He might be technically retired from what we consider regular fiction filmmaking, but since his TIFF premiered Her Smell back in 2018 Alex Ross Perry‘s output has been fruitful, plentiful and now we this hybrid we can say imaginative and not trapped by conformity. Announced late last year, the project as Perry called it will be a mix of items tossed into a blender. Putting together the members of Pavement, Zoe Lister-Jones, Michael Esper and Kathryn Gallagher, the behind the line crew folk include cinematography Robert Kolodny and editor Robert Greene. Perry first visited Park City for Listen Up Philip in 2014.…...
- 11/17/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
“Her Smell” director Alex Ross Perry is developing two nonfiction projects, including the as-yet-untitled doc about video stores.
“I can’t speak for everybody but yeah, I miss them,” he tells Variety at Poland’s American Film Festival, where he also picked the Indie Star Award and treated the audience to work-in-progress footage.
“I’m trying to tell this story while it’s still within our grasp. You only have so much time when something is both a present tense memory for one half of your audience and a completely new experience for another. In another decade, everything I’m talking about will be ancient history.”
Perry, who has been working on the project for 10 years, is also putting finishing touches on “Pavements,” about an indie rock band.
“I think both this video store movie and the Pavement movie are examinations of the unexamined era,” he says.
“It was something...
“I can’t speak for everybody but yeah, I miss them,” he tells Variety at Poland’s American Film Festival, where he also picked the Indie Star Award and treated the audience to work-in-progress footage.
“I’m trying to tell this story while it’s still within our grasp. You only have so much time when something is both a present tense memory for one half of your audience and a completely new experience for another. In another decade, everything I’m talking about will be ancient history.”
Perry, who has been working on the project for 10 years, is also putting finishing touches on “Pavements,” about an indie rock band.
“I think both this video store movie and the Pavement movie are examinations of the unexamined era,” he says.
“It was something...
- 11/12/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Soccer Mommy has dropped an EP full of covers called Karaoke Night, featuring her unique take on songs by Taylor Swift, Pavement, Slowdive, and more. Stream it via Apple Music or Spotify below.
Along with Sophie Allison’s excellent reimaginings of Sheryl Crow’s “Soak Up the Sun” and Swift’s “I’m Only Me When I’m with You,” the five-track Karaoke Night includes her renditions of “Here” by Pavement, “Losing My Religion” by R.E.M., and “Dagger” by Slowdive. Nothing surprising here — if you’re at all familiar with Soccer Mommy’s catalog, you can hear how all five artists have influenced her music, from bubbly pop to scrappy indie rock.
“I’m Only Me When I’m with You” originally appeared as a bonus track on Swift’s 2006 self-titled debut album. Soccer Mommy’s version swaps out the fiddle solos for a screeching, Bilinda Butcher-style electric guitar riff,...
Along with Sophie Allison’s excellent reimaginings of Sheryl Crow’s “Soak Up the Sun” and Swift’s “I’m Only Me When I’m with You,” the five-track Karaoke Night includes her renditions of “Here” by Pavement, “Losing My Religion” by R.E.M., and “Dagger” by Slowdive. Nothing surprising here — if you’re at all familiar with Soccer Mommy’s catalog, you can hear how all five artists have influenced her music, from bubbly pop to scrappy indie rock.
“I’m Only Me When I’m with You” originally appeared as a bonus track on Swift’s 2006 self-titled debut album. Soccer Mommy’s version swaps out the fiddle solos for a screeching, Bilinda Butcher-style electric guitar riff,...
- 9/22/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
The National announced the impending release of a new album titled Laugh Track during the band’s opening night set at their Homecoming Festival in Cincinnati.
Arriving just five months after the band’s 2023 LP First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track will be released digitally on Sunday, singer Matt Berninger told the crowd, with a vinyl release to follow in November.
“We have a new record coming out, it comes out Sunday night at midnight,” Berninger said. “The new record is called Laugh Track, and we have some pre-pressed...
Arriving just five months after the band’s 2023 LP First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track will be released digitally on Sunday, singer Matt Berninger told the crowd, with a vinyl release to follow in November.
“We have a new record coming out, it comes out Sunday night at midnight,” Berninger said. “The new record is called Laugh Track, and we have some pre-pressed...
- 9/16/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Soccer Mommy has covered Taylor Swift’s 2006 track “I’m Only Me When I’m With You.” The emotive, punk-tinged rendition will appear on the musician’s forthcoming five-song covers EP, Karaoke Night, out Sept. 22 via Loma Vista.
“I really wanted to cover this song because it’s one of my favorites from Taylor’s first album,” Sophie Allison, a.k.a. Soccer Mommy, explained in a statement. “I listened to that record so much when I was a kid and I think it had a lot of influence on me then.
“I really wanted to cover this song because it’s one of my favorites from Taylor’s first album,” Sophie Allison, a.k.a. Soccer Mommy, explained in a statement. “I listened to that record so much when I was a kid and I think it had a lot of influence on me then.
