Pavement

To Chop And Change: Pavement’s Wowee Zowee 30 Years On

Lesley Chow dissects the (semi-) serious intent behind Stephen Malkmus' nonsensical rhymes on Pavement's 3rd album which was positioned as the "logical end-point of rock". This feature was originally published in 2020 to mark the album's 25th anniversary

Embracing Imperfection: Sauna Youth On Not Quitting The Day Jobs

The hard-grafting London punk four-piece all work full-time, they tell Jamie Ryder, but they’ve found the time to record a thrilling new full-length and play Thurston Moore’s birthday, among other things. Sauna Youth portrait by Owen Richards

Rhyme Over Reason: Pavement′s Brighten The Corners 20 Years On

Lesley Chow celebrates what is (arguably) the most lyrically inventive record of the 1990s

To Chop And Change: Pavement’s Wowee Zowee 25 Years On

Lesley Chow dissects the (semi-) serious intent behind Stephen Malkmus' nonsensical rhymes on Pavement's 3rd album which was positioned as the "logical end-point of rock"

Always Organic: Cory Rayborn On 15 Years Of Three Lobed Recordings

By day, Cory Rayborn's a business and environmental lawyer, by night (often five nights in a row, packaging records by hand) he's putting out limited-run releases by the likes of Bardo Pond, Steve Gunn and Sun City Girls. As his label Three Lobed marks 15 years of operations, he talks to JR Moores

“Pavement Really Weren’t Trying”: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Revisited

Eli Lee casts her mind back to 1994 and the release of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Pavement's most commercial moment

30 Years On: Revisiting Pavement’s Slanted And Enchanted

Jim Keoghan slips back three decades to listen to Pavement's debut and finds it, thankfully, just as messy as it used to be

“Slacker At Heart, I Guess”: Stephen Malkmus Interviewed

Leah Pritchard talks to Stephen Malkmus about new LP Mirror Traffic, The Fall, golf, softball and hanging with the horse-hunting set

Reformation Culture In 2010: Why We Should Welcome Returning Heroes

Think reunions are inescapable, undignified and generally a bad thing? Noel Gardner disagrees, as long as you welcome them with the right spirit

A Pavement Interview: Terror Twilight, Radiohead, & Going Overground

As Pavement announce their reunion, Rock's Backpages and the Quietus revisit Barney Hoskyns' 1999 feature, written during the recording of final album _Terror Twilight_

Pretty Boys Docking: Favours For Sailors Interviewed

Power-Pop Favours for Sailors on Literary influences, American Pop and the power of 'Whoa'

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Maximum Drama: Lee Ranaldo’s 13 Favourite Albums

From the peak of CBGB new wave to the group he calls 'the defining band of the 90s', former Sonic Youth man Lee Ranaldo takes Nick Hutchings through the thirteen albums that shaped his life

All In It: British Sea Power’s Scott Wilkinson On His Favourite LPs

Ahead of British Sea Power's soundtracking of Polish animation at the Barbican as part of Kinoteka Film Festival and the release of new album Let The Dancers Inherit The Party, vocalist Scott Wilkinson guides Richard Foster through his favourite albums, from War Of The Worlds to Mighty Sparrow, Pavement and more. Photo by Mayumi Hirata

Playing For Keeps: Cate Le Bon’s Favourite Albums

With her UK tour just started, singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon tells John Freeman about how an attitude of playfulness runs through her 13 top LPs