Pavement: R U Ready 2 Unrock?!
Everett True, Melody Maker, 12 February 1994
PAVEMENT have mutated from being the weirdest band on Planet Pop to the '94 version of Easy Listening Gods, Steely Dan. EVERETT TRUE meets mainman STEPHEN MALKMUS in NYC, invents the word 'unrock' and asks whether Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain is the album of the '90s.
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