- 8/23/2023
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Gary Young, the original drummer for pioneering indie rock band Pavement who played on its revered debut album Slanted and Enchanted, died Thursday at his home in Stockton, CA. He was 70. The group shared the news on social media but did not provide other details.
Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus wrote on Twitter, “Gary’s pavement drums were ‘one take and hit record’…. Nailed it so well. rip.”
Born Garrit Allan Robertson Young on May 3, 1953, in Stockton, he played in various local bands in the 1980s while booking punk acts in California’s Central Valley. When singer-songwriter-guitarist Malkmus and guitarist Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg formed Pavement as a duo in in 1989, they recorded their first EPs at Young’s home studio Louder Than You Think, and he drummed on the tracks.
Gary Young in ‘Louder Than You Think’
Young earned a reputation for eccentricity and indulgence in those early days, playing...
Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus wrote on Twitter, “Gary’s pavement drums were ‘one take and hit record’…. Nailed it so well. rip.”
Born Garrit Allan Robertson Young on May 3, 1953, in Stockton, he played in various local bands in the 1980s while booking punk acts in California’s Central Valley. When singer-songwriter-guitarist Malkmus and guitarist Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg formed Pavement as a duo in in 1989, they recorded their first EPs at Young’s home studio Louder Than You Think, and he drummed on the tracks.
Gary Young in ‘Louder Than You Think’
Young earned a reputation for eccentricity and indulgence in those early days, playing...
- 8/18/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Gary Young, the influential and enigmatic drummer on Pavement’s earliest releases including their 1992 debut album Slanted and Enchanted, has died at 70. He passed away at his home in Stockton, as confirmed by his wife Geri Bernstein Young.
Young was born on May 3rd, 1953 in Mamaroneck, New York. After touring in punk bands and working as a talent booker through the ’80s, the ex-hippie settled down in Stockton, California where he eventually crossed paths with Pavement founding members Stephen Malkmus and Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg in 1989. Young offered to play drums for the duo while producing a session at his home studio Louder Than You Think that resulted in Pavement’s 1989 debut EP Slay Tracks: 1933–1969. After the release gained traction, Young was enlisted to produce and perform on their follow-up EP’s, 1990’s Demolition Plot J-7 and 1991’s Perfect Sound Forever.
As Pavement launched into a full-fledged touring band, Young...
Young was born on May 3rd, 1953 in Mamaroneck, New York. After touring in punk bands and working as a talent booker through the ’80s, the ex-hippie settled down in Stockton, California where he eventually crossed paths with Pavement founding members Stephen Malkmus and Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg in 1989. Young offered to play drums for the duo while producing a session at his home studio Louder Than You Think that resulted in Pavement’s 1989 debut EP Slay Tracks: 1933–1969. After the release gained traction, Young was enlisted to produce and perform on their follow-up EP’s, 1990’s Demolition Plot J-7 and 1991’s Perfect Sound Forever.
As Pavement launched into a full-fledged touring band, Young...
- 8/18/2023
- by Bryan Kress
- Consequence - Music
Gary Young, the original drummer for pioneering indie-rock band Pavement, has died at the age of 70.
Frontman Stephen Malkmus confirmed Young’s death on social media Thursday. “Gary Young passed on today,” he wrote. “Gary’s pavement drums were ‘one take and hit record’…. Nailed it so well.”
Malkmus and guitarist Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg formed Pavement in 1989 in their hometown of Stockton, California. That year, they recorded their first EP at a small studio in Stockton owned by Young, the colorful local who would soon become the band’s first drummer.
Frontman Stephen Malkmus confirmed Young’s death on social media Thursday. “Gary Young passed on today,” he wrote. “Gary’s pavement drums were ‘one take and hit record’…. Nailed it so well.”
Malkmus and guitarist Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg formed Pavement in 1989 in their hometown of Stockton, California. That year, they recorded their first EP at a small studio in Stockton owned by Young, the colorful local who would soon become the band’s first drummer.
- 8/18/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
This post contains spoilers for "Barbie."
In "Barbie," Gloria's heartfelt monologue about the pressure for women to be perfect resonates so strongly with the Barbies that it snaps them out of the subservient spell they're under in the patriarchal Kendom. Alongside her daughter Sasha, Gloria leads a covert mission with some of the Barbies to take back Barbieland. They do this by giving Ken exactly what he wants: by stroking his ego. While one of the enlightened Barbies distracts Ken with her adoring gaze and innocent questions, the others capture the brainwashed Barbies — former writers and doctors turned into cheerleaders and maids — to re-educate them. Then, they plan to storm the pink Capitol Building and rewrite the Barbie constitution.
Tired of being "just Ken," the Kens use mansplaining as a way to overpower Barbie. In addition to chugging beers and admiring horses, these new hypermasculine Kens love to condescendingly lecture...
In "Barbie," Gloria's heartfelt monologue about the pressure for women to be perfect resonates so strongly with the Barbies that it snaps them out of the subservient spell they're under in the patriarchal Kendom. Alongside her daughter Sasha, Gloria leads a covert mission with some of the Barbies to take back Barbieland. They do this by giving Ken exactly what he wants: by stroking his ego. While one of the enlightened Barbies distracts Ken with her adoring gaze and innocent questions, the others capture the brainwashed Barbies — former writers and doctors turned into cheerleaders and maids — to re-educate them. Then, they plan to storm the pink Capitol Building and rewrite the Barbie constitution.
