Pavement played Virgin FreeFest (setlist) after completing their run of 5 NYC shows (one more set of Summerstage pics)

photos by Greg Cristman

Pavement @ Summerstage Friday

After six nights in gotham that included one show in a bonafide downpour, two TV appearances (Colbert and Fallon), and thousands of tickets sold to five live shows, Pavement moved on to Marland Saturday to play the free Virgin Mobile FreeFest that went down at Merriweather Post Pavilion…

“False starts, aimless guitar-noodling, and Stephen Malkmus’ sloppy ‘do: Yup, it was a perfect Pavement set. Now several months into its reunion, the legendary indie-rock quintet cycled through every song but “Box Elder” that’s essential to a Pavement show, often with heavy audience accompaniment. Some of the crowd’s favorite singalong lines: “No big hair!” in “Cut Your Hair”; “Not here, babe!” in “Summer Babe”; “Don’t worry, we’re in no hurry!” in “Range Life.” It was uncharacteristically unslackerish, which is to say Bob Nastanovich wasn’t the only member rocking out. Malkmus was in particularly good spirits. After the band ended “Spit On a Stranger,” he joked that he’d auditioned with the song for American Idol. “I couldn’t hit the high notes,” he said.” [Spin]

Pavement‘s NYC victory lap ended one day earlier with their fourth show at Summerstage/Rumsey Playfield. We previously posted the set list and promised more pictures from the show. Here they are (though none of opener The Beets unfortunately).

On Sunday Pavement played Atlanta, and the band has five more dates to go before they hang it up again (or will they?) (should they?). Those dates include Hollywood Bowl in LA with Sonic Youth and No Age, and the Matador 21 Festival.

Setlists from Maryland and Georgia, along with the rest of the pictures from Summerstage Friday, below…

Pavement Concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, USA Setlist on September 25, 2010
Grounded
Cut Your Hair
Date w/ IKEA
Summer Babe (Winter Version)
In the Mouth a Desert
Range Life
Perfume-V
Heaven Is a Truck
Shady Lane
Stop Breathin’
Trigger Cut
Unfair
Spit on a Stranger
Stereo
Fight This Generation
Two States
Starlings of the Slipstream
Gold Soundz
Here

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Pavement Concert at Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA, USA Setlist on September 26, 2010
Silence Kit
Frontwards
In the Mouth a Desert
Stereo
Grounded
Shady Lane / J vs. S
Elevate Me Later
Kennel District
Gold Soundz
Perfume-V
Cut Your Hair
Starlings of the Slipstream
Heaven is a Truck
The Hexx
Unfair
Range Life
Encore:
Here
Stop Breathin
Two States
We Dance
Conduit for Sale!
Date w/ IKEA
Rattled By the Rush