and by phone at 1-800-745-3000. CLEVELAND, Ohio - It's kind of accepted in alt-rock circles: If it hadn't been for the Pixies, we might never have seen a Nirvana or several other bands of that ilk.

“It would have been great to be one of those million-notes-a-second guys like Blackmore or Eddie Van Halen, but I loved how George Harrison could add so much to a song without all the ego stuff” When ...

The operative word regarding The Pixies is "influence". Kurt Cobain said that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was his attempt to write a Pixies song, while Radiohead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist ...

Grunge — or whatever you want to call the edgy, grinding, guitar-driven early ‘90s alt-rock — would have happened without the Pixies. As the ‘80s came to a close, something raw began to snarl out in ...