Tired of being "just Ken," the Kens use mansplaining as a way to overpower Barbie. In addition to chugging beers and admiring horses, these new hypermasculine Kens love to condescendingly lecture...
- 7/25/2023
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
It seems like distant memory, a relic of a bygone era, but “punk cred” was once currency in certain corners of rock culture. To be perceived as inauthentic, cynical, or ambitious meant losing stock with a sizable chunk of the music press as well as your peers, and few bands felt the brunt of that as much as the Smashing Pumpkins. Indie icons from Stephen Malkmus to fellow Chicagoan Steve Albini criticized the band in songs and interviews, and even as recently as 2015, Kim Gordon called the group “in no way punk rock” in her memoir Girl in a Band.
Led by the mercurial Billy Corgan—or William Patrick Corgan, as he’s preferred in recent years—the Pumpkins started as a mopey goth band but gradually addended their love of the Cure and New Order with Black Sabbath-inspired riffs and psychedelic guitar. Their debut, 1991’s Gish, boasted bombastic production...
Led by the mercurial Billy Corgan—or William Patrick Corgan, as he’s preferred in recent years—the Pumpkins started as a mopey goth band but gradually addended their love of the Cure and New Order with Black Sabbath-inspired riffs and psychedelic guitar. Their debut, 1991’s Gish, boasted bombastic production...
- 7/24/2023
- by Fred Barrett
- Slant Magazine
Hopscotch Music Festival returns to Raleigh, North Carolina this September, and they’ve revealed their jam-packed 2023 lineup featuring headliners Pavement, Denzel Curry, and Japanese Breakfast. It marks the fest’s biggest lineup since its 2019 iteration.
Other large-font acts hitting the Hopscotch grounds between September 7th-9th include Alvvays, Digable Planets, Soccer Mommy, King Krule, Margo Price, Dinosaur Jr., Sunny Day Real Estate, and American Football, with even more acts to be announced soon. What’s more, Hopscotch will host a batch of comedy sets throughout the weekend featuring Whitmer Thomas, Saturday Night Live breakout Sarah Sherman, and more.
Three-day general admission wristbands are on sale now for $129, with VIP going for $375. Grab yours over at Hopscotch Music Festival’s website, and check out the lineup poster below.
Curry shared his most recent album Melt My Eyez See Your Future in March 2022. In addition to supporting Beck and Phoenix on their...
Other large-font acts hitting the Hopscotch grounds between September 7th-9th include Alvvays, Digable Planets, Soccer Mommy, King Krule, Margo Price, Dinosaur Jr., Sunny Day Real Estate, and American Football, with even more acts to be announced soon. What’s more, Hopscotch will host a batch of comedy sets throughout the weekend featuring Whitmer Thomas, Saturday Night Live breakout Sarah Sherman, and more.
Three-day general admission wristbands are on sale now for $129, with VIP going for $375. Grab yours over at Hopscotch Music Festival’s website, and check out the lineup poster below.
Curry shared his most recent album Melt My Eyez See Your Future in March 2022. In addition to supporting Beck and Phoenix on their...
- 5/19/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
The National have announced the lineup for the 2023 iteration of their Homecoming Festival, which will of course be headlined by the band themselves along with performances from Patti Smith and Her Band, Pavement, and The Walkmen. The two-day event returns to Smale Park in their hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio on September 15th and 16th.
While headlining on Friday and Saturday, The National will perform a different set each night. The other acts on the bill include Weyes Blood, Snail Mail, Bartees Strange, Arooj Aftab, Julia Jacklin, The Drin, Leo Pastel, Carriers, and Ballard.
Single-day, weekend, and VIP passes will go on sale Friday, May 19th at 10:00 a.m. Et via Ticketmaster. Members of The National’s Cherry Tree fan club will have first access to pre-sale tickets beginning May 18th at 9:00 a.m. Et.
“When we launched Homecoming in 2018, we were overwhelmed by the response from the community...
While headlining on Friday and Saturday, The National will perform a different set each night. The other acts on the bill include Weyes Blood, Snail Mail, Bartees Strange, Arooj Aftab, Julia Jacklin, The Drin, Leo Pastel, Carriers, and Ballard.
Single-day, weekend, and VIP passes will go on sale Friday, May 19th at 10:00 a.m. Et via Ticketmaster. Members of The National’s Cherry Tree fan club will have first access to pre-sale tickets beginning May 18th at 9:00 a.m. Et.
“When we launched Homecoming in 2018, we were overwhelmed by the response from the community...
- 5/17/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Pavement are extending their reunion tour to Fall 2023 with another four-night run in New York City.
This time around, Pavement will play four nights at Brooklyn Steel from September 11th through 14th. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 12th at 10:00 a.m. via Axs.
