“Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson “You think I’m dead but I sail away on a wave of mutilation.” —Pixies, “Wave of Mutilation” Black Francis of the Pixies during the Doolittle tour, Chicago, 2009. Photograph by Charlie Clark. Are the Pixies old, or is the story of their music just beginning? I found myself pondering this question during last night’s sold-out concert at Hammerstein Ballroom, in New York City, which doubled as a 20th-anniversary celebration of the band’s indispensable album Doolittle. The Pixies played the album front-to-back, framing it with a few B-sides—some “so obscure we had to learn them”—and then capping the night with an encore of favorites from other albums. But back to the question. Physically, the band’s...
- 11/25/2009
- Vanity Fair
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