Pixies Live: In Heaven
12 years have not tamed the Pixies' unearthly wails: Aidin Vaziri | It's hard to imagine a more perfect setting for one of the most anticipated comebacks in rock. Not so much because of the cool breeze or communal sense of expectation, but because a campus library stands nearby fully stocked with books on extraterrestrial life forms and conspiracy theories, required reading for anyone who wants to figure out what singer Black Francis is constantly howling about. But it was bassist Kim Deal, cigarette dangling from her bottom lip and dressed head-to-toe in Salvation Army garb, who opened the show with the chilling mantra, "In heaven/ Everything is fine," from "In Heaven (The Lady in the Radiator Song)." After a 12-year hibernation, the Pixies might look like a pack of wet bulldogs, considerably more bald and fatter than when they went away, but their music still startles.
posted by Aidin at Tuesday, September 28, 2004
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