Prior to the fall shows, Pavement will play Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party and Bilbao Bbk Live. Grab your passes for those dates via StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. They also have a three-night residency at Harpa Center in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Last year, Pavement shared reissues of their final album Terror Twilight and 1999 EP Spit on a Stranger. They also released a 30th anniversary edition of their debut album, Slanted and Enchanted.
Read our recap of Pavement’s first show in Osaka, Japan in 13 years and revisit our ranking of their 10 best songs.
Pavement 2023 Tour Dates:
05/14 – Salt Lake City,...
This time around, Pavement will play four nights at Brooklyn Steel from September 11th through 14th. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 12th at 10:00 a.m. via Axs.
Prior to the fall shows, Pavement will play Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party and Bilbao Bbk Live. Grab your passes for those dates via StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. They also have a three-night residency at Harpa Center in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Last year, Pavement shared reissues of their final album Terror Twilight and 1999 EP Spit on a Stranger. They also released a 30th anniversary edition of their debut album, Slanted and Enchanted.
Read our recap of Pavement’s first show in Osaka, Japan in 13 years and revisit our ranking of their 10 best songs.
Pavement 2023 Tour Dates:
05/14 – Salt Lake City,...
- 5/9/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Lewis Largent, the one-time host of MTV’s alternative music program 120 Minutes and prominent radio DJ for Kroq, has died at 58. His family confirmed the news via Variety, revealing that the MTV VJ passed away on February 20th following a long illness.
Largent, who was born and raised in Southern California, launched his career in the music industry with an internship at Los Angeles’ famed alternative rock radio station, Kroq. He landed a full-time job with them in 1985, and was promoted to a music director position in 1989.
After departing Kroq in 1992, Largent jumped to MTV as the Vice President of Music Programming and assumed hosting duties of the channel’s established alternative rock show, 120 Minutes. During his tenure from 1992 to 1995, the music television tastemaker interviewed countless up-and-coming alternative artists at the time including Radiohead, Björk, Smashing Pumpkins, and Pavement as well as legends like David Bowie (sitting beside a young Trent Reznor) and Tony Bennett.
Largent, who was born and raised in Southern California, launched his career in the music industry with an internship at Los Angeles’ famed alternative rock radio station, Kroq. He landed a full-time job with them in 1985, and was promoted to a music director position in 1989.
After departing Kroq in 1992, Largent jumped to MTV as the Vice President of Music Programming and assumed hosting duties of the channel’s established alternative rock show, 120 Minutes. During his tenure from 1992 to 1995, the music television tastemaker interviewed countless up-and-coming alternative artists at the time including Radiohead, Björk, Smashing Pumpkins, and Pavement as well as legends like David Bowie (sitting beside a young Trent Reznor) and Tony Bennett.
- 3/12/2023
- by Bryan Kress
- Consequence - Music
Even if you're not a fan of his off-kilter films, you can never accuse Alex Ross Perry of not being daring or creative. This can also be said of acclaimed indie rockers Pavement. So what happens when these two creative forces collide? Apparently, a pseudo-documentary that blends the band's real experiences with surreal fiction.
At least, that's what we can interpret from Ross Perry's cryptic explanation to The New Yorker. The publication profiled Perry about his latest Pavement collaboration, the gonzo off-Broadway musical "Slanted! Enchanted!" and he revealed that the show was just one part of a larger project he and the band are cooking up. The film, which is in its early planning stages, is described by The New Yorker's Hannah Seidlitz as "a mélange of biopic, museum footage, bits of 'Slanted! Enchanted!,' tour doc, farce, and paean." That sounds about right for Pavement.
If you're looking for...
At least, that's what we can interpret from Ross Perry's cryptic explanation to The New Yorker. The publication profiled Perry about his latest Pavement collaboration, the gonzo off-Broadway musical "Slanted! Enchanted!" and he revealed that the show was just one part of a larger project he and the band are cooking up. The film, which is in its early planning stages, is described by The New Yorker's Hannah Seidlitz as "a mélange of biopic, museum footage, bits of 'Slanted! Enchanted!,' tour doc, farce, and paean." That sounds about right for Pavement.
If you're looking for...
- 12/20/2022
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
After a furiously prolific beginning to his career, with six features in less than ten years, we’ve been waiting to hear what Alex Ross Perry is working on after 2018’s Her Smell. With production already underway on his next movie, it’s now been unveiled: a project that will keep him in the world of rock and roll.
Earlier this month, a new production from Alex Ross Perry entitled “Slanted! Enchanted!: A Pavement Musical,” had just two performances at New York City’s Sheen Center. Now, thanks to a new piece in The New Yorker, the production has been revealed to be part of a much larger cinematic project dedicated to the Stephen Malkmus-led indie rock band.
Described a “screwball movie” and a “semiotic experiment,” the film imagines if Pavement was the most important band in the world. Starring actors familiar to the Broadway musical, Michael Esper...
