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Blogs, Bleader Jun 1, 2018
Stephen Malkmus addresses the politics of today while Portland band Lithics summon the postpunk of the past

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks play a sold-out show with openers Lithics at Thalia Hall on Sunday.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Stephen Malkmus, Jicks, Pavement, Sparkle Hard, Middle America, Lithics, Specs, post-punk

Blogs, Bleader Feb 20, 2014
Reader's Agenda Thu 2/20: The Radio Show, Sour & Wild Beer Night, and Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, February 20
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Kyle Abraham, The Radio Show, Abraham.In.Motion., Alzheimer's, Museum of Contemporary Art, Small Bar Division, Sour & Wild Beer Night, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Pavement, Lincoln Hall, Disappears, Wig Out at Jagbags

Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 22, 2014
Gossip Wolf: Juke Underground drops a globe-spanning comp

Plus: Clearance's slanted and enchanted new EP, a farewell at Laurie's Planet of Sound, and more
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Juke Underground, Tribe National, DJ Avery76, Inside the Tribe, Juke World Order, Vol. 1, Clearance, Pavement, Greensleeve, Microluxe, Hollow Mountain, Earring, MTVghosts, Dispondant, London, Manuel Delacroix, Milan, DJ Fulltono, Osaka, Sonido Berzerk, Veracruz, Mexico, Dance Mania, DJ Slugo, Planet of Sound, Sam O'Rama, Record Store Day

Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2014
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12 O'Clock Track: Stephen Malkmus, still making pretty good music on "Lariat"

"Lariat," the first single off of Malkmus's latest, Wig Out at Jagbags.
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Wig Out at Jagbags, Matador, Pavement, Lariat, Rumble at the Rainbo, Rainbo Club, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2012
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No Alternative Week: The No Alternative album

Looking back at an underappreciated alt-rock compilation
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: No Alternative Week, Music, No Alternative, Nirvana, Pavement, R.E.M., Soul Asylum, Goo Goo Dolls, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Limp Bizkit, Creed, Variations on a Theme, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 15, 2011
This week on the B Side

Overlooked releases from 2011, tons of local music news, and a chat with one of the Wilco dudes
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Music, B Side, Chicago, Jessica Hopper, Gossip Wolf, Pitchfork, Pavement, Old Town School of Folk Music, Chrome Waves, Lovely Little Girls, Wilco, Nels Cline, Jim Elkington, O.W.L., the Bad Plus, Mighty Diamonds, Skeletonwitch, Great Society Mind Destroyers, Sharon Lewis, Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang

Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 15, 2011
Gossip Wolf: The last of Pitchfork’s local editorial staff heads to Brooklyn

Plus: Guilty Pleasures reunite, Bob Nastanovich DJs a hair salon, and more
- By Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Pitchfork, Ryan Schreiber, Amy Phillips, Mark Richardson, Elia Einhorn, Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, Guilty Pleasures, Matt Williams, Jered Gummere, Srini Radhakrishna, garage rock, Chuck Scherbaum, Pavement, Bob Nastanovich, Steve Krakow, Plastic Crimewave, The Secret History of Chicago Music, Galactic Zoo Mix Tape Club

Blogs, Bleader Feb 28, 2011
Pavement Tour Diary: Memories of Hollywood & Matador 21

Jeremy finishes up his year with Pavement as they conquer the Hollywood Bowl and Matador 21. Could there have been a more fitting end?
- By Jeremy Lemos
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Pavement Tour Diary, Pavement, Iron & Wine, business class on United actually has good coffee, Hollywood is weird, Las Vegas is weird, Matador Records, Matador 21, Dave Rat, Rat Sound, U.S. Maple, countdown timers make people nervous, Sonic Youth, Death Valley '69 is a nice way to end an evening, Hollywood Bowl, In-N-Out Burger, Guitar Wolf, fresh coconut juice can save your life, playing basketball in high heels in your hotel room, Death Valley '69 can still make the hair stand up on your neck, banh mi, Where were the Ponys?, Belle & Sebastian, Fucked Up, Spoon, Superchunk, Chavez

