TAG: the pixies

May21

Black Francis – Nonstoperotik (Review)

Black Francis

Nonstoperotik

Released by Cooking Vinyl


For a time after the Pixies first split and he focused on his solo work, frontman Charles Thompson spun his nom de guerre around and Black Francis became the slightly more conventional Frank Black. Over the years as he (and for a time his band The Catholics) released a steady stream of quality music, the fiery abstractions the Pixies flashed were tempered by experience. Eventually his music found its way back to the blues and soul roots of American rock that were always buried beneath the layers of guitar ...

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Apr14

John Beaver & Thomas Radman Coachella Mixes 2010 (MP3)

In 2003, I moved to Los Angeles mere months before the 2004 Coachella Festival. As the line-up was announced—Radiohead, Pixies, Kraftwerk, the excitement was palpable. Then one day a few weeks before the show, a package arrived at URB HQ. In the envelope was a a bunch of CDs labeled John Beaver Coachella DJ mix. Those CDs took me all the way out to Indio for the first time, and every year since, I wait for the Beaver mix (now Beaver and Radman) to carry me out to the desert. Download this double disc set and let it carry you as well.

John Beaver & Thomas Radman Coachella Mixes 2010

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Dec07

Live Review – Stellastarr* @ Spaceland (MP3)

So, the story has it that songwriter Shawn Christensen (guitar, vox) became the default lead singer and frontman of Stellastarr* because the band couldn’t fill that role way back when they joined up in 2000. However, it’s a role he seems completely at-home in. At Spaceland on Saturday night, he was poised and emotive, and thrust his whole being into the show. His vibe is unaffected. The band could be playing at an even smaller venue or a huge one, but he would still exude his particular brand of warmth that only a kid raised on post-punk and the likes of Talking Heads and the Pixies.

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