Earlier this month, a new production from Alex Ross Perry entitled “Slanted! Enchanted!: A Pavement Musical,” had just two performances at New York City’s Sheen Center. Now, thanks to a new piece in The New Yorker, the production has been revealed to be part of a much larger cinematic project dedicated to the Stephen Malkmus-led indie rock band.
Described a “screwball movie” and a “semiotic experiment,” the film imagines if Pavement was the most important band in the world. Starring actors familiar to the Broadway musical, Michael Esper...
- 12/19/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
What could sum up the spirit of Pavement’s music better than seven tap-dancing Santas stepping to the guitar break from “Gold Soundz”? Or a team of theater kids giving jazz hands while they all sing “Shady Lane”? Or “AT&T” turned into a boot-scootin’ line dance, complete with cowboy hats and yeee-haws? Slanted! Enchanted!: A Pavement Musical is all these things and more.
The whole idea of turning the Pavement songbook into a jukebox musical might sound crazy, but nothing could prepare you for how utterly bonkers this show is.
The whole idea of turning the Pavement songbook into a jukebox musical might sound crazy, but nothing could prepare you for how utterly bonkers this show is.
- 12/3/2022
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
The afternoon sun streams through the windows of the Brooklyn art space ChaShaMa. Steve Keene, possibly the world’s most prolific painter, is hard at work, even though the gallery’s hosting a retrospective of his work. Right now, he’s adding a few blond streaks to Iggy Pop’s hair on the cover of the first Stooges album. Keene’s most famous for painting album covers on plywood panels, dozens per week, then selling them absurdly cheap. “It’s handmade,” he says with his easy grin. “That means somebody...
- 10/13/2022
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Pavement had so many amazing moments in their historic four-night run in Brooklyn. But one of the funniest came on Sunday night, after the legendary Nineties indie jesters took a ramshackle stab at “Spit on a Stranger.” Stephen Malkmus shrugged and told the crowd, “That was a version of that song.” A typically bitchy quip — but it also showed off the band’s brazen confidence. All four nights in Brooklyn’s Kings Theater, Pavement didn’t just go back to those gold soundz — they took them somewhere new. And all...
- 10/5/2022
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
In 2017, the formerly obscure Pavement B-side “Harness Your Hopes” became their number one track on Spotify. It currently has 70 million plays, over twice the amount of “Cut Your Hair,” the group’s highest charting and arguably most popular song during their original run. At Stereogum, Nate Rogers looked into why exactly “Harness Your Hopes” became as prevalent as it had and all signs point to Spotify’s Autoplay feature, which “cues up music that ‘resembles’ what you’ve just been listening to, based on a series of sonic signifiers too complex to describe.” At this point, “Harness Your Hopes” has crossed […]
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- 4/13/2022
- by Vikram Murthi
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
In 2017, the formerly obscure Pavement B-side “Harness Your Hopes” became their number one track on Spotify. It currently has 70 million plays, over twice the amount of “Cut Your Hair,” the group’s highest charting and arguably most popular song during their original run. At Stereogum, Nate Rogers looked into why exactly “Harness Your Hopes” became as prevalent as it had and all signs point to Spotify’s Autoplay feature, which “cues up music that ‘resembles’ what you’ve just been listening to, based on a series of sonic signifiers too complex to describe.” At this point, “Harness Your Hopes” has crossed […]
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The post How Alex Ross Perry and Dp Robert Kolodny Made a New Video for Pavement’s “Harness Your Hopes” first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 4/13/2022
- by Vikram Murthi
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
There are many ways to introduce yourself as you crash into rock & roll history. It turns out that one of those ways is to yell, “I went to school and I got the Big D!” The U.K. duo Wet Leg made a surprise splash last year by dropping two bombshell singles right on top of each other, “Chaise Longue” and “Wet Dream.” They blew up into an international overnight sensation with a perfect formula: postpunk guitar buzz, sneering sarcastic one-liners about twenty-something sex and revenge.
Rhian Teasdale and Hester...
Rhian Teasdale and Hester...
- 4/7/2022
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
The sound of Terror Twilight, the final album from Pavement, the Platonic ideal of 1990s indie rockers, was the guitar-waggle of frustration, the warp and woof of a brilliant songwriter and still-more-brilliant guitarist struggling against the limits of a band he’d outgrown. By 1999, Pavement leader Stephen Malkmus had long lapped his bandmates, the gents with whom he defined a genre for a solid decade, and on Terror Twilight, reissued in this glorious fan-service-ish package, one can hear it in every note of that progression and struggle.
Following their 1997 album Brighten the Corners,...
Following their 1997 album Brighten the Corners,...
- 4/7/2022
- by Joe Gross
- Rollingstone.com
No, this is not a video from the archives. Released as a B-side on their 1999 EP Spit On a Stranger, Pavement’s song Harness Your Hopes has had a rebirth as of late, becoming a viral sensation across TikTok and Spotify, racking up nearly 70 million plays on the latter platform. The EP is now getting a re-issue on April 8 courtesy of Matador Records and an entertaining new music video has dropped.
