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Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 1995
WE SHOULD HAVE seen it coming, really. While other leading practitioners of lo-fi American rock – Beck, Sebadoh, Royal Trux, The Grifters, Guided By Voices ...
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Pavement's Stephen Malkmus (1996)
Interview by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages audio, December 1996
The Pavement front man talks about the avoidance of self-consciousness and planning; their live capabilities; the recording process; his and Scott Kannberg's respective roles in the band, and the curious band dynamics; the seriousness of their fans; his move to New York, and the curiosity of a band where everyone lives in different places.
File format: mp3; file size: 51.1mb, interview length: 53' 16" sound quality: ** (phoner)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 29 November 1998
Messrs. Malkmus, Kannberg and Ibold on the making of the Terror Twilight album, working with Nigel Godrich, the ins-and-outs of the band... and the future of rock!
File format: mp3; file size: 60.7mb, interview length: 1h 06' 13" sound quality: **
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Live Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 21 September 1991
CURRENTLY THE focus of much cultish enthusiasm, Pavement exemplify all that's groovy and all that's grievous about American underground rock right now. ...
Overview by Keith Cameron, Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 4 January 1992
It's the dawning of a new earache! Jakki Brambles is playing Daisy Chainsaw! Your parents have heard of Nirvana! Geffen are chasing Mudhoney! Madonna's into ...
Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted (Big Cat)
Review by John Robb, Select, June 1992
WITH ENOUGH hints at the twin godheads of the Fall and the Velvets, Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted is an outstanding debut. ...
Pavement: Slanted And Enchanted (Matador)
Review and Interview by Keith Cameron, Vox, June 1992
Cracked Geniuses ...
Buffalo Tom/Pavement/Sebadoh: The Cattle Club, Sacramento
Live Review by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 13 June 1992
ERIC IS STRANDED alone onstage behind his drum kit. Sebadoh have been announced but it's clear that the rest of the band aren't even in ...
Pavement: Some Enchanted Evenings
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 18 July 1992
The post-Nirvana deluge of grunge guitar bands is threatening to stifle rock. Only a handful of genuine mavericks and freaks are holding out against the ...
Interview by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 14 November 1992
Their brilliant abstract guitar pop has lit up the year like a beacon of unpredictable genius and their new 'Watery, Domestic' single is another glorious ...
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 12 December 1992
Caitlin Moran lends an ear to music to heal the mind or mince the brain cells. ...
Sonic Youth, Pavement, Huggy Bear: Rainbow Club, Bristol
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 19 December 1992
SONIC THE HEADSHOCK 3 ...
45rpm Singles: Seven Inches of Pleasure
Report by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 4 February 1993
For bands and fans, the single is the new format of choice ...
Pavement: Surreally Saying Something
Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 20 March 1993
In America, pavement don't seem any more surreal than drive-in burger joints, gun-toting grocers and Manhattan cable TV. ...
Pop View: The Perils of Loving Old Records Too Much
Comment by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 5 December 1993
TODAY'S ALTERNATIVE rock suffers from a strange kind of nostalgia — a yearning for a golden age that one never personally experienced. There's a term ...
Pavement: R U Ready 2 Unrock?!
Interview by 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 ...
Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Review by Ben Thompson, MOJO, March 1994
THERE WAS MUCH wailing and rending of hair throughout the land at the news that Pavement had parted ways with their crazed 40-something drummer Gary ...
Review by Elaine Cusack, Select, March 1994
NOW BEFORE YOU START, just prepare to swallow your words if you've only ever seen Pavement as a band with a Fall fixation and a ...
Mind Games Forever — Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador)
Review by Eric Weisbard, L.A. Weekly, 24 March 1994
Pavement's fan-boy secrets from the corporate ledge ...
Report and Interview by Pat Blashill, Details, April 1994
Pavement practice the art of falling apart with wrecking-ball rock 'n' roll and an apologetic postmodernism ...
Interview by Elaine Cusack, Select, April 1994
AS AN AMERICAN, what do you think of the sex scandals that are sweeping British politics? Does it matter If an MP gets his rocks ...
The Road Less Traveled: Pavement's Crooked Path to Stardom
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 14 July 1994
FOR A BAND that is decidedly reticent about the prospect of mass exposure, Pavement are awfully good at getting it. In their earliest days, when ...
Cypress Hill, Lemonheads, Verve, Hole et al: Reading Festival
Live Review by Cathi Unsworth, Melody Maker, 3 September 1994
READING.It's like acid; once you've tried it you swear you'll never be back for more, and yet you always are. Perhaps it's because this festival ...
Pavement: Wow! That's What I Call Music...
Interview by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 15 April 1995
PAVEMENT are the Lords of Lo-Fi, the Sultans of Slacker. They hate Smashing Pumpkins and their songs are unlistenable chunks of abstract strangeness. Basically, they're ...
Pavement: Wowee Zowee (Matador)
Review by Mark Kemp, Rolling Stone, 20 April 1995
WHAT DOES a defiantly anti-corporate rock band do when it starts getting too much attention? In Pavement's case, they recoil. ...
Pavement: Wowee Zowee (Matador)
Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, May 1995
THINK ABOUT IT. A band works years to learn its instruments, play out, record, suffer the blows of fortune, regroup, play better than ever — ...
