LargeHeartedBoy — Signature recommended April's best books. The Ringer examined the legacy of the Pixies' debut album Surfer Rosa. March's best eBook deals. Sunflower Bean visited World Cafe for a live performance and interview. Anna Quindlen recommended books by cont... more info

Consequence of Sound — A brazen, genre-mutating foray that irrevocably altered the landscape of modern guitar music. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Real Simple listed the best books of 2018 so far. Reverb reconsidered the Pixies' Surfer Rosa album on its 30th anniversary. OkayAfrica recommended South African multimedia books. NPR Music is streaming The Shacks' debut album Haze. Tyrant features n... more info

NME — At a gig in Los Angeles Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo performed a special solo acoustic set last weekend, covering songs by Oasis, REM, Pixies and Smashing Pumpkins. Cuomo …Continue reading » The post Watch Weez... more info

Rolling Stone — David Bowie knew it was time for a big change at the end of his 1987 Glass Spider Tour, a grueling, overblown stadium extravaganza that baffled many fans and left most critics quite cold. It had been four long years since the huge success of Let&apos... more info

Chorus.fm — Pylons have just released their second album, Macro Eye Close Up, on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, and iTunes. Pylons are an extremely dynamic punk rock band, accessible to anyone who likes good garage-y punk like Nirvana, Green Day, Pixies, and Wi... more info

Guardian Music — With the news that D’arcy Wretzky will not be joining Billy Corgan and bandmates, should fans feel cheated that bands reform with their classic lineups incomplete? Related: Smashing Pumpkins announce first tour since 2000 When the late Mark E ... more info

Guardian Music — The Breeders’ singer and guitarist talks rehab, Pixies and caring for her mother with Alzheimer’sKim Deal, 56, sings and plays rhythm guitar with the Breeders, formed in 1989 as a side project with Throwing Muses’ Tanya Donelly. ... more info

Guardian Music — Kim Deal’s cult band – having returned to the lineup of their classic Last Splash – deliver an album that blends ancient monuments and crushed beetles into a spectral brewA sense of “What if?” hangs over the career of... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Mark E. Smith, the grumpy singer-shouter for the long-standing and influential Manchester, England post-punk band the Fall, has died at his home in England. The artist, whose angular compositions and skewed melodies inspired generations of undergroun... more info