Pavement Archives - Rock and Roll Globe

Rediscovering Beat Happening On Vinyl

December 12, 2022 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.