Here Comes Your Band
If Minneapolis seems like a remote locale for a rock-and-roll resurrection–why not Boston, the Pixies’ birthplace?–that was probably the idea. When you’re trying to scrape away 12 years of rust, you do it someplace only the intrepid will follow. But the way the Pixies sounded on Tuesday, they would’ve dazzled anyone anywhere. They blasted through 27 songs in 90 minutes, hitting hardest their first two albums, 1988’s “Surfer Rosa” and 1989’s “Doolittle,” and they played with the precision of a band that had never skipped a day....