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Rush Never Sleeps, Plus the Complete Album Guide

Epic bands have come and gone, but Rush are here to stay. For over thirty years, Geddy Lee, Ales Lifeson and Neil Peart have split the difference between big-time arena rock and sci-fi explorations of the nerdiest prog imaginable. Click below for a sample of the feature in the current issue of Rolling Stone, which reveals the band’s insider-only nicknames and what they think of Pavement’s “Stereo.” Also click below for the complete Rush album guide, from their self-titled debut to this year’s Snakes and Arrows Live. • Rush Never Sleeps • Rush: The Complete Album-by-Album Guide [Photo: Dan Winters]

Published: 2008-07-09 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Pavement Return as Indie-Rock Heroes at Debut U.S. Reunion Gig

Photo: Melissa Moore “I’d say it’s nice to be back,” remarked Bob Nastanovich not long into Pavement’s show last night at the Fox Theater in Pomona, California. “But I’ve never fucking been here before!” True enough, Bobby boy. The jocks pumping their fists to “Cut Your Hair,” the chick doing the Phish-fan noodle dance to “Stereo,” the countless balding dudes diluting their beers with tears during “Here” — this was definitely new territory for arguably the greatest indie-rock band of all time.

Published: 2010-04-16 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Live Shows, Rock News

News Ticker: Aerosmith, Pavement, Rob Cavallo, Jawbox

Photo: Kane/WireImage.com Last month, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry admitted he hadn’t spoken to frontman Steven Tyler since their tour was canceled over the latter’s onstage injury. It appears the two have broken the ice: the band will rock a private convention for tech company Oracle next week, Reuters reports. Good news for Pavement fans who like to travel to the U.K.: the band will curate the British All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in May 2010. Rob Cavallo has a new gig: Chief Creative Offi

Published: 2009-10-08 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Morning News Roundup, Rock News

Pavement Nearly Reunites At Nashville Wedding Party

Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Fans clamoring for a Pavement reunion since the seminal indie-rock band parted ways in 1999 almost had their wish fulfilled this weekend as four of the five members descended on a Nashville club to celebrate the engagement of former percussionist Bob Nastanovich, the Nashville Scene reports. The sorta-reunion took place Saturday night, February 21st, at the city’s 5 Spot venue. Rumors began circulating among Nashville indie fans that members of Pavement would reunite at the club that evening. At first, fans who went to 5 Spot were treated to wedding band performances of “Bennie & The Jets” and “Proud Mary’ by members of the Silver Jews. As the crowd swelled to 250, Stephen Malkmus took the stage to sing Redbone’s “Come And Get Your Love” and the O’Jays’ “Love Train.” And then the unlikely happened: Malkmus was joined onstage by Pavement drummer Steve West, bassist Mark Ibold (now of Sonic Youth) and Nastanovich, as well as dozens of partygoers, for what has been reported as a rendition of Bob Sinclair’s “Rock This Party.” Although four fifths of Pavement were onstage together, no Pavement songs were played. According to one commenter at Nashville Scene, Pavement guitarist Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg was also in attendance but didn’t partake in the fun onstage — although photographic evidence has yet to be produced. It’s been 10 years since Pavement called it quits following the release of Terror Twilight, but reunion talk has reached fever pitch this year, especially after Kannberg said “Coachella keep asking our booking agent, but our booking agent’s pretty strong, you know, he’s waiting for the right number.” The Coachella lineup was announced sans Pavement, but there’s always Lollapalooza… Related Stories: •Stephen Malkmus Muses on Dylan, Clubs and Rehearsals •Album Review: Pavement’s Brighten the Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition

Published: 2009-02-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Breaking: Bishop Allen

