Frank Black Music

Origin: Long Beach, CA

Decades: 1990's and 2000's

Inverting his stage name from Black Francis to Frank Black, the former Pixies lead singer/songwriter embarked on a solo career after he broke up the band in early 1993; actually, he began recording his solo album before he told the band the news. Working with former Pere Ubu member Eric Drew Feldman, Black occasionally heads into the ferocious post-punk guitar territory that marked such landmark albums as Surfer Rosa and Doolittle, but more frequently he plays up his considerably underrated melodic s... Read More

David Bowie, Iggy Pop, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Hüsker Dü, Pere Ubu, The Velvet Underground, Cheap Trick, The Stooges, and Bob Mould

Marcy Playground, Hole, Superchunk, Veruca Salt, Local H, Nada Surf, Eddie Vedder, The Presidents of the United States of America, and Urge Overkill