Since she began making records in the early 2010s, Welsh-born, California-based Cate Le Bon has staked out her own unique avant-pop space, especially on excellent recent albums like 2019’s Reward and 2022’s Pompeii. Her warmly stentorian singing and dreamy lyrics can have a de-centering effect, so her music often gets …
Read More »Pavement's 'No More Kings' Is the Perfect Protest Anthem for No Kings Day
All over America today, it’s No Kings Day, as the people rise up to make the kind of protests none of us thought we’d ever need to make in our lifetimes. It’s a day for defiance, for solidarity, as we watch the whole idea of a constitutional republic get dismantled …
Read More »How the Director and Stars of 'Pavements' Brought Many Stephen Malkmuses to Life
The prevailing initial state of the two actors tasked with portraying Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus in Alex Ross Perry’s multifaceted, genre-warped film Pavements was, reasonably, confusion. Pavements — which releases in theaters across North America June 6 — is nominally, and for the most part, a documentary. It follows Pavement …
Read More »See Pavement Perform 'Harness Your Hopes' in First Late-Night TV Appearance in 15 Years
Pavement staged their first late-night TV performance in 15 years Thursday, playing their surprise viral hit “Harness Your Hopes” on The Late Show. While the reunited cult alt-rock band don’t have any gigs on the horizon this year, they have been on the road promoting the quasi-biopic/rockumentary Pavements, which is …
Read More »All-in-One 'Pavements' Trailer Combines Museum, Musical, Movie, Mockumentary, More
Alex Ross Perry’s Pavement movie flips the name of the indie rock band into the plural, Pavements. It’s fitting given the ambitious scope of the film, which is all at once a documentary and musical with an additional film-inside-the-film accompanied by behind-the-scenes footage of that same film topped off with …
Read More »The Teaser for the Pavement Movie Has a Dramatic Version of 'Here' So You Know It's Serious
Stranger Things star Joe Keery makes his hilariously melodramatic debut as indie rock great and leader of the “slacktivism” movement, Stephen Malkmus, in the new trailer for Alex Ross Perry’s Pavement movie, Range Life: A Pavement Story. The film is kind of a mix of, well, everything — rock doc, …
Read More »How Horsegirl Opened Up Their World
H ere they come now, bustling down the street in Brooklyn, three young musicians wrapped in winter coats and chatting animatedly among themselves as they approach the diner on the corner. It’s a chilly Friday in December, just a couple of degrees above freezing, but that’s nothing for this trio …
Read More »Meet Your New Favorite Indie-Rock Supergroup
Some bands make their journey to the Fountain of Rockness to take a sip or two; others merely to gargle. But the Hard Quartet dip their four sets of lips into those waters and drink deep. They gather together for an indie-rock supergroup of kindred spirits, resulting in a shaggily …
Read More »'Pavements' Is Exactly the Type of WTF Rock Doc the Band Deserves
Alex Ross Perry was approached to make a documentary about Pavement. There was a slight hitch: The band kinda sorta did not want a documentary made about them. Or rather, they didn’t want one of those things where fans of the band talk about how amazing the quintet were, in …
Read More »Pavement Book One-Off Concert in NYC Ahead of Doc Premiere
For one night only, Pavement will reunite to brighten the corners of New York City (at least) one last time next month. The group will perform a one-off show at Sony Hall on Oct. 1 to celebrate the release of filmmaker Alex Ross Perry’s new feature film, Pavement(s), which premieres …
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