Pavement
News: Pavement Announce ‘Cautionary Tales: Jukebox Classiques’ Limited 18-Record Box Set Of The Complete 7″ singles 1989-1999
Cautionary Tales: Jukebox Classiques is a limited-edition box set featuring Pavement’s complete catalog of 7” singles released 1989-1999. It will include 18 records total, covering music originally released on Treble Kicker, Drag City, Matador, Big Cat, and Domino. All are faithfully reproduced with original artwork, plus a 24-page threaded saddle-sewn booklet and full discographical history. …
EP REVIEW: The Illness – ‘Descending’/’Phrases Redacted’: alt rock gets the tronica feels on cassette
HERE at Backseat Mafia, we’re really quite fond of The Illness. No, god, not that one – not the year-destroying one; we’re talking the Transpennine band who’ve been something of an in-house Wrecking Crew for York’s Sea Records, and who finally got their name up on their own 12”, “Descending”/”Phrases Redacted” back in July. We …
SEE: The Illness’s ‘Descending’ gets Pavement on board
TIMES of no travel aren’t a restriction to collaborating on great music in this fibre-optic world of ours: as proved by The Illness’s crackingly worldly-wise slice of transatlantic indie-leaning guitarpop, “Descending”, out on 12” next week. And today the band have released the video for the track as a taster: you can watch below. The …
News: Matador’s “Revisionist History” continues with Wowee Zowee
Hot off the heels of their announcement of Guided By Voice’s Alien Lanes reissue, illustrious label Matador Records continue with their “Revisionist History” series by celebrating the 25th anniversary of seminal indie outfit Pavement’s Wowee Zowee with a three-song shaped picture disc. Originally released 25 years ago on April 11, 1995, Wowee Zowee was Pavement’s 3rd studio …