The Pavement reunion tour has been over and done for years, and there’s no indication that we’ll get another one anytime soon. But people who went see Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks play L.A.’s El Rey Theatre on Friday night got to see something of a mini-reunion, as Spiral Stairs rejoined his old Pavement ban...

Pavement’s on their way to a long summer of festivals and one-off gigs, but curating an ATP is a sweet way to get things started. (It’s also a sweet way to get in some time with their side projects — both Spiral Stairs and Steve West’s marble valley played sets.) Avi Buffalo started the weekend, [...]

Scott Kannberg will make the short journey to the Brixton Windmill venue for the show

“It was the first time some of us had been in the same room together for close to 10 years,” he writes. “I think we all were a little nervous.” Other Pavement tour clues in his entry: the band practiced over 40 songs (to let you know how deep your shouted requests can be), and, [...]

While the accuracy of Spiral Stairs' prediction of the inevitable release of new Pavement remains to be seen, the inevitable repackaging of old Pavement is imminent. There's the tour, which will include pretty much every music festival that can afford them, and there's the Greatest Hits set, which per its advance billing "definitely digs deeper ...