Coming from director Alex Ross Perry, whose last feature was 2018’s Her Smell, the video stars Sophia Thatcher (Yellowjackets) traveling through various vintage footage of the band and beyond placed behind her. As we await news on Arp’s next project, this certainly tides us over. Check it out below.
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Coming from director Alex Ross Perry, whose last feature was 2018’s Her Smell, the video stars Sophia Thatcher (Yellowjackets) traveling through various vintage footage of the band and beyond placed behind her. As we await news on Arp’s next project, this certainly tides us over. Check it out below.
The post Watch Alex Ross Perry's Music Video for Pavement's Harness Your Hopes first appeared on The Film Stage.
- 3/11/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Pavement have paired their beloved B-side “Harness Your Hopes” with a new video ahead of the release of their massive Terror Twilight reissue.
The visual, directed by Alex Ross Perry, stars Yellowjackets’ Sophie Thatcher as a Pavement fan magically transported into the legendary alt-rockers’ Nineties videos, including “Gold Soundz,” “Cut Your Hair,” “Rattled by the Rush,” and “Carrot Rope.”
Before its inclusion on the Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal reissue, due out April 8, “Harness Your Hopes” featured on the CD edition of Pavement’s Spit on a Stranger EP; that five-track 1999 EP,...
The visual, directed by Alex Ross Perry, stars Yellowjackets’ Sophie Thatcher as a Pavement fan magically transported into the legendary alt-rockers’ Nineties videos, including “Gold Soundz,” “Cut Your Hair,” “Rattled by the Rush,” and “Carrot Rope.”
Before its inclusion on the Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal reissue, due out April 8, “Harness Your Hopes” featured on the CD edition of Pavement’s Spit on a Stranger EP; that five-track 1999 EP,...
- 3/10/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Happy birthday to Brighten the Corners, Pavement’s slyest, funniest, most underrated masterpiece, released on Feb. 11, 1997. It’s their pinnacle of rockness, full of majestic guitar bravado and stupid-beautiful melodies, with room for terrible jokes, instrumental detours, gossip about Geddy Lee and Conrad Hilton. Brighten is their turning-30 album, as the Nineties summer babes face up to adulthood. It’s also the one where Pavement prove themselves the great guitar band of their era, which happens to be the all-time great era for guitar bands. “This was sort of an...
- 2/11/2022
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Pavement’s back—again. After briefly reuniting in 2010, we were sure that would be the last time we’d get to see one of the most influential indie rock bands of the 1990s. But perhaps they knew how much we needed a comeback, because now we’re getting another reunion tour—their second after calling it quits in 1999.…...
- 9/8/2021
- by Tatiana Tenreyro
- avclub.com
In the first trailer for his documentary on the Velvet Underground,” director Todd Haynes takes viewers on a lightning-fast overview of the film, the era, the band and why it was so vastly influential.
The doc chronicles the 1960s group, which was once managed by Andy Warhol and considered the house band of his Factory, via deeply researched archival footage, contemporary and past interviews with bandmembers — including Lou Reed and John Cale — and those around them, ranging from Warhol and Factory denizens to music executives and critics from the era. While commercially unsuccessful during their initial 1965-1970 run, the Velvets went on to influence multiple generations of musicians, from Patti Smith and R.E.M. to Beck and Pavement and beyond.
In Variety’s review of the film, critic Owen Gleiberman called it a “dazzling historical collage, but not a definitive portrait” of the revered band. That’s partially because...
The doc chronicles the 1960s group, which was once managed by Andy Warhol and considered the house band of his Factory, via deeply researched archival footage, contemporary and past interviews with bandmembers — including Lou Reed and John Cale — and those around them, ranging from Warhol and Factory denizens to music executives and critics from the era. While commercially unsuccessful during their initial 1965-1970 run, the Velvets went on to influence multiple generations of musicians, from Patti Smith and R.E.M. to Beck and Pavement and beyond.
In Variety’s review of the film, critic Owen Gleiberman called it a “dazzling historical collage, but not a definitive portrait” of the revered band. That’s partially because...
- 8/30/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Lorde, Megan Thee Stallion, Beck, Dua Lipa, Pavement, Massive Attack, and Gorillaz are among the artists set to play Primavera Sound when it returns in 2022.
The festival, which takes place in Barcelona, Spain, will be held over two weekends next year — June 2nd and June 4th, and June 9th through 11th — with slightly different lineups each time. The two weekends will take place at the Parc del Fòrum, while in the intervening week, June 5th through 8th, there will be an array of shows at venues around Barcelona. Primavera Sound...
The festival, which takes place in Barcelona, Spain, will be held over two weekends next year — June 2nd and June 4th, and June 9th through 11th — with slightly different lineups each time. The two weekends will take place at the Parc del Fòrum, while in the intervening week, June 5th through 8th, there will be an array of shows at venues around Barcelona. Primavera Sound...
- 5/25/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
In the fall of 1990, the Louisville band Slint found itself at a crossroads.
