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...interest of not forgetting the songs they’d written, the band entered an on-campus studio in the middle of finals period to lay down a primitive demo. On a whim they submitted said demo to local nightclubs...
...soon found themselves booked for a gig at the famed Middle East club in Cambridge, a venue for indie up-and-comers from across the country. Klein also contacted the Ladyfest festival, a non-profit annual event dedicated to supporting women artists. Incredibly, Plan B’s simple demo won the five sophomores a spot on the bill this weekend in New York City, where they will be playing alongside musical idols like the Butchies, the Gossip and Le Tigre...
...memorably, by the Pixies during Mr. Black Francis/Frank Black’s original tenure with the group, none of the songs on the new double-album—which bookends the Pixies’ career Phase I—is destined to be a revelation. Disc One contains fifteen demos recorded by Mr. Francis (perhaps apocryphally) the day before the Pixies went into the studio to record their debut Come On Pilgrim; Disc Two offers almost as many remakes of Pixies songs recorded by Mr. Black just before the since-much-talked-about reunion. Disc One is, at most levels...
...from studio vaults to expensive bootleg collections. And the songs were fantastic: an organic sound, dense but airy, layered with intensely complicated but immediately ingratiating vocal arrangements and Parks’ beautiful, obscure lyrics. Some songs were finished; others were short, orphaned segments; some never made it past the demo stage. A small but growing core of diehard fans kept the flame burning. The advent of the internet meant easy propagation of the material. Finally Wilson himself, rehabilitated, married and finally receiving proper medical treatment, broke his decades of silence about the album and this past year pieced the fragments...
Until then, Salvatierra, a Comparative Religion concentrator, will juggle writing his thesis—potentially about “the relation of evangelical Christianity and right wing politics”—and working on recording his demo in Phorzheimer House’s recording studio. He speaks with humble conviction about his future...