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Why You Shouldn't Believe Everything (Or Really Anything) You Read On Wikipedia, Part LXI Ben Sisario, who wrote a 33 1/3 book on Doolittle, wants someone to correct the user-sourced encyclopedia's entry on the Pixies, because he has evidence that the site has the year of the band's formation wrong—and, thanks to people still being lazy using Wikipedia as something of an irrefutable source, that misstated fact is being spread far and wide. "I want to make sure this is all on the record for anyone to question or dispute, because I fear that—Wikipedia being what it is—if I simply correct the entries without explanation someone would just change them back 10 seconds later." [CRIMES AGAINST MUSIC]

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Kim Deal To Pixies Fans: Tough Shit

Poor Kim's not had an easy time of it, forever demonized by fans (and sometimes even the band members) for everything that ever went wrong with the Pixies, despite the fact that Frank "Alien Control Freak" Black doesn't exactly seem like a peach to share a van with. And yet she may be the only one with the balls to stand up to the band's fanboys: More »