The Pixies studio catalog will be released in a pair of box sets in June, though neither will feature remastered sound and the bonus track situation is still up in the air. By Gary Graff The Pixies ...

Through his 40-year career as an opera composer Harrison Birtwistle has repeatedly looked at human emotions and frailties through characters who are not quite human. In his new opera for Covent Garden ...

All of the Pixies‘ studio records are being reissued in Limited Edition and Deluxe Edition box sets titled Minotaur that will be released on June 15, 2009. Rolling Stone has learned that the sets — ...

Whenever a new work comes to the Royal Opera House stage, thoughts tend to focus on the simple question of whether it is a hit or a miss. The general consensus in 2008 was that Sir Harrison Birtwistle ...

Award-winning theatre company Metta Theatre has released a cast EP and music video for The Minotaur. Award-winning writer/director P Burton-Morgan (The Rhythmics, HouseFire, In The Willows) and ...

Pixies frontman Frank Black has said that he does not know the details of the band's upcoming boxset. The singer-guitarist, who is also known as Black Francis, told Rolling Stone that he was not ...

There’s long been a hue and cry to call The Emperor’s New Clothes on Harrison Birtwistle’s music. I am disinclined to join this effort to debunk: one must respect and admire a composer of such ...

When Birtwistle speaks, the world jumps to attention: his new opera for Covent Garden has come heralded with all the drums and trumpets the media can muster. And what a perfect topic for a man past ...