16 February 2023
Band: PAVEMENT
Single: CUT YOUR HAIR – written by the band’s
mastermind Stephen Malkmus criticizing
the importance of image in the music industry.
Released: February 1994
Album: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – their second LP
Score: The single reached #10 on Billboard’s Alternative Songs,
their highest score ever.
Watch the comic video here.
PAVEMENT: Facebook
3 December 2022
Announced as “The majesty and mystery of Pavement brought to life” by the legendary
band’s label Matador Records, a musical of the Californian post-slacker-punk heroes premiered last Thursday in New York City. It follows this year’s extensive reunion tour.
Baptized Slanted! Enchanted! A Pavement Musical
only 3 shows are set up, but possibly more, depending
on the critics’ and fans’ reactions.
American’s lauded music website Stereogum send one of their
writers to the premiere. Check the full – not flattering – report hereE.
Then again this fan was very happy.
PAVEMENT: Bio – Discography
Go tiger, go.
Back in time
20 April 2022
Californian slacker rockers PAVEMENT, led by the team’s captain Stephen Malkmus released their much lauded debut album SLANTED AND ECHANTEDon 30 April 1992,
20 years ago today.
SPIN magazine wrote: “Who do these enchanted boys conjure up? Forces of nature like Captain Beefheart, Swell Maps, Pere Ubu, the Fall, Thinking Fellers, Union 282, Giant Sand,
and the Minutemen. But while I can definitely hear the echoes of these influences, what really brings these bands to mind is that, like Pavement, they open up space. On Slanted, Pavement makes things happen where nothing happened before.
Pavement takes you to oil wells and houseboats, deserts, and starscapes, a city spread out like peanut butter, no man’s land, and the place where summer ends. The lyrics fill the air as well, enigmatic and fresh, stuff about making mistakes, catching angels, listening to the radio, and waiting for your dreams to come shuffling over the horizon, waiting in a sunlight that blisters the soul.” Full review here.
Turn Up The Volume says: One of the best
demo-sounding albums ever. Vintage indie rock.
Highlight : Trigger Cut (live version)
Stream full album…
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UK/Europe tour dates 2022
PAVEMENT: Discography – Facebook
PAVEMENT: Discography – Facebook – Spotify
7 new firecrackers from the past 7 days
1. Forgotten by KORN (Bakersfield, CA)
This new single is vintage Korn. Uncomplicated nu-metal for everybody
who wants their ears to go bonkers. From their forthcoming, 14th LP
Requiem, out early next month.
Arggghhh…
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2. Won’t Stand Down by MUSE (UK)
This comeback haymaker is” “about standing your ground against bullies, whether that
be on the playground, at work or anywhere.” I was a fan of early Muse exploits (their 2004 masterwork Absolution still gives me goosebumps). Their stardom made them go a bit too artificial and predictable for my liking. But this new one roars hard with a metallic sound as big as St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Cast-iron!
Turn up the heat…
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3. UZI by BLURT (Gloucestershire, UK)
The late 70s cult post-punks (Factory Records) are back and their free-jazz-punk
firework is still intact. Led by poet/musician Ted Milton the mavericks groove as hell.
Message to all young bands out there: listen and take notes.
Let’s roll…
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4. Wrong Answers Only by THE STREETS and MASTER PEACE (UK)
The Streets‘ musical brain Mike Skinner and rapper Master Peace
joined forces for this easy-going hip-pop jingle.
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5. Be The Hook by PAVEMENT (Stockton, CA)
Not really a new track. It’s a previously unrealized song from their Twilight Terror
album sessions (their final LP – 1999). It will be part of a deluxe reissue edition titled ‘Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal’, out next April. More info here.
Get hooked here…
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6. Brother The Cloud by EDDIE VEDDER (Seattle)
Eddie Vedder has his third solo album Earthling. I could swear
that this explosive single comes from a lost Pearl Jam longplayer.
Here’s why…
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7. Love Is Selfish by JACK WHITE (Detroit)
Busy bee Jack White (real name: John Anthony Gillis )
gives birth to his 5th solo LP Fear Of Down in April.
Hear his acoustic lullaby track…
12 January 2022
Band: PAVEMENT
Who: Californian indie rockers who made noise from 1998-1999 with
5 studio LPs. They reunited some time ago and will tour the globe.
Reissue: TERROR TWILIGHT
This was their final album, released in 1999.
The deluxe edition is titled ‘Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal’.
Out: 8 April 2022 – all info and order info via Matador Records.
Content: The 45-track collection will include a remastered version of the album,
B-sides, home demos, rehearsal tapes, live recordings, and some rough tracks from
a session at Sonic Youth’s Echo Canyon studios. The physical editions will also come
with a book containing photos and commentary from the band. The LP version will
restore the tracklist sequence suggested by the album’s producer Nigel Godrich,
while the CD will retain the band’s final track order.
Along the announcement comes previously unreleased track Be The Hook…
Original album…
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PAVEMENT: Facebook
30 May 2021
Artist: STEPHEN MALKMUS
Who: The former Pavement ringleader. A successful
indie band from Stockton, CA. Active from 1989-1999.
They recorded 5 studio albums. Malkmus went solo
backed by different bands: Silver Jews (1992-1993),
The Crust Brothers (1998) and The Jicks (2001-2018).
Born: 30 May 1966 in Santa Monica, CA, US Happy 55!
3 big Malkmus moments…
– CUT YOUR HAIR –
(With Pavement – 1994)
– RATTLED BY THE RUSH –
(With Pavement – 1995)
– DEADO –
(Solo – 2001)
STEPHEN MALKMUS: Facebook
Top singles from the past…
30 May 2020
Band: Pavement (Stockton, California)
Single/EP: Rattled By The Rush
B-sides: Brink Of The Clouds / False Skorpion
and Easily Fooled
Released: March 1995 – 25 years ago
Album: Wowee Zowee – the band’s third LP
Happy 44 Stephen Malkmus…
STEPHEN MALKMUS: Facebook
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