When the Pixies, the reunited stars of 1980s alt-rock, decided recently to play a special show in Los Angeles, they wanted to make sure their biggest local followers were invited first. So last Thursday morning, the band sent e-mail messages to 8,031 fans with Southern California ZIP codes, announcing the show and alerting them that ''tickets are...
JERUSALEM -- The announcement by the Pixies, an American alternative rock band, that they would cancel their long-awaited concert in Israel this week amid international outrage over Israel's deadly raid on a Turkish activists' ship bound for Gaza, had an impact far beyond the 15,000 disappointed fans. Some Israelis took the cancellation as an...
''Doolittle,'' a 1989 album by the Pixies, is an arty, violent, candy-striped record. It has surf music's reverb serenity, backed by cool and steady-drip eighth-note rhythm patterns. Its singing comes in babbles, yells and coos, its lyrics in drownings, bleedings and hangings. Compressed into short songs, those eerie elements become eerier still....