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Category Archives: Pavement
More Album Cover Outtakes
In the mid-80s, both R.E.M. and Talking Heads had album covers adorned with the singular work of Georgian folk/outsider artist and Baptist preacher, Howard Finster. Howard Finster’s (1916 – 2001) unique paintings depicted inspirational images from his own interpretations of … Continue reading
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More Album Cover Outtakes
Pavement repurposed a 1970’s prog-rock album cover for their impeccable four-track EP Watery, Domestic. Little known jazz-rock combo, Ambergris, released their one and only, and rather formidable, self-titled album in 1970, which could only be described as jazz-infused funk rock … Continue reading
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The cover of the Pavement fan-favourite Wowee Zowee, featured a painting by American artist Steve Keene based on a photograph entitled ‘The Arab World’, originally published in Life magazine in 1972. The indie rock legends’ Pavement-iest album, Wowee Zowee (1995), … Continue reading
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Pavement | Pacific Trim EP (1996)
Half of Pavement salvaged abandoned Silver Jews studio time to create one of their best EPs, Pacific Trim. For Pavement, 1996 kicked off with the release of the essential four-track EP, Pacific Trim. The studio time used to record this … Continue reading
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Stephen Malkmus – Groove Denied
Pavement mainman Stephen Malkmus’ 8th solo album was a radical new direction for the alt-rock hero, owing as much to DIY German synth-pop as late-70s high-tech experimentalism. Released after a sojourn in Berlin having jettisoned his backing-band the Jicks, Malkmus … Continue reading
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Pavement | Sydney & Melbourne 2023
American indie-rockers Pavement performed in Sydney and Melbourne for the first time in 12 years as part of the Australian leg of their heroic sold-out 2022/23 world straddling tour. One of the most original, sincere and distinctive bands of the … Continue reading
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More Album Cover Outtakes
Kiss – The solo albums (1978) The painted images used for the Kiss solo albums, all released on 18 September 1978, were based on the cover of a 1977 Kiss world tour glossy. Only Ace Frehley’s image doesn’t match up. … Continue reading
Pavement – Top 50 Songs
Pavement first appeared on the music scene in 1989, formed in Stockton, California when founding members and school friends Stephen Malkmus (SM) and Scott Kannberg (Spiral Stairs) met and started creating primitive indie-rock. Their music stood out amid the angst-fuelled … Continue reading
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Silver Jews – Drinking Coke in the Kitchen with a Dog
The brilliant songwriter David Berman is one of the most thoughtful and gifted American lyricists, poets and musicians in rock today, and after a decade of creative public exile since disbanding the Silver Jews, a highly influential and significant folk-country … Continue reading
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Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted (1992)
Pavement’s Slanted and Enchanted (1992) classic album cover revisited. Who knew? Only sneaky Steve Malkmus it seems. The below gif is self explanatory but very cool.
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