s tenure as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher exposed him as a charlatan, a liar and, above all, the showiest thing to happen to magic since spoon-bending. This, of course, was clear to see from his very first class, where he let loose a cage of Cornish Pixies, but it quickly...
“I had the most wonderful 42 years with The Gnome Reserve, including The Wildflower Garden and making little pottery pixies daily in The Pixie Kiln, which our visitors (adults and children) liked to take home with them as well as prints of my paintings – landscapes inhabited by gnomes, la...
The style of the video presentation comes from the need I felt to find a new way to show music being performed. The idea of the visual style of Music with Roots in the Aether is plain: to watch as closely as possible the action of the performers and to not “cut” the seen material...
After the listless 'Hours...,' it was galvanizing to hear Bowie sneering his way through the Pixies' 'Cactus' on 'Heathen.' There are other great covers on the record (Neil Young's crunchy 'I've Been Waiting for You' is a highlight) and some fantastic originals (the charging, slightl...
After the listless 'Hours...,' it was galvanizing to hear Bowie sneering his way through the Pixies' 'Cactus' on 'Heathen.' There are other great covers on the record (Neil Young's crunchy 'I've Been Waiting for You' is a highlight) and some fantastic originals (the charging, slightl...
After the listless 'Hours...,' it was galvanizing to hear Bowie sneering his way through the Pixies' 'Cactus' on 'Heathen.' There are other great covers on the record (Neil Young's crunchy 'I've Been Waiting for You' is a highlight) and some fantastic originals (the charging, slightl...
FRIDAY MUSIC MAINSTAGE, MEMORIAL STADIUM THE DONNAS Once MTV's pop-metal MVPs with "Take It Off," the Donnas became one-hit wonders when 2004's Gold Medal went largely ignored. The girl gang still rawk with the best of 'em, though, spouting mad trash at
Gong's "Radio Gnome Invisible" trilogy is lovably looney, with frontman Daevid Allen constructing a cosmic hippie universe populated by pothead pixies and flying teapots. On the final installment,You, the band matches that mood with a weed-baked smile, soundtracking warped pop tunes and space-...
"I did speak to him about it at a club in New York... We had never really met before, other than just kind of meeting backstage at the show in Seattle at the arena where I gave him the demo tape," the guitarist recalled. "I can't remember what was on it," he continued. "...
Slipper sneak on one by one like techno pixies, determined to unleash strangeness. Percussionist Jym Darling, resplendent in silver top hat and silver evening jacket, even appears to be playing an electronic potter's wheel. Later, a man in a white lab coat carrying a glass of red wine will...