Category Archives: Silver Jews

More Album Cover Outtakes

Posted on March 25, 2024 by the press music reviews

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)

Posted on October 6, 2023 by the press music reviews

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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Pavement | Sydney & Melbourne 2023

Posted on March 22, 2023 by the press music reviews

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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RIP David Berman

Posted on August 8, 2019 by the press music reviews

RIP David Berman In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection….

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Silver Jews – Drinking Coke in the Kitchen with a Dog

Posted on July 19, 2019 by the press music reviews

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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