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'Surfer Rosa' Turns 25

The Huffington Post | Katherine Brooks | Posted 03.22.2013 | Arts
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Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Pixies' second album, "Surfer Rosa," a seminal LP that has gone down in Rolling Stone history as one of the 50...

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Rock Is Most Definitely Not Dead

Carly Schwartz | Posted 02.01.2012 | San Francisco
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Carly Schwartz

You know how sometimes, watching live music, you forget where you are? And you can act like a complete idiot and dance and scream and sing along and get completely lost? The Pixies put on that kind of show.

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Should Rock Musicians Accompany Silent Films?

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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George Heymont

The bottom line is that if the music commissioned for a silent film does nothing to support the work being shown on screen, then a genuine effort should be made to hire more talented composers.

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