Blogs, Bleader Nov 17, 2010
Pavement Tour Diary: Memories of New York

Sound engineer Jeremy Lemos, who's been on tour with Pavement doing monitors, spent a week in New York with the band in September doing five shows and two TV appearances.
- By Jeremy Lemos
- Tags: Music, Pavement Tour Diary, Pavement, Austin City Limits, Iron & Wine, Sonic Youth, living in a daze of traveling and coffee, Ace Hotel, Colbert Report, Stumptown Coffee, Central Park, SummerStage, New York city is the capital of earth, Cafe Habana, Gimme! Coffee, McSorley's Old Ale House, New Wonjo, Oliver Strand, Ace of Cakes

Blogs, Bleader Sep 16, 2010
Pavement Tour Diary: Millennium Park

Pavement's Chicago show, from behind the scenes. And Team Lemos takes a turn on the cowbells!
- By Jeremy Lemos
- Tags: Music, Pavement Tour Diary, Millennium Park, Pavement, coffee, Intelligentsia, Gwen Lemos is pleasing to the eye, bus rides, digital consoles, Jeremy loves Shure microphones, I have a fever and the only prescription is to play the intro of "Silence Kit", Mayor Daley doesn't like rock 'n' roll after ten, hometown card, Ken from Rat Sound picks up my slack, Gage restaurant, good times

Blogs, Bleader Sep 15, 2010
Pavement Tour Diary: Four Days, Three Bands, and Two Countries (Part Two)

In an insane four days, Jeremy works for Iron & Wine, Pavement, and Sonic Youth. Can he pull it off?
- By Jeremy Lemos
- Tags: Music, Pavement Tour Diary, Sonic Youth, Pavement, poutine, Devo, Montreal, Metric, Cafe Myriade, Montreal Pool Room, Iron & Wine, good times

Blogs, Bleader Sep 13, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Monday 9/13

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Lit & Lectures, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Books, The Dialogues Series, No Age, Pavement, Nicole Hollander, Tim Gunn, Le Corbeau, Sleeping and Waking

Blogs, Bleader Sep 13, 2010
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Pavement, No Age at Millennium Park Tonight

A recommendation for No Age and an explanation of Pavement, who play Millennium Park tonight.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Music, Pavement, No Age, Alex Ross, Sasha Frere-Jones, Millennium Park, Video

Music, Soundboard Sep 9, 2010
The List: September 9-15, 2010

Critics' Choices and other notable shows: No Age, Sleep, Oval, Ben Frost, High Places, Joshua Abrams, Thee Oh Sees, and more
- By Jessica Hopper, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, Bill Meyer, Kevin Warwick, and Miles Raymer
- Tags: Soundboard, Marina Diamandis, Marina & the Diamonds, Sleep, Sam Amidon, Lesley Flanigan, Oval, Sonar Chicago, Rangda, Buke & Gass, Ratatat, Ben Frost, High Places, No Age, Pavement, Corridors, Joshua Abrams, Thee Oh Sees, Lincoln Hall, Logan Square Auditorium, Old Town School of Folk Music, Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, Empty Bottle, Riviera Theatre, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, Empty Bottle, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Enemy, Hideout, Lincoln Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music

Blogs, Bleader Sep 8, 2010
Pavement Tour Diary: Four Days, Three Bands, and Two Countries (Part One)

Jeremy works for Pavement, Sonic Youth, and Iron & Wine all in one weekend. In this chapter, the Iron & Wine benefit for the Midwives Alliance of North America hits a few snags.
- By Jeremy Lemos
- Tags: Music, Pavement Tour Diary, Pavement, Iron & Wine, Calexico, Sonic Youth, Austin, Driskill Hotel, Frank Hot Dogs and Cold Beer, the Parkside, Badlands, Terrence Malick, Paramount Theater, Blue Rock Studios, Explosions in the Sky, Patika Coffee, Intelligentsia, union stage hands getting paid too much for how much grumbling they do, mostly good times

