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Throwback Thursday: The Pixies help define &#039;90s alternative rock - Daily Bruin

Throwback Thursday: The Pixies help define &#8217;90s alternative rock

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The Pixies are not a band you start listening to in sixth grade to impress a girl. They’re the band that you’re drawn to when you’ve come to detest the glamour and manufacturing of popular music, for the weirdly artistic sounds of a Pixies record.

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Throwback Thursday: The Pixies help define ’90s alternative rock

By Brendan Hornbostel

Oct. 24, 2013 12:03 a.m.