They’d just finished recording their second album over the course of a rushed weekend in Chicago. They knew that one of their favorite labels, the esteemed indie Touch and Go, would be putting it out, but otherwise, the future seemed uncertain. Though the band wasn’t paying their bills, the members, all in their early twenties, had taken time off from college to facilitate the intensive rehearsals that birthed five of the album’s six tracks.
They’d just finished recording their second album over the course of a rushed weekend in Chicago. They knew that one of their favorite labels, the esteemed indie Touch and Go, would be putting it out, but otherwise, the future seemed uncertain. Though the band wasn’t paying their bills, the members, all in their early twenties, had taken time off from college to facilitate the intensive rehearsals that birthed five of the album’s six tracks.
- 3/25/2021
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
When Florence Shaw was small, she dreamed of cows. She collected pictures and distributed them throughout her family’s large, run-down house in southeast London, which was soon filled with grazing bovines as far as the eye could see. “I was just completely enamored with everything about them,” she says now. “I had a cow mug and a cow pencil and a cow hot-water bottle and, like, 50 billion stuffed cows.”
Growing up in a setting that she recalls as “ostensibly middle-class, but with very little money,” Shaw was encouraged to...
Growing up in a setting that she recalls as “ostensibly middle-class, but with very little money,” Shaw was encouraged to...
- 3/17/2021
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
So, How Was Your 2020? is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December.
2020 found the Old 97’s making a new album under conditions that encapsulated this disastrous year: Recording in Nashville amid a devastating tornado and on the precipice of a deadly pandemic. The resulting LP was Twelfth, released this summer, but frontman Rhett Miller still found time to do things in quarantine, like hosting his Wheels Off podcast,...
2020 found the Old 97’s making a new album under conditions that encapsulated this disastrous year: Recording in Nashville amid a devastating tornado and on the precipice of a deadly pandemic. The resulting LP was Twelfth, released this summer, but frontman Rhett Miller still found time to do things in quarantine, like hosting his Wheels Off podcast,...
- 12/31/2020
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Rising indie rocker Beabadoobee turned in a performance of her song “Care” on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday, November 19th.
Frontwoman Bea Kristi and her band kept things to the point as they ripped through the vintage-sounding track, which is packed with plenty of big guitar crunch that Kristi offset with her sweet vocal croon: “I don’t want your sympathy,” she sings before the final blow-out chorus, “I guess I’ve had it rough/But you don’t really/Care, care, care.”
“Care” appears on Beabadoobee’s debut album, Fake It Flowers,...
Frontwoman Bea Kristi and her band kept things to the point as they ripped through the vintage-sounding track, which is packed with plenty of big guitar crunch that Kristi offset with her sweet vocal croon: “I don’t want your sympathy,” she sings before the final blow-out chorus, “I guess I’ve had it rough/But you don’t really/Care, care, care.”
“Care” appears on Beabadoobee’s debut album, Fake It Flowers,...
- 11/19/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
It’s official: Gen Z stans the Nineties just as much as millennials do. Eighteen-year-old London musician Bea Kristi, who performs under beabadoobee, released her new single “I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus” this week, and the song’s devotion to the alt-rock prophet goes beyond a name-check. “Sitting at home, crying to Pavement/I wish I was Stephen Malkmus,” Kristi bemoans over distorted guitar fuzz – a sure sign that someone’s been listening to a lot of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain.
Growing up as the lone Filipino student in...
Growing up as the lone Filipino student in...
- 9/20/2019
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
David Berman once wrote that Paul Simon got it all wrong — there’s really only two ways to leave your lover. “You can up and leave, Steve. Or you can go to your grave, Dave.” Berman spent much of his existence leaving his lives behind, pulling up stakes and starting a new life somewhere else, until the horrible news of his death yesterday at 52. He was beloved for his Silver Jews albums and his 1999 classic book of poetry, Actual Air. He had just returned to release an excellent new album under the name Purple Mountains.
- 8/8/2019
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Days after Stephen Malkmus admitted in the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast that he would be open to a Pavement reunion, the beloved indie rock band revealed Saturday that they will perform a pair of European shows in 2020. The gigs mark Pavement’s first together since the band’s 2010 reunion.
Barcelona’s Primavera Sound – where Malkmus and the Jicks performed on Thursday – made the reunion official Saturday on social media, confirming that the reunited Pavement would perform at the 2020 Primavera Sound in Barcelona and its sister fest Nos Primavera Sound in Porto,...
Barcelona’s Primavera Sound – where Malkmus and the Jicks performed on Thursday – made the reunion official Saturday on social media, confirming that the reunited Pavement would perform at the 2020 Primavera Sound in Barcelona and its sister fest Nos Primavera Sound in Porto,...
- 6/1/2019
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
About two minutes into “Outta My Head,” from the new album Free Spirit by pop-r&B star Khalid, a strange, foreign sound bubbles to the song’s shiny disco-pop surface. It’s a squiggly, pitchy thing that echoes the melody for about 15 seconds before receding into the background.
Could it be … yes, it’s a guitar solo!
The solo on Khalid’s album, played by John Mayer, is a way for the genre-hopping Khalid to show off his omni-directional vision. But in 2019, there’s no denying that the flashy guitar-breakout moment,...
