Subject: Pixies

• Cuts Like a Knife

  October 3, 2006

• Monday Music Junkie: Ween, Daft Punk, Grizzly Bear, Portishead and more

  October 15, 2007

• Monday Music Junkie: Futureheads, Hayden, Magnetic Fields and More

  November 19, 2007

• Monday Music Junkie: Black Francis, James, Animal Collective, Destroyer and More

  March 17, 2008

• Best Used Music Selection

  October 18, 2001

• The Pixies

  July 8, 2004

• Best Outdoor Concert

  October 7, 2004

• Trend-Spotting

  December 30, 2004

• Spidermums get Pitchfork love for Kim Deal cover

  Mum's the word.Even though we've shed some ink on this band, many of you may still not have heard of Spidermums. That's probably because they live in a dark, green-lit basement, riding bicycles and burning incense and never bother to play out anywhere. But they must be doing something right, for the group has developed a knack for getting mentioned in high places, such as NY Mag and most recently, Pitchforkmedia. A week ago, the site devoted a few words to them in a writeup about a a really st

  March 5, 2009

• Downloads

  February 9, 2006

• Our top DVD picks for the week of November 7:

  November 9, 2006

• The Download

  May 3, 2007

• The Download

  May 24, 2007

• The Livers

  January 1, 2009

• Mr. History

  November 27, 2008

• New Kids On The Block

  November 6, 2008

• Kim and Kelley Deals' symbiotic relationship is synthesized in the Breeders

  May 8, 2008

• Blood on the Wall

  January 24, 2008

• THE LEMONHEADS

  November 29, 2007

• The Lemonheads

  December 6, 2007

• Ladies’ Night

  A local showcase at the Hurricane brings out four female-fronted bands.

  November 22, 2007

• Ripper Offer

  Gregg Gillis doesn’t see what all the fuss is about.

  October 4, 2007

• Music Therapy

  August 2, 2007

• Jay Reatard

  January 4, 2007

• Grant-Lee Phillips

  July 20, 2006

• British Resolve

  May 11, 2006

• Prehistory

  April 13, 2006

• Nine Black Alps

  April 6, 2006

• Suburban Kids With Biblical Names

  January 5, 2006

• Morningwood

  January 5, 2006

• Aeolian

  Thursday, December 29, at the Jackpot Saloon.

  December 29, 2005

• The Girl Is a Ghost

  December 8, 2005

• Another Look at a Legend

  October 6, 2005

• Tortured Soul

  Kansas City raises Kane.

  March 24, 2005

• Smells Like Indie Spirit

  Music that made the world safe for the word "alternative" again.

  December 30, 2004

• Bronx Tale

  The Prairie Dogg finds the dirt on Mexican food, Swedish immigration and claustrophobic Canadian bass players with singer Matt Caughthran of the Bronx.

  December 2, 2004

• Dear Diary

  An intimate peek inside the lost journals of the Pixies' Black Francis.

  September 30, 2004

• Final Fantasy

  Forget the office football draft. Here's a far cooler way to waste your time.

  August 12, 2004

• Frank Black

  Wednesday, October 23, at the Bottleneck.

  October 17, 2002

• Imperial Teen

  Monday, October 21, at the Bottleneck.

  October 17, 2002

• BRAID

  MOVIE MUSIC VOL. ONE AND TWO (POLYVINYL)

  June 1, 2000

• Richard Lloyd

  April 30, 2009

• Get Up Kids covers and show review at Popwreckoning

  TGUK: 2 know is 2 love.A Get Up Kids superfan over at Popwrecking has posted two, MP3-enhanced fruitcake examinations of TGUK covering other bands, plus a gushing review of the Kids' recent reunion show in New York City. The Get Up Kids with Brand New @ Blender Theater, NYC Telling excerpt [sic]: "You could tell their hardcore fans were in the house since not only did everyone know every word to every song, but they insisted on singing along almost as loudly as the band. In fact, lead singer Ma

  May 6, 2009

• Indie Rock For the Well-To-Do

  The Pixies have revealed all the details regarding their Minotaur box set. Described as "the definitive Pixies collector's piece," Minotaur is curated by legendary graphic designer, Vaughan Oliver, who in connection with photographer Simon Larbalestier, created the album artwork for all five Pixies' studio albums. Oliver and Larbalestier have teamed up once again on Minotaur, to create their largest single body of Pixies work to date. The set will come in two versions--the Limited Edition and th

  June 15, 2009

• Revenge of the Fallen: Big Robots Fight, Shill Products

  I skipped out of work early yesterday afternoon to go catch the day's first showing of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Now, I know it sounds ridiculous to bitch about product placement in a movie based on a line of action figures, especially a sequel that comes as close to being a live-action cartoon as I've ever seen. Still, I got my knickers in a serious twist when I heard the new Green Day single factor into the movie's soundtrack. "21 Guns" pops up in a way that's about as obvious as a

  June 25, 2009

• Concert Review: Black Francis at the Riot Room

  Right after Black Francis took the stage at the Riot Room before a packed-in, wet, sweaty, capacity crowd last night at the Riot Room, I had a sweatlodge vision. Lo, I looked above the auxiliary bar and saw a floating bench, and upon that bench, clad in towels wrapped around their waists, were seated D. Boon, Elvis and Johnny Cash. A cosmic vortex spun behind them. As Francis began playing, one by one, the figures -- their golden glowing bodies shimmering in the steam -- presented their fists, t

  July 28, 2009

• New Roman Numerals MP3 available via Topspin

  Kansas City's Roman Numerals have just released a new song through the brand-new online music marketing enterprise Topspin Media. Enter your e-mail in the widget below, and a link to download "Go/No/Go" will be sent to your inbox (or possibly spam filter, as it did with mine -- watch out). If that wee widget looks familiar to you, that may be because you saw much the same thing a few weeks ago when we were blogging about the locally shot film 72 Musicians. That's because the di

  July 29, 2009

• Wired's 10 Space-Rocking Astronaut Songs

  Wired put up a list of 10 space-rocking astronaut songs" in honor of the return of the astronauts with the shuttle Endeavour. Now, while I can totally support their inclusion of the Pixies' "Planet of Sound" and -- of course -- Bowie's "Space Oddity," I cannot brook the fact that they include Billy Thorpe's "Children of the Sun" at the exclusion of Peter Schilling's "Major Tom (Coming Home)." If you're going to include one piece of musical detritus, why not include the one that sucks least? Al

  August 4, 2009

• Concert Review: The Breeders at the Bottleneck

  REVIEW AND PORTRAITS BY IAN HRABE Ian Hrabe​ I know at least three people in Lawrence who think Kim Deal is the most perfect woman on planet earth. This is completely understandable, and I may or may not be one of these people. She's been an integral part of two of the best alt-rock bands of the mid-'90s (Pixies being the other) and can write a pop song like nobody's business, which is even more endearing given that all of this started when she answered an add for Pixies reading "female

  August 11, 2009

• MP3: Relation, "Here Comes Your Man"

  Usually, I am not a fan of "dance music," especially the sort that comes with a pedigree that mentions London's Southend. Everything dance these days seems to be reaching back to Depeche Mode or some other '80s electronic act, and not doing it nearly as well, thus inviting unfavorable comparisons. ​Relation's debut album, Fear of Night, does nothing to endear itself to me, and invites all of those unfavorable comparisons. You can listen to the whole thing at Urban Torque's site. However,

  October 6, 2009