Wish you were in New Zealand for the first gig of Pavement’s 2010 reunion tour? So do we. Thanks to the internets there’s all sorts of video coverage being posted to YouTube.
Check out the their tour schedule on Matador. Although most dates are overseas, there are stops at Coachella, Sasquatch, four days in Central Park [...]

Oh, good God, that picture is awful. Sorry about the nightmares, folks.
Quick piece of fun reading courtesy of our second favorite-ist sports blog in the world, Deadspin (KSK still rules all). Apparently, Stephen Malkmus has a serious fantasy basketball jones and talks about it with Rotoworld’s Steve Alexander, who plays in a league with the [...]

This made the rounds throughout the music press last week: A South Korean commercial for Hyundai Capital (a financial offshoot of Hyundai Automotive Group) using Pavement’s “Stereo,” the lead-off track to 1997’s Brighten the Corners. And you thought Hyundai just made crappy cars, huh?
Anyway, the commercial splices together opening bits to “Stereo” with cars, houses [...]

It’s that time of year again — the turkey leftovers are long gone and we’re hearing Christmas music in every store in town, so it must be time for best-albums-of-year lists.
After screaming matches, insults and a fist fight or two, the dust has settled and the Stranger Dance staff stands before you united with our [...]

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Great interview with Scarface, who’s whole tortured gangster persona has always made him one of the more intriguing rappers out there. [The Smoking Section]
Animal [...]

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Is “Little Dealer Boy” a new Christmas classic? Umm, yes. [Wired Listening Post]
The coming Colbert/Kanye apocalypse will spare nobody (yes, we’re on a Colbert [...]

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Chuck Klosterman fears the bear with cornrows that is Axl Rose, and reviews Chinese Democracy. [I Am Fuel, You are Friends]
Former Wilco member Jay [...]

Well, not really, but you’ll see what I mean …
Like any good Pavement fan, I was very excited to find out from Stranger Jay yesterday that Pavement’s 1996 masterpiece – and my favorite Pavement album – Brighten the Corners is going to be remastered and re-released on Nov. 18. (Unlike any good Pavement fan, I [...]

I never in my wildest dreams would have thought that this existed, nor would I have ever imagined it listenable had I known that it did, but yes, a Jay-Z/Pavement mashup album has been made. And, you know what, it’s not actually that bad. In fact, it’s pretty cool.
My never-ending mancrush on all things Pavement [...]

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