Pavement (Band)

A Barbecue Run Through Three Boroughs With Texas Monthly's Daniel Vaughn

The beef rib at Mighty Quinn's is so big, it must be butchered with a plastic knife. It's not uncommon in barbecue states to do an extreme barbecue run that includes three or four pits in an extended afternoon of gorging, driving, sightseeing, and breaks along the way for bursts of healthful exerc ... More >>

Endless Boogie Don't Have Their Shit Together

The LES veterans are old, lazy, and the best Kraut Southern rock band in NYC

S.F.'s Sic Alps Scrubbed the Noise, But Still Want to Freak You Out

"I'm kind of like Ron Swanson -- I fucking hate paperwork." Mike Donovan, figurehead of San Francisco rock band Sic Alps, is grinning in the kitchen of his ground-floor apartment, explaining what he likes about driving a cab for a living. Along with the fact that Donovan usually works only a couple ... More >>

SUMMER SHARE

Beach House shack up in Central Park

The 10 Best L.A. Guns Songs

The "classic" L.A. Guns lineup, ca. 1989.​Today, Matador announced that it would be launching a new singles club and the inaugural release would be Stephen Malkmus and one of the bands currently calling itself L.A. Guns (more on that in a minute) will be releasing a split 7-inch on Matador wh ... More >>

Live: Sonic Youth Get Caught Between Bad Moon Rising and New York City

Sonic Youth w/Wild Flag, Kurt Vile Williamsburg Waterfront Friday, August 12 Better than: Listening to a playlist of the set on Spotify. Just before Sonic Youth played "Starfield Road," from 1994's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, at Friday night's Williamsburg Waterfront gig, singer-guit ... More >>

Stephen Malkmus

Stephen Malkmus

Paying Tribute To Archers Of Loaf: "Even If I Had Two Other Hands, I Couldn't Count My Favorite Archers Songs On Them"

​In this week's Voice, we looked at the history of Archers Of Loaf, the storied North Carolina indie outfit that recently got back together for a run of shows and reissues. Below, some quotes from Archers frontman Eric Bachmann that couldn't fit into the Voice's print edition; members of Band ... More >>

Matt Pinfield And 120 Minutes Return To TV; Will The Audience Follow?

MTV turns 30 on Monday. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. ​Back when he was a music-obsessed teenager growing up on Long Island, and long before he started the influential music website Stereogum, Scott Lapatine never missed an episode o ... More >>

Q & A: Chunklet's Henry Owings On The Indie Cred Test, Not Being A Hipster, And Paying Tribute To Jerry Fuchs

Ian Cone​The 100 Biggest Assholes in Rock Issue, The Shit List Issue, The Overrated, The Rock Bible--Chunklet mastermind Henry Owings redefined the 'zine aesthetic with his deliciously wisecracking, ass-chewing tongue, dumping on everyone and their mother while taking a little bit of time to e ... More >>

My 10 Favorite Concerts Of 2010, Starring Jay-Z, Pavement, And Michael Bolton

Stephen Malkmus, at the first of Pavement's 50 shows here. Pics by Rob unless noted otherwise.​The 100-plus shows I saw this year spanned from the Cake Shop to Radio City Music Hall, from Williamsburg block parties to Michael Bolton's house in Connecticut, the events that occurred therein all ... More >>

Ten Bands From The '90s That Haven't Reunited

Mark Ibold, still happier about the Pavement reunion than you are​So Chavez is reuniting, or whatever you want to call it. A Pavement reunion just dominated most of last week in New York City. Before that, it was a never-dissolved-but-certainly-largely-inactive Superchunk. In the past few year ... More >>

Five Pavement Songs They Should Pull Out For Their Last Night In Town

C'mon, Steve, indulge us.​So Pavement Week ends tonight, with one more show in Central Park. We all had a good time, though, right? Dredged up some memories? Sung a few half-remembered choruses? Got rained on? Made some money? (Actually, no, we didn't make any money.) And though the set lists ... More >>

Here Is Das Racist's Best New Music Acceptance Speech

​Yesterday, local role models and our friends Das Racist snagged the coveted 8.7/Best New Music designation from Pitchfork for Sit Down, Man, the second of two dense, drug-addled, deceptively smart mixtapes the trio has produced this year. It was a national vindication of what we've known in N ... More >>

Week in Review: Quarantine the Past

Later, dude. Photo by Rob Harvilla​In the week we threw up our hands and named all seven days after Pavement, we celebrated at the now-reunited and finally in New York band's first show at the Williamsburg Waterfront, pitied the plight of scalpers trying to get rid of their tickets, hung out w ... More >>

Scenes From Last Night's Lightning-Filled Pavement Show in Central Park

Pavement Central Park Wednesday, September 22 Well, if nothing else, last night's lightning-delayed, rain-soaked Pavement convocation in Central Park (only two more to go!) was a great opportunity for Stephen Malkmus to say a bunch of ridiculous, borderline offensive stuff about the weather. Upon ... More >>

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STONED DIGRESSIONS

Stephen Malkmus gets his wavy-gravy jam on

Brightening the Brilliant Corners

Marco Benevento plumbs jazz and pop, wild improv, and sweet melody

Autumn Sonata

David Berman shambles again, as leaves fall on the Pavement

Fantasy Baseball

A fan's notes: How the Yankees became the Freuds of Summer

'My House' Is Not a Home

Parisian robots and NYC hipoisie sketch for the tweakers

Put It All Down

Pavement, the unheard music—treat it like an oil well?

The Cultural History of Pavement (Hello, Mamaraneck!)

Cancer and Karma

Jackie Farry and friends fuck cancer; filmmaker Scott Crary kills his idols

Sex Pleas That Swing

A Beard-Rock Lover's Latest Great Odd Leap Forward

Cool as Kim Deal

Grrrl, Inturrupted

It’s Ladies First This Season

Live and Erect

Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action

Half a Life . . .

The Long Haul

Pavement Comes Alive

Getting Real