Wowee Zowee is the most Pavement album, and not just in the sense that it’s by far their longest record. Its 18-song sprawl was recorded at the exact middle point of the band’s career, ...

To get us all ready for the upcoming No Kings protest that's happening on Saturday, I thought we might want to revisit the ...

He’s painted album covers for his old friends in Pavement (their 1995 classic Wowee Zowee), the Silver Jews, and the Apples in Stereo.

After Pavement’s split, Malkmus released several albums both solo and with his band the Jicks. He’s currently on tour with the indie supergroup the Hard Quartet .

What happens when you remove the slack from Pavement? You get the most divisive album in Malkmus's discography. Producer Nigel Godrich aimed to "straighten" their crooked sound, crooked sound.

Like Pavement’s albums, it was hard to tell how much of the play was an earnest sendup of a beloved band or simply a joke on the audience itself.

Some things improve with age. Wine is the obvious example, but what about music? Indeed, some albums feel like they get better as years go by. Maybe they were ahead of their time, maybe they got ...

In a new interview on the Kreative Kontrol podcast (here’s a clip), the band’s Scott Kannberg (also known as Spiral Stairs) was on to talk about the new Pavement-inspired movie Pavements.

Pavement never committed the "sin" of having a hit song and they quit while they were ahead: Disbanding in 1999, with just five almost-perfect albums to their name. Their last show, in London's ...

Pavement's 'Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain' just turned 30 on February 14. But is that album the best album in their catalog?

The original was a Seventies cartoon kiddie-folk history lesson that the indie-rock heroes updated for the Nineties. It's absolutely in the spirit of what's going on right now ...