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[all-rock-and-roll-is-homosexual]

Select Magazine October 1992/Pavement

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[guerrilla-operator]

[musicmags]

[martystlouis]

PAVEMENT!!!!!!!!!!! ive been watiign for them since i was 16 i couldnt even believe this concert happened right in front of me.

[therealasteroidfolkblues]

Little bit late but Happy Birthday to Spiral

[thebowerypresents]

Pavement Revisit Their Catalog on the First Night at Brooklyn Steel

Pavement – Brooklyn Steel – September 11, 2023

Like a special deal at the department store, Pavement are back, for a limited time only, returning to Brooklyn for four nights at Brooklyn Steel this week. The run opened on Monday, the band taking the stage to “Keep Your Hands to Yourself” by the Georgia Satellites, which seemed to make sense, the packed crowd giddy with excitement as Pavement kicked into the instrumental “Heckler Spray” and then “Feed ’Em to the (Linden) Lions.” Each song more than 30 years old but felt as fresh as ever, the band — six members strong — bathed in red light, double guitars and double drums causing spastic energy as frenetic projections flickered on the screen behind them.

The tone was set for the night as Pavement wandered up and down the proverbial aisles of their catalog, relaying messages from the past and reminding the present that the reason their material is so relevant is because it remains so influential to many current artists. “Starlings of the Slipstream” was an early highlight, a symphony of electric guitars, heavy and light at the same time, thrilling the old-guard fans. Frontman Stephen Malkmus was vibrant in his singing and his guitar playing, characteristically drawing out some syllables here, shortening others there, creating rhythms in his vocals on classic Pavement songs like “Gold Soundz,” psychedelic meeting indie meeting punk, guitar chords going longer or shorter to match.

The set mimicked the variety and nonlinearity, some tunes feeling too short, finished before they could get going, others, like “Folk Jam,” stretched into extended off-kilter screeches of guitar to match Malkmus’s surrealistic imagery. The evolution of Pavement’s sound suffused the set decades after the fact: The raging energy of “Serpentine Pad,” the woozy rhythms of “The Hexx,” the fractured blues of “Fight This Generation.” The show’s energy waxed and waned, building to a nifty extended noodle section in “Type Slowly,” and then fading out with the set-closing “Major Leagues.” The band returned for a three-song encore, punctuated by the punchy, melancholy slow-burn of “Stop Breathin.” But wait, there’s more: Three additional chances to catch Pavement in Brooklyn before they’re gone again. —A. Stein | @Neddyo

(Pavement play Brooklyn Steel again tonight, tomorrow and Thursday.)

Photos courtesy of Dana Distortion | distortionpix.com

[malkments]

Video transcript:

Stephen Malkmus: I'll just keep on doing the coffee shop stuff. You sing it, though, because my singing's- it's not appropriate, and it's your song. It's hard- you don't wanna sing another person's song.

Scott Kannberg: But I like when you sing my songs.

Stephen Malkmus: Yeah, cause you don't have to sing.

Scott Kannberg: [laughs]

loladamusica, 1997

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Pavement

Stephen Malkmus, Scott Kannberg, Mark Ibold, Steve West, Bob Nastanovich

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Spiral Stairs :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

How often do I post pictures of myself on this thing? Virtually never. But this one feels appropriate — me and Scott "Spiral Stairs" Kannberg last September after Pavement's triumphant show in Denver. A fun night, to say the least. Scott passed along Medley Attack, the latest Spiral Stairs LP, to me and I've been jamming it ever since — I think it's probably the best record he's made!

So, with a quick west coast tour imminent, I thought it'd be a good time to talk to him for Aquarium Drunkard. You can read the results of our conversation now! We cover all kinds of topics, including Pavement's past, present and future. And prehistory! At the Denver after-show, Scott mentioned he had unearthed some tapes of Bag O' Bones, a pre-Pavement band featuring him and Stephen Malkmus. "It’s cool, it’s like R.E.M. meets Echo and the Bunnymen meets Captain Beefheart." Hell yeah, let's get this stuff released!!

Pic: Chris Gregori

[rastronomicals]

Scott Kannberg

[top500]

#434 Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)

Coming in with a very textbook indie album for you today. That's not to say this work isn't original or creative, but it frames the alt and indie scene of the 90's well. From what I can gather, the post punk 90's were all about slow and sad rock songs with slow and sad intentions. This is the second of five albums released by Pavement which ended up being their most popular album and contained some of their more well know tracks like Cut your hair and Range life. My initial reactions to this album is that it's firmly in the depressive, question everything, what is my life worth?, type of music. Even when the music is upbeat, the lyrics and vocal style are usually talking about how shitty it is to be where we are right now, and how cool it would be to be anywhere else in the world. This is a sentiment I think a lot of teens and pre teens go through, at least in the US where I grew up and still live. Some of the reviews and critiques of the album and the band focus on them complaining about teenage problems specifically but I think that's a cleaver way for the band to bring more existentialist topics into their music.

The most popular song on this album is Cut your hair which pokes fun at the importance of image in the music industry. I can't think of a more 90's indie band thing to do than make a song that makes fun of the industry that you are a part of. Not only that but it's done in a sarcastic and ironic way that you would only expect a group of lanky white dudes from California to be able to pull off. We do get a good display of lead guitarist Scott Kannberg's style in songs like 5-4=Unity and Stop Breathin' (could there be a more emo name to a song???) which in my mind blends popular rock styles like Red Hot Chilli Peppers with nods to slower and more introspective groups like maybe The Pixies. I've gotta say that this is a pretty well rounded album for a 90's indie band. They paint an immensely clear picture of who they are and what their mission is. I wasn't even alive when this album came out but from what I can gather about the early 90's is that the new generation of people was not super excited about the future that had been laid out for them by their parents and grandparents and the best way to solve it was to get angsty and get loud.

Give it a listen, see what you think.

[musicmags]

[martystlouis]

in the mouth a desert 🥺🙏🏻

[mitjalovse]

Nigel Godrich has worked on many different albums, but I think his work on Terror Twilight remains one of the most controversial ones. However, the latter did not occur thanks to the content of the LP, no, the disc became a point of contention thanks to what the record did to Pavement. Terror Twilight ended up as the group's swan song despite not being intended as such. Some have tried to put the blame on Godrich, though I would claim he finally made them sound good. Their laissez-faire approach did not mix well with Godrich's methods, but I believe the battle between the two principles gives the platter a certain what-is-going-on vibe. While they had such a thing before, Terror Twilight transformed this into a system. One wishes they would've continued afterwards...  

[destinyisstupid]

Unseen Power of the Hills Hoist 

[mxdwn]

Scott Kannberg Says Pavement will Go on a “Real Tour” in September

https://music.mxdwn.com/2021/04/04/news/scott-kannberg-says-pavement-will-go-on-a-real-tour-in-september/