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Lost Joins Shyamalan’s Pixies Lovefest
Last month, Listening Post questioned whether M. Night Shyamalan’s films have been cashing in on the cultural capital of the Pixies, whose noisy Bossanova anthem "The Happening" is also the title of...
View ArticleVideo: The Dirty Hearts Fete Music Theft
Austin, TX garage thrashers The Dirty Hearts would love to make money making art. But they not only understand why fans would steal it, they made a music video about it for their Stooges-like single...
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Boston Celtics Victory Soundtrack
On Tuesday night, the Boston Celtics thoroughly kicked the Los Angeles Lakers’ sorry asses by 39 points to win their 17th NBA championship. The defeat was so humiliating that Listening Post felt...
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Black Francis Opens for Stone Temple Pilots? Why?
When it comes to alternative rock from the ’80s and ’90s, the canon arguably starts with the Pixies and My Bloody Valentine and ends with Pearl Jam and Radiohead. That much has been debated and...
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Video: Darker My Love’s Fun With Space, Beards
OK, first things first: Darker My Love vocalist Tim Presley’s beard is hilarious. It fits his band like a flute, which is to say not at all. Secondly, you have to stare at it a lot in the spaced-out...
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Full-Album Concerts: Which Would You Pick?
After impressing crowds and press in June with sold-out, full-album performances of Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair is trying her hand at similar shows later in August. Meanwhile, New York’s September...
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Soundtrack: Large Paranoia Collider!
The wait is over, but is the end near? Who the hell knows? That’s precisely what’s bothering doubters of the awesome Large Hadron Collider, which powers up at last on Wednesday. So we built them a...
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Covering The Cure: Interview With American Laundromat Records
Can an independent label live mostly off of cover albums? Might as well ask American Laudromat Records, who’s got an arsenal full of them. From the Pixies tribute Dig for Fire to the Neil Young...
View ArticleVideo: Pixies + Dali = Antonio Banderas?
Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel’s controversial Surrealist short Un Chien Andalou messed with humankind’s head upon its release in 1928. In the late ’80s, it took aim at the ears, after inspiring the...
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The Happy Hollows’ Sarah Negahdari, Unhinged
She’s simply murder on the guitar, using a hammer technique that recalls Van Halen as much as it does Marnie Stern. Her band The Happy Hollows excels in amped punk, rock and pop that channels the...
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