Who: A Brooklyn-based indie pop band fronted by two Harvard alums — singer-keyboardist Justin Rice and multi-instrumentalist Christian Rudder. The pair met in a mandatory English class in the mid-Nineties and formed a punk band called the Pissed Officers before starting up Bishop Allen, which they named after a Cambridge street. In 2006, the group put out an EP per month, and their third full-length, Grrr … is due in March. Sounds Like: A blend of Los Campesinos! and Yo La Tengo with a twee-folk vibe. The band’s literary influences, like Jorge Luis Borges and G.K. Chesterton, is evident on songs like Grrr …’s “The Ancient Common Sense of Things.” “There’s something cool about writing songs. You think, ‘Yesterday, this song didn’t exist but now it does,’ ” Rice says of the songwriting process. “But there’s something gratifying about playing shows because that you think ‘That thing I made in my room, these people appreciate it and they’ll give me a high-five.’ “ Vital Stats: • Moviegoers might recognize Bishop Allen from their appearance in last autumn’s hipstertastic Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist, where they performed their song “Middle Management.” Rice and Rudder are no strangers to the silver screen: Rice recently starred in the indie film Let Them Chirp Away, while Rudder appeared in 2005’s Funny Ha Ha. • The band has been married to the road in recent years. Rice admits, “We make enough money if we play every night to just keep going, but if we ever stop we’ll be broke.” The band stopped touring long enough to record their new album, using obscure studio equipment like a 1950s Magnerecorder while recording with Bryce Goggin, who has worked with Apples in Stereo, Pavement and Luna. • Bishop Allen have had their share of awkward concerts. “We’ve had a show where the band that played before us unplugged all the power in the club because they wanted to beat us up or something,” Rice says. “They got evicted forcibly by the bouncers. Then we played a Christmas party

Published: 2009-02-04 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Breaking

Coachella - Pavement To Reform

PAVEMENT are considering reforming for an appearance at this year's Coachella festival, it has emerged.The acclaimed indie band split up in 1999 after playing a ...

Published: 2009-01-15 Provider: Contact Music

News Ticker: Amy Winehouse, Taylor Swift, Pavement and My Chemical Romance

Photo:Nikolova/FilmMagic It’s official: Blake Fielder-Civil is filing for divorce from wife Amy Winehouse, citing the singer’s alleged infidelity. Winehouse and Fielder-Civil were married in May 2007. Of course, it didn’t help that Blake Incarcerated was sentenced to 27 months in prison two months after their one-year anniversary. Winehouse has been spotted in the Caribbean, reportedly with a new man. After doing a little acting on SNL this past weekend, Taylor Swift will guest on an upcoming episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Swift’s character Haley Jones is “a teenaged girl whose family runs a seedy Vegas motel. Over the course of a year, Haley goes through a series of changes that have tragic consequences.” The Pavement reunion rumors are sure to run rampant after guitarist Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg said the band has not ruled out a Coachella set. “Coachella keep asking our booking agent,” Kannberg said, “but our booking agent’s pretty strong, you know, he’s waiting for the right number.” While we await official word from a Coachella rep, a list of rumored artists for the California fest was posted yesterday on the Smoking Section. My Chemical Romance’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row,” recorded for the soundtrack of the upcoming Watchmen film, will be released as a 12′’ vinyl picture disc on January 27th. Fans can pre-order the single at the MCR Website. The vinyl’s B-side will be composer Tyler Bates’ “Prison Fight,” taken from Bates’ Watchmen score.

Published: 2009-01-13 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup

Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition by Pavement

The rerelease of the indie-rock band's 1997 album features B-sides and live recordings. [Rock, Indie]

Published: 2008-12-11 Provider: Metacritic

Reunited Legendary Swedish Metallers At the Gates Open Final Tour in NYC

Wading through a sold out Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza last night, every conversation sounded the same: endless variations on “I can’t believe I’m actually seeing At the Gates.” After twelve years of inactivity, a time during which the band’s stature has soared stratospherically in the metal world, the Swedish melodic death metal pioneers reformed this summer for a tour, supposedly the band’s last. Among metal fans, it is the equivalent of Pavement getting back together. At the Gates went out at the top of its game in 1996, a year after releasing Slaughter of the Soul, an album now seen as one of the best of its kind, and almost single-handedly inspired a modern day melodic metal movement that continues to thrive; any given Ozzfest over the last decade has featured numerous At the Gates knockoffs. When the band came onstage and ripped into the album’s title track, shit predictably went nuts. For 65 furious minutes, the band performed nearly all of its landmark album interspersed with songs from its previous releases. Guitarists Anders Björler and Martin Larsson riffed together on “Suicide Nation” with a sharp fluidity, and vocalist Tomas Lindberg barked through “Blinded by Fear” in a forceful tone he wasn’t quite capable of in the band’s heyday, when he was a mere 23 years old. Despite a suffocating mosh pit, it was a remarkably jubilant show: a sea of pumped fists, sweaty, smiling faces, and an audience screaming along with every word. As far as reunions go, it was damn near flawless — especially for music this intense. The gauntlet has been thrown down for Carcass’ return from hibernation this fall, but that’s a metal history lesson for another time.

