The Pixies: Death to the Pixies
Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, 10 November 1997
THE DOUBLE BILL looked great on paper: the Pixies and Throwing Muses at Avalon. Actually the Lansdowne Street club was called Metro then, back in '88 or '89. And the Pixies had released their Surfer Rosa album a few months before.
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