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Nappy changes and tantrums over Michael Gove: I took my one-year-old to a music festival

Last year, Ben Olsen and his wife decided to take a pilgrimage to a music festival with a tiny newcomer in tow: their one-year-old Nancy. A year on – after surviving Covid, exhaustion and fox urine – they’ve tried again

The Independent UK

The 10 best rock songs in The Bear, season two

Refused, Nine Inch Nails, AC/DC, Ramones... The most intense show on TV is back, and it's now even louder than before

Metal Hammer

Castlefield Bowl Sounds of the City 2023 - set times, support acts, getting there and everything else you need to know

Last year’s series took place in June and July and saw performances from acclaimed UK acts including Lewis Capaldi, Sam Fender, Foals, The Libertines, James, and Primal Scream alongside interactional groups Pixies and Crowded House

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Taylor Swift v Pixies: what the free tickets claimed by Australian prime ministers reveal about our leaders

A trawl through parliament’s pecuniary interests register reveals how the last three PMs spent their leisure time – and their wildly divergent tastes

The Guardian - AU

A beginner's guide to US indie in five essential records

From its punk-rock roots to its genre-bending modern wave, we trace the story of US indie in five key albums

Louder

Pixies to play Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde in full for the first time ever at UK/European shows in 2024

Pixies line up three-night residences in Dublin, Manchester, London, Amsterdam and Paris

Louder

Pixies to play Dublin's 3Olympia as tickets set to go on sale

The American alt-rock legends will play their cult classic 4AD albums Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde in their entirety for the first time, as well as other classics from their catalogue

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Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 4-10

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of June 4-10 include TV personality Bear Grylls, playwright-actor Harvey Fierstein and actor Michael J

The Independent UK

How Trompe le Monde proved that like most meaningful things, Pixies were simply before their time

Released the day before Nevermind, Pixies' fourth album helped set a blueprint for alternative music to come – not that they ever really got the credit for it

Louder

How Gen Z fell for and reinvented quiet-loud indie rock

Ed Power finds out why bands such as HotWax and Bleach Lab are so inspired by the sound of Pixies, Hole and Nirvana

The Independent UK

A Pixies song is accidentally turning off Google alarms

The company's Pixel phone responds to voice commands, and sometimes that can have inadvertent effects.

Fortune

Torture. Incest. Voyeurism. Why Pixies' Surfer Rosa is the weirdest and most influential alt. rock album of the '80s

Nirvana's Kurt Cobain admitted it, but pretty much every single alt. rock band of the past 35 years has 'borrowed' from Pixies 1988 masterpiece Surfer Rosa

Louder

Pixies at the Roundhouse review: the wild-eyed spirit and disruptive energy remains undimmed

A lean, mean run through one of the most fertile canons in the game

Evening Standard

The 25 greatest American rock bands of all time: Guns N’ Roses to Bon Jovi

From Red Hot Chili Peppers to Foo Fighters, we select the best of the American rock royalty

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The 20 best indie rock bands of all time

From The Jesus & Mary Chain to Spoon, here’s our pick of the world’s best indie rock bands

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for the Breeders’ Kelley Deal

Do you want to ask the guitarist and rocker about being in a band with her younger sister (by 11 minutes) Kim Deal? Or touring with Nirvana? Or shaking up the knitting world? Get your questions in now

The Guardian - UK

Pixies: Doggerel review – pristinely produced absurdism

The cult indie band may not have the dark fire of yesteryear but they still rock their twisted tropes

The Independent UK

End of the Road 2022 festival review: The most imaginative and exploratory festival of the summer

The indie gods themselves descend, making for a scheduling clash of the titans that’s by far the most frustrating of this writer’s festival-going life: arguably the two best live acts on the planet play opposite each other

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Manchester Evening News

Manchester's best underground gigs from summer 2022

In a new monthly feature, we've been out at the venues who have the stars of tomorrow playing today

Manchester Evening News

Pixies show off effortless craft and sonic beauty with surprise show at Band On The Wall

July 19 will be remembered as the hottest day of 2022 - and the night musical magic was conjured before our eyes

Manchester Evening News

Pixies sell out surprise Manchester gig in record time

The tickets went up and were gone in a flash

Daily Mirror

Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago has ditched booze for 'comfy pyjamas' on tour

Joey Santiago has said he's cleaned up his act after being a "functioning alcoholic" on previous tours with rock band Pixies

Manchester Evening News

Primal Scream surprise Castlefield Bowl with The Stone Roses special guest for Sounds of the City

The band also paid tribute to the late Denise Johnson, who famously sang on the Screamadelica album

The Guardian - UK

Pixies review – dark pop that still soars and thrills

Black Francis’s scream is thrillingly intact on a set of classics falling between 1986 and 1993, with only a hat-tip to their forthcoming album

Manchester Evening News

REVIEW: Alt rock trailblazers Pixies show they have plenty left in the tank at Castlefield Bowl

Your favourite band's favourite band put on a breathless performance at Manchester's Castlefield Bowl for Sounds of the City

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