Memphis Sound Machine: Easley Recording
Interview by Robert Gordon, Spin, December 1995
Bands from Sonic Youth to Pavement have turned Easley Recording into the new lo-fi capital. ...
Pavement: Liberty Lunch, Austin, Texas
Live Review by Jason Cohen, Spin, May 1996
THERE AREN'T many Australian tours with Texas on the itinerary, but leave it to Pavement's Stephen Malkmus to figure that America's Western states are, like, ...
Pavement: Brighten The Corners
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 8 February 1997
OI, DAMON! Got that limited-edition, ultra-rare, one-sided King Kong seven-inch remixed by John McEntire? Whaddyamean, "No"? ...
Interview by Ira Robbins, Pulse!, March 1997
IT'S DECONSTRUCTION time again. Right now, there's a sophomore somewhere hunkered down on the floor of his dorm room, a cigarette in one hand and ...
Pavement: Brighten the Corners (Matador)
Review by Mac Randall, Musician, April 1997
INDIE CRED. It's tough to acquire, but it's even harder to hang onto. Take the case of Pavement, a band boasting a distinctive guitar-based sound ...
Book Excerpt by Ben Thompson, 'Seven Years of Plenty' (Gollancz), 1998
PAVEMENT HEAVEN, steps 1-7: ...
Review by Mark Kemp, Rolling Stone, 2 February 1998
WHAT DOES A defiantly anti-corporate rock band do when it starts getting too much attention? In Pavement's case, they recoil. ...
Nigel Godrich: How to Become a Hot Producer In Eight Easy Steps
Interview by Marc Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 21 January 1999
Beck, Radiohead and Pavement producer Nigel Godrich explains ...
Interview by Ben Thompson, The Independent, 13 May 1999
They're the masters of American underground rock. Blur kneel at their lo-fi altar. So why is Pavement's new album a homage to cricket and darts? ...
Interview by Andy Gill, The Independent, 28 May 1999
So the major record labels have got things all sewn up? Not quite. As the business reels under the impact of downsizing, the cottage industry ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 1999
NOBODY COULD accuse Pavement of being rock archetypes. Take the group’s frontman Stephen Malkmus, who spends much of his spare time flyfishing virgin rivers and ...
The Long and Winding Road: Pavement: Terror Twilight (Matador)
Review by RJ Smith, Spin, June 1999
Pavement turn down the noise and open up their hearts, sort of. ...
Pavement: Terror Twilight (Domino)
Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 5 June 1999
TO BE both catchy and unhummable takes some doing. Indeed, only the Brookside theme tune has previously approximated the concept. Pavement, however, are the dons. ...
Review by Ben Thompson, MOJO, July 1999
TERROR TWILIGHT'S penultimate track is a five and a half minute epic called 'The Hexx'. It begins with Stephen Malkmus taunting one of the swallows ...
Pavement: Taking the High Road
Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 1999
Pavement aims for wider appeal — but with just a few pop concessions on its own indie terms. ...
Pavement: Fluttering to Deceive
Interview by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 18 September 1999
Since lo-fi gods PAVEMENT have a passion for horse racing, we take them to the local William Hill for some gambling tips... But is everything ...
Pavement: Brixton Academy, London ****
Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 22 November 1999
A grave goodnight ...
Comment by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 27 November 1999
THIS SUMMER, I interviewed Luscious Jackson, the funky, friendly New York girl group, in a hotel suite de-renovated to resemble an adolescent bedroom on the ...
Stephen Malkmus: Invisible jukebox
Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, March 2001
Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...
Preston School of Industry: All This Sounds Gas (Domino)****
Review by Rob Hughes, Uncut, September 2001
PAVEMENT FOUNDER member emerges from dark side of the Malkmus to release solo project, whose name derives from San Francisco-area reform school ...
Interview by Pete Paphides, Observer Music Monthly, October 2003
In his continuing quest to improve the musical tastes of the stars, Record Doctor visits the godfather of British fashion. ...
Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: L.A.'s Desert Origins
Review by Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 25 November 2004
PAVEMENT MAY have been alternative rock's most notorious mess, but this deluxe reissue of their best album, appended with nearly forty extra tracks, illuminates one ...
Gold Standardz: Pavement: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins (Matador)
Review by Will Hermes, Spin, December 2004
Pavement's second album gets classic-rock props ...
Pavement Get Back On The Horse
Interview by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 29 April 2010
Pavement's reunion tour is a gamble in more ways than one — especially for its horse-racing drummer ...
Pavement: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 12 May 2010
IT'S A LITTLE odd to dispense your first thank-you, as the Pavement percussionist Bob Nastanovich did, within seconds of walking on stage. However, in the ...
Flight of the Conchords: NIA, Birmingham/Pavement: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 16 May 2010
Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie's anti-folk television duo are superstars of comic pastiche, now the Conchords show they're also top flight on stage. ...
A Trip To Oya In Oslo Via Pavement, Munch & MIA
Report by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 20 August 2010
IF YOU GO for a cigarette on the fourth floor balcony of the hotel, you see cruise-ships and boats flanking a floating stage, upon which ...
Common Ground: Pavement in Iceland
Report and Interview by Irina Shtreis, The Reykjavik Grapevine, 4 August 2023
The Reykjavik Grapevine attends the show by the trailblazing American indie collective. ...
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