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the echo and echoplex (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
[ January 6, 2009; 8:30 pm to 11:55 pm. ] Les Blanks || Listen || Watch Los Angeles indie trio Les Blanks brings the bravado in droves with this most recent LP, Shoot the Horse, a sing/speak-styled effort vocally reminiscent of Fu Manchu’s Scott Hill or Frank Black of Pixies fame. After trademark issues sprang up over the band’s original name, Muso, the group settled on naming itself [...]
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PopWreckoning (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
Not so hot on the heels of their breakout Ships, Danielson has released this compilation of the best of their pre-Ships output. If Ships piqued your curiosity but you never went back and sifted through their 10 years of back catalog, then this might be the place to start. There is no way around it, Danielson [...]
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Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 12/16/2008
Filed under: News , Exclusive Spinner.com : On Art Brut's early favorite 'Moving to L.A.,' frontman Eddie Argos dreamed of drinking 'Hennessey with Morrissey.' Instead, Argos is enjoying some Willamette Valley Pinot Noir with Black Francis, who is producing the British band's third album --... Read more
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local Cut (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
No, seriously, this isn’t just another meta Eddie Argos lyric. For a few weeks now rumors have floated around the web that Art Brut—the zany, rocking, and totally 100 percent awesome British band that splits the difference between the Hold Steady and Pulp—was set to record its third record right here in Oregon with Pixies [...]
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'Cross The Breeze (Free subscription) | 12/04/2008
Sometimes there are these websites/services that you stumble upon after following a link in search, twitter, … and for which you wonder how it is possible you hadn’t heard of it before? Recognize that situation? Well Fabchannel.com is such a website – I only heard about it for the first time this week. This time [...]
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Aversion Music (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
The Pixies' former front man is going to go behind the boards for Art Brut.
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AngryApe News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
The band draft in the Pixies legend for their third record
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prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
It takes guts to put “Rosa” in the title of your album and then lead off the title track, “OK Standby,” with exactly the kind of whangy guitar line that Joey Santiago would have laid down for the melody. The members of are apparently not afraid to wear their influences on their sleeves, a fact which is proven repeatedly on King of Rosa. Though those looking only for a latter-day incarnation of the...
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Bricks and Boxes (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Seeing Jennie’s posts at the top of our site gives me an itch to post. This is healthy, I think. So that’s enough Bricks action and enough Hip Hop, for now. Time for the crunch and jangle. I deliver to you more “random” video. — It’s Thanksgiving and many people are visiting relatives. This comes with its share [...]
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The Smudge of Ashen Fluff (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
The metamorphosis of post-Pixies Black Francis into Frank Black. Frank Black - Wave of Mutilation (Live, solo, 1992)(mp3) Frank Black - Monkey Gone To Heaven (Live, solo, 1992)(mp3) From The Dream Is Over bootleg.
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Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
If you can possibly imagine the Pixies plucked from the Boston club circuit circa 1987's Come on Pilgrim and dropped into a dilapidated shack in the Appalachians with only some banjos, fiddles, trombones, and makeshift percussion to make music with, then you have a pretty good idea of what to...
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3hive (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
I've been sitting on Mother Mother for too long. Please accept my apologies. They got lost in the shuffle that is my life, although I've been playing this track on my radio show for months. So I haven't been completely hoarding the goods. "O My Heart," the album's title track, recalls the Pixies in a big way, especially the vocal play between Frank Black and Kim Deal. I don't make that comparison lightly....
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PopWreckoning (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
On their latest album, O’Death does a commendable job of combining freak-folk with bluegrass and wrapping it all up in a punk attitude. Though the songs they write are consistently well composed and performed, enjoyment of the band will depend on whether or not you’re looking for a band capable of taking itself seriously – [...]
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Phawker (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Now playing on Phawker Radio! ROCK SNOB ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Pixies – Formed in Boston in 1986 under the credo “Husker Dü meets Peter, Paul and Mary,” the Pixies would, in a very real sense, end music as we then knew it. Principal songwriter Black Francis’ lulling verses/volcanic choruses formula would become the overworked template for ’90s [...]
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
LED ZEPPELIN rocker JOHN PAUL JONES has confirmed the band will embark on a world tour with a replacement for frontman ROBERT PLANT.
