News comes as Pavement reunite for 2010 gigs

We gave you some information and our assurances on the Pavement reunion yesterday, but there were still plenty of skeptics. Well, here goes: The band is, in fact, reuniting for a one-time-only tour in 2010. The lineup for the tour is Mark Ibold, Scott "Spiral Stairs" Kannberg, Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich, and Steve West, which means Gary Yo...

Wedding receptions offer an ideal opportunity for friends to get wasted, break out the guitars, and play silly, half-remembered covers. And-- according to a report from the Nashville Scene-- that's exactly what happened at Pavement mascot Bob Nastanovich's reception last Saturday at Nashville's The 5 Spot. At one point during the night, all the ...

Hey, remember last year, when a couple of members of Pavement said something about maybe reuniting in an Entertainment Weekly interview and got everyone excited and then did not actually reunite? Well, they're doing it again.It's OK. Breathe. Everything will be all right. But stop listening to what former members of Pavement tell you about maybe...

In January, The Lifted Brow, a biannual "50% fiction and 50% everything else" Melbourne-based magazine, is putting out an issue that includes two CDs with exclusive music from Spiral Stairs, the Magnetic Fields' Claudia Gonson, Frightened Rabbit, and Dan Deacon, among others. One of those others is the Wrens, whose "In Turkish Waters" debuted in...