A Few Thoughts on the Pavement Reunion
- story Peter Macia
When you google the word “pavement,” the substance that covers large swaths of planet Earth doesn’t come up until the seventh result. The band Pavement’s Wikipedia page is first, and Pitchfork’s day-old profanity-laced confirmation of its reunion is fifth. This should give A) marketing executives and B) young people a good idea of where the California quintet sits in the rock pantheon. As news of its comeback grew from rumored ripple to legitimate nerdwave (tsunerdi) over the last 24 hours and a date was set for a concert in Central Park almost exactly one year from now, one thing became terrifyingly clear: New York is not prepared for The Great Baby Riots of 2010. Pavement may once have been the musical signifier of young, scruffy smart alecs in cords and New Balances, but those people have grown up, have toddlers and will not take “no thank you” for an answer.
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Tripwire: Pavement and The Beatles Almost Give Lonely Dudes Nothing to Live For on Same Day
- story THE FADER
According to FADER Media site The Tripwire, Pavement reunited and a lost version of The Beatles’ “Revolution 1″ surfaced on Saturday, February 22nd, now to be known officially as Sunburn Day for millions of men who’ve sat in their bedrooms waiting for either to happen for decades.
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Q+A: Mitch Easter on Brighten the Corners
- story THE FADER
Yesterday, Matador Records released the expanded edition of Brighten the Corners, Pavement’s fourth album. We covered some of the story behind the album for the Reheaters column in the new issue of The FADER. For that piece we talked to Mitch Easter, the producer of the early albums by R.E.M. (among others), who engineered Brighten the Corners at the studio he had in his Athens, Georgia home. Easter gave us a great interview, but due to cursed word count limitations, didn’t make it into the final article. So instead, here it is, on the web!
Pavement Bestow Brighten the Corners: The Nicene Creedence Edition
- story THE FADER
We just found out you can get Pavement ringtones. Man, are we psyched. Get ready for “Heckler Spray,” subway riders! Oh wait, we actually also just found out the enormous tracklist for Matador’s reissue of Pavement’s Brighten the Corners, which once again proves the label to be the masters of remastering. The deluxe version will be out on November 17th, the full tracklist is after the jump, the Matablog has even more details, and Spike Jonze’s video for “Shady Lane” is viewable above.
Freeload: Pavement, Live At The Palace April 4th, 1994
- story THE FADER
Toward the end of our radio show last Friday, we briefly got real deep with some ’90s indie rock but somehow avoided playing any Pavement. We don’t know what we were thinking. Serendipitously, Aquarium Drunkard has a live Pavement bootleg from 1994. How many jokes can we make about the early ’90s? SO MANY! Instead we are going to make zero, because you know what? Pavement are great and some of our favorite albums in basically every genre came from those years and that is nothing to make fun of. Like, if the Grateful Dead weren’t our Grateful Dead then Pavement would be our Grateful Dead. Also, if you google Pavement, the first thing that comes up is the band, and that is a pretty epic achievement, considering, you know, ROADS.
Download: Pavement Live At The Palace April 4th, 1994
