Black Rock: The Best of Pixies — rollingstone.com

When Pixies arrived in the late Eighties, the group's sound — a controlled-demolition blast of razorblade guitars and from-the-gut howls — was so instantly epochal, it earned them such fans as Kurt Cobain, Bono and Thom Yorke. Here's a collection of scorching, sugary id-rock from Boston's trail-blazing noisemakers. To read the new issue of Rolling Stone online, plus the entire RS archive: Click Here

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