meaty fare elevated by craft and a smattering of inventive elements. Stomping on a plethora of effects pedals, the band peppers the soft-loud-soft dynamics of the Pixies with the overdriven mel...

Singer Pixie Lott wasn't best pleased to find she had been trumped by Pixie Geldof for a front row seat at the Mulberry show, says Lisa Armstrong.