Frank Black has always enjoyed swimming against the musical mainstream, and new album Dog In The Sand finds the former head Pixie in defiantly offbeat mood.

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Pixies frontman Frank Black has been known to cover Norman's "Six, Sixty, Six" in concert, and it's jarring to hear Black snarl, "In the midst of the war, he offered us peace" over raucous guitars.

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In addition to Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, other artists appearing on Dark Night of the Soul include The Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy and Admiral Radley, Frank Black of Pixies, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Suzanne Vega, Vic Chesnutt, David Lynch and Scott Spillane of Neutral Milk Hotel, and The Gerbils.

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Frank Woods in both Black Ops games and Rich McDonald, who brought Commander David Mason to virtual life.

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After the color line broke in baseball, when there was still chiding by the fans and some players and there were already black stars like Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Hank Aaron and Ernie Banks, the black players were often isolated socially.

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Thirty-eight years after an infamous church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, killed four black girls, Bobby Frank Cherry, a former Ku Klux Klansman, was finally found guilty of their murder.

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In the international categories, the Black Keys won best group, Frank Ocean was named best male and Lana Del Rey picked up best female.

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Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is a former Black Ops agent from the C.

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Set in the late 1960s and early '70s, Ridley Scott's star-driven "American Gangster" positions Harlem's notorious drug kingpin Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) as an entrepreneurial self-starter in the black economy.

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