Category Archives: Stephen Malkmus

More Album Cover Outtakes

Posted on April 10, 2024 by the press music reviews

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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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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Stephen Malkmus – Groove Denied

Posted on May 10, 2023 by the press music reviews

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

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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Pavement – Top 50 Songs

Posted on December 13, 2020 by the press music reviews

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

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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#17: Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Mirror Traffic (2011)

Posted on March 20, 2014 by the press music reviews

Alt-rock lifer Stephen Malkmus’ album Mirror Traffic was recorded at Sunset Sound in Hollywood with the Jicks and was already in the can prior to the triumphant Pavement reunion world tour of 2010. Having spent a solo career eagerly trying … Continue reading →

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