Here Comes Your Band; After a 12-year hiatus, the wild, seminal Pixies reunite.(Concert Review)

Publication: Newsweek

Publication Date: 26-APR-04

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Byline: Devin Gordon

The late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain once said of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the most famous song he ever wrote, "Basically, I was trying to rip off the Pixies." A few months after Cobain copped to the theft, the Pixies broke up. (Blew apart is more like it: frontman Black Francis, a.k.a. Charles Thompson, notoriously fired his fed-up band mates via fax.) That was 1992. I...

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