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In March 1987, Pixies entered Boston's Fort Apache Studios with Fort Apache owner/record producer Gary Smith to record a demo tape. The resulting 17-song cassette, later dubbed " The Purple Tape", eventually found its way to Ivo Watts-Russell, president and co-founder of the influential British record label 4AD. Pixies' manager Ken Goes was also the manager of Throwing Muses, who had become the first American band to sign to 4AD a year earlier. Goes passed Pixies' demo tape on to Watts-Russell, who walked the streets of New York listening to it on his Walkman and "absolutely adored it from day one". [7] Despite initial hesitance to sign the band, seeing as how 4AD had already signed an American band from the same manager, he was convinced to do so by his girlfriend, Deborah Edgeley, a secretary for 4AD. [7] Dolan, Jon (December 2008 – January 2009). "Pixies: Surfer Rosa". Blender. Vol.7, no.11. New York. p.86. Archived from the original on April 21, 2009 . Retrieved September 5, 2015. {{ cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link) The recordings which comprise this EP were taken verbatim from the band’s demo tape (often referred to as The Purple Tape). 4AD co-founder Ivo Watts-Russell had a history of bands suffering from a diminished energy when re-recording their demos, so he decided to simply take the best songs from The Purple Tape and release them as they were. a b Albini, Steve. "They Don't Call Him the Martin Hannett of the '90s For Nothing." Forced Exposure #17. 1991. Licensed courtesy of The University of Massachusetts Lowell and WUML 91.5 FM. Mixed live to stereo broadcast, 15 Dec. 1986, on the WJUL radio program Live From the Fallout Shelter.As of 2015, sales in the United States have exceeded 705,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. [47] Legacy [ edit ] The group that set out from Plymouth, in southwestern England, in September 1620 included 35 members of a radical Puritan faction known as the English Separatist Church. In 1607, after illegally breaking from the Church of England, the Separatists settled in the Netherlands, first in Amsterdam and later in the town of Leiden, where they remained for the next decade under the relatively lenient Dutch laws. a b Frank, Josh; Ganz, Caryn. Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies. Virgin Books, 2005. ISBN 0-312-34007-9. p. 84 Closing things out with the increasingly powerful “Vincent Van Gogh”, “I Used to Love You”, and “That’s All”, it was impossible for anyone to look away from the band’s undeniable magnetism and professionalism. If ever there was a set that was bound to generate discussion and the ever-feared FOMO, this was it, with RVG easily one of the most vital bands on the Aussie scene today.

Grasping the mic stand between melodic lines and howling the lyrics with a ferocity not seen by many local supports, RVG undoubtedly drew a sizeable crowd, with cuts from their forthcoming record Feral being interspersed with their more well-known singles. By the time William Bradford died in 1657, he had already expressed anxiety that New England would soon be torn apart by violence. In 1675, Bradford’s predictions came true, in the form of King Philip’s War. (Philip was the English name of Metacomet, the son of Massasoit and leader of the Pokanokets since the early 1660s.) That conflict left some 5,000 inhabitants of New England dead, three quarters of those Native Americans. In terms of percentage of population killed, King Philip’s War was more than twice as costly as the American Civil War and seven times more so than the American Revolution. The Pilgrim Legacy in New England Kim Deal moved on to focus on the Breeders, a project with her identical twin Kelley whose albums sound like abstract slumber-party music for teenagers with comfortable access to weed. Last Splash belongs in the Library of Congress, and their subsequent albums— Title TK and Mountain Battles—remain object lessons in how bands can remain weird without ever becoming alienating. The Pixies have now been reunited for four years longer than they were around to begin with, but are just getting around to releasing a new album, which they have called Indie Cindy. Worse than any of the music is the feeling that a band so deft at challenging the system has become part of it in the most predictable ways, rubbing together the tropes of their old art and hoping they can still start a fire, replacing experimentation with routine, filling Kim Deal’s place with not one but two different bassists over the last five months, breaking up the album into three EPs to gin up interest, and generally reminding us that artists of their stature are businesses, not charities. As 4AD was an independent label, distribution in the United States was handled by British label Rough Trade Records; however, it failed to chart in either country. Only one single was released, a rerecorded version of " Gigantic", and reached number 93 on the UK Singles Chart. Surfer Rosa was rereleased in the US by Elektra Records in 1992, and in 2005 was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.Dolan, Jon (December 2008 – January 2009). "Pixies: Come On Pilgrim". Blender. Vol.7, no.11. New York. Archived from the original on April 20, 2009 . Retrieved June 14, 2009. Albini met the band that evening, and they discussed how the next record should sound and be recorded. Albini said that, "[the band and I] were in the studio the next day." [5] Paul Q. Kolderie, who had worked at Fort Apache Studios with Smith, recommended the Boston recording studio Q Division to Albini. [6] This created tension between Smith and Kolderie, and Kolderie later remarked that "Gary almost killed me for the suggestion, he thought I was scheming to get the project." [7] Recording and production [ edit ] The Record: Unfinished Business". Capital Public Radio. 3 February 2015. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019 . Retrieved 16 April 2019.