We've only just started picking through Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks' Richard Avedon-referencing Real Emotional Trash, so it's still too premature to get Premature. Though we certainly did like the…   Read Story »

We always want more Pavement. That's just how it is. We were kidding when we said VH1's '90s list needed more (c'mon chillun, as if those VHvoters had ever been slanted or enchanted) but now, as if…   Read Story »

Wouldn't be a series of Pitchfork scores without at least one bearing little-to-no relation to the verbiage that followed, right? Well, day last of this year's P4K party in Union Park was another…   Read Story »

The night before the mainstream music industry self-fellated on worldwide television, the indie scene had a little backslapping of its own at Irving Plaza for the PLUG Awards show which, despite…   Read Story »

Stephen had a chat with Seattle's The Stranger, touching on northwestern bands, cities, and fashion styles. Some thoughts on the region's music (via LHB):What about Portland's music scene? There's…   Read Story »

Still no confirmation on a reunited Pavement headlining Coachella '07 (we can dream, can't we?), so Matador's giving us the next best thing: a 50 (!) track reissue of Wowee Zowee. B-sides, rarities,…   Read Story »

The A.V. Club asks Daily Show correspondent Rob Corrdry to do the iPod Shuffle...Pavement, "Stereo" Oh wow, I'm awesome. Brighten The Corners?I would argue, the best Pavement record. The Crooked…   Read Story »

This previously unreleased cut is from the new annual comp for the 3rd Annual PDX Pop Now! Music Festival, a free, three-day event taking place July 28-30, at Loveland in Portland. The double CD…   Read Story »

In Stereogum's neverending quest to tell you which indie rock song was in which network sitcom last night, we turn to Kris at PantryRaider. He heard some Pavement on that new Doogie Howser show and…   Read Story »

To celebrate the release of the deluxe edition of Pavement's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Domino Records is streaming one of the 21 previously unreleased tracks each day for the rest of October. Check…   Read Story »