Pavement

Indie Rock Rock 

Richard Turgeon: Chasing Pavement

January 9, 2026January 12, 2026 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2025, Brighten The Corners, Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, Date w/IKEA, Mosswood Meltdown, Pavement, Richard Turgeon, Shungite

San Francisco indie rocker shares cover of ‘Date w/ IKEA’

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Indie Rock 

Fight This Generation: Pavement’s Wowee Zowee Turns 30

April 11, 2025 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1995, 30th Anniversary, Bob Nastanovich, Mark Ibold, Pavement, Spiral Stairs, Stephen Malkmus, Steve West, Wowee Zowee

Paying homage to the band’s seminal third album

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Indie Rock Rock 

Marcellus Hall Will Never Let You Down

March 11, 2024March 13, 2024 Brad Cohan 0 Comments Cat Power, Damon Smith, I Will Never Let You Down, Jon Spencer, Marcellus Hall, Mary Lou Lord, Matador Records, Mike Shapiro, New York City, One Track Mind, Pavement, Plastic Fork, Railroad Jerk, The New Yorker

The former Railroad Jerk frontman shines on his first solo album in a decade

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Alternative Rock Power Pop Rock 

At Every Speed: An Interview With Jody Porter

September 4, 2023February 19, 2024 Ryan Maffei 0 Comments 2023, Adam Schlesinger, Brian Young, Chris Collingwood, EP 1, Fountains of Wayne, Guided By Voices, Jody Porter, Pavement, The Strokes

An exclusive chat with the Fountains of Wayne guitar hero

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Indie Rock Remembrance 

Gary Young, Original Pavement Drummer, Gone at 70

August 18, 2023August 18, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments California, Gary Young, Gary Young’s Hospital, Pavement, RIP, Slanted and Enchanted, Stockton, Thurston Moore

“His enthusiasm for playing live music was relentless and unrepentant”

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Indie Rock Pop Rock Seattle 

Rediscovering Beat Happening On Vinyl

December 12, 2022 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 1 Comment Beat Happening, Beck, Calvin Johnson, Jamboree, K Records, Nirvana, Olympia, Pavement, Seattle, SEBADOH, Washington

Domino Records reissues the Olympia, WA pop greats’ seminal catalog on wax

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Indie Rock 

Inside This Leather Terrarium: Brighten The Corners at 25

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 Ian King 0 Comments 1997, Bob Nastanovich, Brighten The Corners, Fin, Geddy Lee, Magnet Magazine, Mark Ibold, Matador Records, MTV, Pavement, Shady Lane, Spiral Stairs, Starlings on the Slipstream, Stephen Malkmus, Stereo, Steve West, Transport Is Arranged

Looking back on the album that helped Pavement become a band again

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Indie Rock Music Journalism 

Steve Keene and the Art of Indie Rock

May 18, 2021May 25, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Band of Horses, Dan Efram, Jim O'Rourke, Merzbow, Pavement, Silver Jews, Steve Keene, The Apples In Stereo, the Del Lords., Wowee Zowee

A Kickstarter campaign launched by a longtime colleague will help bring this acclaimed painter the recognition he deserves in the art world and beyond

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Indie Rock Noise Post-Hardcore Post-Punk 

ALBUMS: Trigger Cut Turn It Up On ROGO

April 19, 2021April 20, 2021 Ron Hart 1 Comment BandCamp, Daniel Wichter, Germany, Mat Dumil, Pavement, Ralph Schaarschmidt, ROGO, Stuttgart, Trigger Cut, Unsane

Germany’s rising noise rockers create the primal catharsis we all need in 2021 with their explosive second LP

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Indie Rock 

ALBUMS: Krazy About Kiwi Jr.

March 11, 2021March 11, 2021 Ted Miller 0 Comments 2021, Cooler Returns, Football Money, Indie rock, Kiwi Jr., Pavement, Sub Pop

Cooler Returns is a monolith of craft and command, the most pleasurable and consistent power-pop to emanate from indie-rock in years

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Indie Rock 

Mighty Mouse: The Moon & Antarctica at 20

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 Ian King 0 Comments 2000, Built To Spill, Epic Records, Eric Judy, Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green, Modest Mouse, Pavement, Seattle, The Moon & Antarctica, Up Records

Why the third Modest Mouse LP remains the band’s quintessential creative statement

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Indie Rock Remembrance 

I Believe Stars Are the Headlights of Angels: Remembering David Berman

August 8, 2019August 8, 2019 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments Actual Air, American Water, Bob Nastanovich, David Berman, Drag City, I'm getting back into getting back into you, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, Pavement, RIP, Starlite Walker, Stephen Malkmus, Tanglewood Numbers, The Natural Bridge, The Silver Jews

The beloved poet, songwriter and leader of indie rock institution The Silver Jews was 52

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Rock 

Further Down The Spiral

March 28, 2019March 29, 2019 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Pavement, Scott Kannenberg, Spiral Stairs

On Hypnotized, Scott Kannberg provides another mesmerizing manifesto

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Country and/or Western Rock 

Artful Americana

October 20, 2018July 27, 2022 Justin Joffe 1 Comment 1998, 20th Anniversary, David Berman, Drag City, Pavement, Silver Jews, Stephen Malkmus

20 Years Later, The Silver Jews’ ‘American Water’ remains a profoundly surreal document of otherness at home

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Punk Rock 

Why You Gotta Ask? Why Don’t You Just Know?

June 11, 2018April 15, 2019 Raymond Cummings 5 Comments Indie rock, Matador Records, Pavement, Stephen Malkmus

Sparkle Hard (Matador), from Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, is wan, wilful, and winning.

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