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MUSIC Pavement. That's all I really associate with Stockton. Personally, I've only been there once, few weeks back on my way to Yosemite, and I just drove through — 205 to 120 — stopping once for gas. So pavement all the way.

Staten Island Advance File PhotoStudents from the Barnes Intermediate School marching band, complete with a large parental escort, hit the pavement during the 15th annual Great Kills Memorial Day/Armed Forces Day Parade. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Staten Island will celebrate...

Every Sunday, people bring out their souped-up cars and lay rubber on the pavement.

If you have a list of alternative icons you’d love to get into but don’t know where to start, get ready to cross some of them off with our new feature PRIMER, in which we guide you through the highs, lows, and occasional confusing bits of the careers of renowned indie icons.

A week from today, teams will take to the pavement to raise money for cancer research and treatment when the American Cancer Society Navarro County Relay for Life finally takes place.

This is hard to believe, but there was actually a time when people didn't take Radiohead seriously. Shocking, right? But back when their first album was named after a Jerky Boys reference ( Pablo Honey , look it up ) and their first hit was about being a weirdo ("Creep"), it was pretty easy to box Radiohead in as slacker Brit Beck / Pavement wannabes. Who knew then that same band would come out ...

North Carolina's Archers of Loaf are one of the best bands to come out of the alternative-rock explosion of the 1990s. A noisy, guitar-driven group with witty, sarcastic lyrics, the Archers were often compared to indie-rock stalwarts Pavement, the Replacements and Sonic Youth.

The cement pavement on Kim Il-Sung square in Pyongyang shook as dozens of divisions of the Korean People’s Army goosestepped to a military brass band in perfect synchrony. Later came the big guns: Soviet-era military trucks drove in parade formations carrying missile launchers, drone airplanes and heavy rockets, the pride of the North Korean army.

While the cutting desert sun rose in the east, globs of grease dripped from Allan Currier's body.

A Sat. Nite Duets song is the indie-rock equivalent of a sock monkey -- the Milwaukee band's sound is fuzzy, patched together, and almost as puzzling as it is likable. A certain offhand optimism comes naturally to the band, as do defiantly scraggly guitar leads, so it's become obligatory to point out they sound like Pavement (and also that they sometimes get naked on album covers).

Venerable rock band The Cult will hit the pavement hard this summer with the first leg of its 2012 North American tour. The 20-date trek is set to kick off on Friday, May 25 in San Diego, CA bringing the band's incendiary rock energy to major and secondary markets across the continent.