STEPHEN MALKMUS

As Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg were putting together 'Slanted and Enchanted,' they were also turning Pavement into a real band.

Bob Nastanovich of Pavement and Silver Jews recounts the legendary Kentucky Derby house parties he threw during indie rock's heyday.

In a new episode of the Talkhouse Podcast, Stephen Malkmus sat down with Emil Amos, the drummer for bands Grails and Om, to go over a range of things: from Elliott Smith's gear fetish, to his adolescent fan days, to "kids" making '90s indie again. Among the juiciest nuggets are the details surrounding the production of Terror Twilight, the final Pavement record, which was made with Nigel Godrich. Besides Scott West having to sit out on a song or two, Malkmus talked about how the record suffered from production bloat: That was a real, classic rock, overproduced, $100,000 record. With that much money you should be able to make something good. We made some things that weren’t as good as they could’ve been. There was a big argument about the order of the songs. No one really cares about this album that much. had a certain order that was with a difficult song first, like Radiohead’s OK Computer that had a longer more challenging song to set the tempo. Scott in our band, and the other ones,

For the latest installment of the Talkhouse Music Podcast, Pavement's Stephen Malkmus sat down for a conversation with Emil Amos of Om, Grails, and Holy Sons. Their discussion touches on everything from Elliott Smith's love of recording gear to indie rock's '90s revival to, as Pitchfork points, Pavement's experience working with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich on 1999's Terror Twilight, which Malkmus calls "overproduced": The only time we used a producer was with Nigel Godrich, who all engineers and studio people rightfully are in awe of. He’s pretty much the alpha of new-generation producers. He was interested in Pavement. He and Radiohead were fans of and Wowee Zowee. He told us he had time off and would like to do . He also did Beck’s Mutations which he was really proud of. He played me some of that. So that’s when we used one and I didn’t know what that was going to entail. But he was cool. He was like “I just want my percentage points, you don’t even have to pay me a fee. I’m

Pavement changed its approach for the band's fourth album, released in February 1997, rehearsing before the sessions and working with a pair of producers.

Donald Trump takes office today (January 20), but many in the indie rock world aren't giving him a particularly warm welcome. Another anti-Trump ...

For the second night in a row co-founding members of Pavement shared the stage last night, this time a third former member made a cameo.

Scott Kanneberg AKA Spiral Stairs of Pavement talks about -- what else? -- music and his old friend.