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...grunge bands it inspired, it never seemed meant to last. Well-beloved but critically understated in general, the band was, for a time, the middle-child of indie rock’s late-eighties inception; robbed both of Sonic Youth’s extended-career veneration and the Pixies?? cult-pop status, Dinosaur Jr. was expected to produce a single masterpiece—namely 1987’s “You’re Living All Over Me,”—and languish into its prescribed stoner-rock loveseat. The alleged indignity with which...
...underground rock’s most ambitious, interesting, and accessible showcase of work—the showcase to which “indie” perhaps owes its existence—My Bloody Valentine’s “Isn’t Anything,” Pixies?? “Surfer Rosa,” Fugazi’s “13 Songs,” and Sonic Youth’s “Daydream Nation.” But while those albums all self-consciously operated around or even subverted the tropes...
...Chug beer for the entire duration of the two scenes in which amazing indie rock songs such as the Pixies?? “Here Comes Your Man” and the Tubes’ “She’s A Beauty” are used for montage sequences...
...Pixies?? 12-year exile from their native Boston ended last Thursday at Avalon with what had to have been the most anticipated show of the young decade. And they lived up to the hype…almost...
Fortunately, the crowd inside were witnessing a sight far superior to the modern-day horrors of Mick Jagger’s hip thrust. The Pixies?? entrance was somewhat anticlimactic, as there was no opening act (not even, as pre-show rumors had it, a magic show by Lovering), and thus no build-up to their performance. That’s not to say that they didn’t get things going quickly; rather, they took the Satanic Verses approach, beginning the set with the explosive “Debaser.” The song, the closest thing...