What to Make of Pavements

What to make of Pavements

Pavement is remembered as the epitome of ’90s slacker rock, southern California ironists who sang-talk impenetrable lyrics over meandering guitar licks, feedback, and toy instruments. With the advantage of hindsight, and with the disadvantage of living in a TikTok-ruled cultural…

What to make of Pavements - Washington Examiner

Pavement is remembered as the epitome of ’90s slacker rock, southern California ironists who sang-talk impenetrable lyrics over meandering guitar licks, feedback, and toy instruments. With the advantage of hindsight, and with the disadvantage of living in a TikTok-ruled cultural hellscape where nothing seems that serious or that real, it’s finally obvious that Pavement made some of the most focused, profound, and least ironic music in the entire…

‘Pavements’ Doesn’t Just Break the Biopic Mold—It Shrugs at the Pieces

There’s a lot of fake stuff in Alex Ross Perry’s new meta movie about Pavement, but it ends up saying something more real than anything more traditional ever could

Pavements - Spectrum Culture

We all know Hollywood loves a good movie biopic, but what happens when the band you want to make a film about is the type of band that resists the sort of pandering, emotional fluff said biopics are often known for? Such is the case with Pavement, one of the early ‘90s greatest underground indie bands that could have been the biggest band in the fucking world if only they didn’t care so much about, well, not being the biggest band in the fucking…