Published: 2008-07-10 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows

Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily

It was a week of bests here at Rock Daily, where we took a look at the 50 Best Albums of the Year (a list topped by M.I.A., pictured above), Peter Travers’ picks for the Best and Worst Movies of 2007, Forty Reasons We Loved Television in ‘07 and Tech ‘07: The Year’s Best Stuff. To find all our year-end coverage in one handy spot, click here. Jackson Browne stopped by the Rolling Stone offices to remember Dan Fogelberg and once again raise the No Nukes flag with Bonnie Raitt. We listened to LCD Soundsystem, Pavement and John Lennon at high volumes as Joe Levy compared MP3s, CDs and vinyl. Don Henley said the Eagles turned down the Super Bowl halftime show this year, but that the band would welcome a trip to the Grand Ole Opry. A little birdie named Nick Mason planted the idea of a Pink Floyd reunion.

Published: 2007-12-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Coachella Day Two: Portishead, Death Cab, M.I.A., Malkmus, Kraftwerk

Saturday’s late-afternoon primetime sets began just before 5 p.m. at the Outdoor Theatre, where Stephen Malkmus was holding court with the Jicks. After joking about the environmental crisis, he half-heartedly crooned Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun,” adding, “I would have played that if I was over there,” gesturing towards the slightly larger Main Stage. After doodling one of his many lengthy solos during “Elmo Demo” (from the band’s new Real Emotional Trash), Malkmus, outfitted in a giant floppy hat, told the crowd, “That was one was for me. It felt so good to say something so stupid.” Informing the crowd the next track, “Hopscotch Willie,” was actually for them, the band broke into an extended desert jam, with power drummer Janet Weiss playing so integral a role, Malkmus spent the majority of the show turned sideways to partially face her. “These guys are so fucking good, I can’t believe I get to front this shit,” the former Pavement leader concluded. As the mid-day heat finally started to abate, strains of Death Cab for Cutie’s “The New Year” rang out across the Coachella field. Singer-guitarist Ben Gibbard rocked back and forth on his heels in front of several thousands fans at the Main Stage as his band debuted tracks from their new album Narrow Stairs (including winding, dark single “I Will Possess Your Heart” and “Long Division”), which sounded even broodier rubbing up against poppier older favorites like “We Laugh Indoors” and “The Sound of Settling.” Rilo Kiley singer Jenny Lewis carries some glam with her in the form of passionate torch songs and fine threads. Over at the Outdoor Theatre she sang the tortured “I Never” with the lyrics “I’m only a woman of flesh and bone/and I wept much, we all do,” as guitarist Blake Sennett plucked out a romantic Fifties pop melody.

Published: 2008-04-27 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Coachella

Paul McCartney Plans Deluxe “Memory Almost Full,” Morrissey Hits the Studio, Rage and Arcade Fire to Rock Big Day Out

Paul McCartney is brewing up a deluxe edition of his Starbucks-approved semi-new album Memory Almost Full. The reissue, out November 16th on the coffee giant’s Hear Music label, will be accompanied by a live DVD, plus three unreleased songs (“In Private,” “Why So Blue” and “222”). After his current tour ends, Morrissey plans to return to the studio to record the follow-up to 2006’s Ringleader of the Tormentors. Morrissey told BBC News that the album is “absolutely written and completely ready.” The ex-Smiths singer is currently without a record contract, but is weighing an offer from Warner Bros. This year’s Big Day Out Festival, to be held late January to early February in select cities in Australia and New Zealand, will feature performances by Rage Against the Machine, Arcade Fire, Björk, LCD Soundsystem and many more. While you wait anxiously for Matador Records to reissue Pavement’s Brighten the Corners, the label will help pass the time by releasing deluxe, expanded editions of Mission of Burma’s Vs. and The Horrible Truth About Burma in early 2008. Blur’s Alex James has declared that the not-quite-yet-reunited band is still capable of making their “best album ever.” The band, with guitarist Graham Coxon back in tow, had scheduled a lunch this week to discuss returning to the studio to record a follow-up to 2003’s Think Tank.

Published: 2007-10-03 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup