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June 8, 2011 – The first track from Stephen Malkmus' fifth solo album, Mirror Traffic, produced by Beck, has dropped online before its August 23 release, and though the reunion tour from his '90s band Pavement is over, it sounds a little like he never stepped offstage.
"Senator," available below courtesy of Matador Records, is more playful and loose - and Pavement-y - than anything he's released as a solo act. …
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May 24, 2011 – It's one of the eagerly awaited albums of 2011: Pavement's Stephen Malkmus' fifth solo release, produced by Beck. And now we have some essential details: The LP, called Mirror Traffic, will drop August 23 via Matador Records.Check out the cover art (right).
The new effort features Malkmus' longtime band the Jicks. However, it will be the last for drummer Janet Weiss. …
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November 16, 2010 – Smashing Pumpkins and Pavement will share slots at next weekend's Planeta Terra Festival — and Billy Corgan isn't happy about it.
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman unleashed a tirade on his Twitter, taking shots at the reunited indie-rock icons (with whom his band has feuded since the mid-'90s) for representing the "death of the alternative dream."
"Just found out SP is playing with Pavement in Brazil. …
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September 21, 2010 – Pavement returned to TV for their first late-night performance in over a decade on Monday night, stopping by The Colbert Report, where they played indie classic "Gold Soundz" and frontman Stephen Malkmus sat down for a hilariously awkward interview. Watch both below!
The quintet are promoting their greatest hits collection, Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement (out now), the name of which is lifted from a "Gold Soundz" lyric. …
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September 17, 2009 – After speculation circulated online yesterday, Matador Records made it official today: Indie pop groundbreakers Pavement will reunite for tour dates "around the world" in 2010.
But don't get too excited: Today's announcement made it very clear, in two separate mentions, that the reunion tour is "one-time only" and that it's "not a prelude to additional jaunts and/or a permanent reunion" for band members Mark Ibold, Scott "Spiral Stairs …
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January 22, 2009 – Witty and blithe, Stephen Malkmus' jester-of-the-MTV-age lyricism has been as vital to Pavement's music as the lo-fi guitars and catchy alt-pop structures. And nowhere have these assets been as freeform as on "Stereo," the opening track off their reissued 1997 album Brighten the Corners.
"Remember Sonic Youth's 'Bull in the Heather'? …
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