Pavement

Pavement were set to reunite for Primavera Sound 2020 before the pandemic hit…

As arguably the most beloved, most popular, most influential band of all time, The Beatles are probably the most covered pop artist of the last 50 years. Here are 35 great ones, from Arctic Monkeys to Yellow Magic Orchestra.

“Finally sorting out liner notes… stay tuned folks. It’s mastered at least!”

Bad Books’ debut album gets an expanded 10th anniversary reissue today (Built to Spill cover included), and the band talked to us about the music that influenced the album a decade ago, and how it impacted specific songs…

Pavement joined Bandcamp earlier this year, and have now uploaded these two live albums from their 1997 European tour…

’Revisionist History’ features classic videos from their archives and new appearances from Yo La Tengo, and it goes to help NYC indie moviehouse Metrograph.

Malkmus’ tour in support of this year’s Traditional Techniques is now set to kick off in March.

”The five of us talk about what kind of influences and sounds we want to incorporate. We end up sharing and talking about so much different music over our group texts or in the van… this playlist is some of those songs, some classics and just some recent great tracks we’ve been digging…”

Including Animal Collective, Anohni, Belle & Sebastian, Neu!, Vashti Bunyan, Neutral Milk Hotel, Keith Hudson, Galaxie 500, Cornelius, Sun Ra, Vampire Weekend, Anti-Pop Consortium, Magnetic Fields, Cluster, El-P, The Fall, The Monks, Sharon Van Etten, Yo La Tengo, The Strokes, William Basinski, Serge Gainsbourg, Matana Roberts, TV on the Radio, The National, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Os Mutantes, and more.

”Quattracenta is a striking Baltimore band. Like the city in which they reside, Quattracenta impugns and are pungent like a heap of blackened onions or a finished bushel of blue crabs,” Bob tells us.