Could it be … yes, it’s a guitar solo!
The solo on Khalid’s album, played by John Mayer, is a way for the genre-hopping Khalid to show off his omni-directional vision. But in 2019, there’s no denying that the flashy guitar-breakout moment,...
- 4/17/2019
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
In 1987, Stephen Malkmus had a bad Mdma trip. This was one reason, according to the press release for his new album, that he gave “a wide berth” to rave culture in the following decade; he was also busy making several classic indie-rock albums with Pavement at the time. But a few years ago, Malkmus was living in Berlin when he started exploring the city’s club scene and developed an affinity for techno. This was the germ for his new electronic album, Groove Denied, on which one of rock’s...
- 3/15/2019
- by Christian Hoard
- Rollingstone.com
Happy birthday to Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Pavement’s most beloved, most surprising, most perfect album. Even devout Pavement fans were caught off guard by the lush weirdness of it — so devoid of feedback, so not lo-fi, so rock & roll, openly aspiring to pastoral beauty and lyricism and hippie shit like that. Suddenly these art-punk jokers turned into a real band, gushing with almost insultingly gorgeous melodies. It’s Pavement’s most popular album, yet it’s probably their least influential, since if you’re going to copy Pavement, Wowee...
- 2/14/2014
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
It's been more than a decade since the 1990s ended, yet the Internet can't seem to go a day without a reminder of the neon slap bracelets that may have been banned from your school.
Yes, we get it. Times are tough and there's comfort in reflection, but enough is enough.
Below, a final goodbye to the 90s to end the nostalgia once and for all. (We're not kidding. There are 1990 items below.)
1. Scrunchies
2. "The Wild Thornberries"
3. Dawson and Joey
4. "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys"
5. Mr. Feeny
7. MTV playing music videos
8. Snick
9. The premiere of "Freaks and Geeks"
10. Levar Burton
11. "Daria"
12. "Arthur"
13. "The Powerpuff Girls"
14. "Smart Guy"
15. Comedy Central globe logo with buildings
16. "The X-Files"
17. Rosie O'Donnell
18. Bill Nye
19. "Dawson's Creek"
20. The Mighty Ducks"
21. "Are You Afraid of the Dark"
22. Cornholio
23. Rachel Green
24. Tim Allen
25. "All That"
26. "Beverly Hills 90210"
27. "Step by Step"
28. "The Ren & Stimpy Show"
29. "The Famous Jett Jackson"
30. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
Yes, we get it. Times are tough and there's comfort in reflection, but enough is enough.
Below, a final goodbye to the 90s to end the nostalgia once and for all. (We're not kidding. There are 1990 items below.)
1. Scrunchies
2. "The Wild Thornberries"
3. Dawson and Joey
4. "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys"
5. Mr. Feeny
7. MTV playing music videos
8. Snick
9. The premiere of "Freaks and Geeks"
10. Levar Burton
11. "Daria"
12. "Arthur"
13. "The Powerpuff Girls"
14. "Smart Guy"
15. Comedy Central globe logo with buildings
16. "The X-Files"
17. Rosie O'Donnell
18. Bill Nye
19. "Dawson's Creek"
20. The Mighty Ducks"
21. "Are You Afraid of the Dark"
22. Cornholio
23. Rachel Green
24. Tim Allen
25. "All That"
26. "Beverly Hills 90210"
27. "Step by Step"
28. "The Ren & Stimpy Show"
29. "The Famous Jett Jackson"
30. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
- 7/29/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
There are so many new shows on tonight! Shows coming back, shows premiering, shows you've been waiting for and maybe one or two you could care less about and one that probably nobody reading this is actually watching and we'd all just prefer if it would go away forever. Still exciting! We've got "House", we've got "Chuck", we've got that damn "The Ev3nt" show that's being advertised everywhere that they want to make the new "Lost" which I know because that's what the commercials say. Also, it's like Indie Music night over on the talk show circuit and I have no clue what that's all about but I completely approve. Fall television is back! Weeeeeeee! Here's your Monday night TV:
8:00pm: "90210" on The CW
"Chuck" on NBC. Fourth season premiere.
"Dancing With the Stars" on ABC. 11th season premiere. I think it's mostly reality "stars" this season which...
8:00pm: "90210" on The CW
"Chuck" on NBC. Fourth season premiere.
"Dancing With the Stars" on ABC. 11th season premiere. I think it's mostly reality "stars" this season which...
- 9/20/2010
- by Intern Rusty
The London art-school boys in Blur have built one of the decade’s choicest bodies of work, hopping from style to style with breezy melodies and snotty wit, and 13 is their fourth straight keeper. They’re a throwback to the days when bands had that gang mentality: There’s the mouthy, obnoxious singer (Damon Albarn); the shy, bespectacled guitar wizard (Graham Coxon); the superfox bassist (Alex James); and some bloke on the drums (Dave Rowntree). Parklife and The Great Escape were Kinks/Jam/Bowie-style satires on sex, fame and money,...
- 4/1/1999
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
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