Blogs, Bleader Aug 4, 2010
Pavement Tour Diary: Pitchfork

Jeremy comes to the Pitchfork Music Festival with Pavement and reminisces about Pitchforks past. There's some food and coffee in there too.
- By Jeremy Lemos
- Tags: Music, Pavement Tour Diary, Pavement, Big Star, Graham Elliot, Broken Social Scene, Intelligentsia coffee, Michael Phillips, Jarvis Cocker, free jazz, Chicago, Spoon, Johalla Projects, Art of Touring, White/Light, good times, Lula Cafe, Major Lazer, LCD Soundsystem, road cases for disco balls, Shure Microphones, Gossip Wolf, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, iced coffee, Stephen Morrissey, Kingsley Amis, Rockin' Rian Murphy, the High Confessions, Steve Shelley, Sanford Parker, Chris Connelly, Relapse Records, Wormhole Cafe, Publican, Ipsento Cafe, Heather Shouse, Irazu, Cafe Mustache

Blogs, Bleader Jul 22, 2010
Pavement Tour Diary: Memories of Europe (a Prelude to Pitchfork)

Before diving into the massive weekend that we all know as the Pitchfork Festival, I wanted to look back on the last four Pavement shows. Also: I will never miss a Grace Jones show again.
- By Jeremy Lemos
- Tags: Music, Pavement, Roskilde, Broken Social Scene, Cypress Hill, Grace Jones, World Cup, Yara Castanho, Coffee Collective, Coffee, Good Times

Music, Gossip Wolf Jul 22, 2010
The Pfork Report

Art stars shooting rock stars, art rockers eating tacos, false Katy Perry sightings, and more
- By Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Ryan McGinley, Smith Westerns, Cullen Omori, Pavement, Jeremy Lemos, John McEntire, Paul Mertens, Alison Chesley, Helen Money, Broken Social Scene, Katy Perry, Pelican, Alla, Jorge Ledezma, Graham Eliot Bowles, Cap'n Jazz, Dirty Diamonds, Promise Ring, Permanent Records, Heater, Zach McLuckie, Jeremy Freeze

Music, Music Sidebar Jul 15, 2010
The Reader's Guide to the Pitchfork Music Festival

Featuring Pavement, Big Boi, Freddie Gibbs, LCD Soundsystem, Robyn, the Smith Westerns, and more
- By Miles Raymer, Peter Margasak, Kevin Warwick, Liz Armstrong, and Bill Meyer
- Tags: Music Sidebar, PItchfork Music Festival, Union Park, Pavement, Big Boi, Sleigh Bells, Delorean, Modest Mouse, Girls, Freddie Gibbs, Dam-Funk, LCD Soundsystem, American Poster Institute, Flatstock, CHIRP Record Fair, Chicago Independent Radio Project, Coterie, Rock For Kids, Reader's Biker Village, Neon Indian, Liars, Here We Go Magic, Sharon Van Ettan, Bear in Heaven, Ninjasonik, Rory Lake's Karaoke Dreams, Tesco Vee, Bitchpork, Bottom Lounge, Abbey Pub, The Abbey

Blogs, Bleader Jun 17, 2010
Early Warnings Roundup

This week's Early Warnings include Pavement, the Dwarves, Ahmad Jamal, Exodus, Delorean, Unsane, West Fest, the Legendary Pink Dots, the Faint, and School of Seven Bells.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Early Warnings, West Fest, Pavement, Pritzker Pavilion, Unsane, Legendary Pink Dots, Dwarves, the Faint, Exodus, School of Seven Bells, Exodus, Ahmad Jamal

Blogs, Bleader May 20, 2010
Pavement Tour Diary: Brixton Academy (and London Coffee Quest)

Pavement plays four nights at the Brixton Academy, and Jeremy tries to complete his disloyalty card.
- By Jeremy Lemos
- Tags: Music, Food & Drink, Pavement Tour Diary, Pavement, Disloyalty Card, London, Brixton Academy, Gwilym Davies, Flat White, Monmouth, St. John's Bread and Wine, Nude Espresso, Taylor Street Baristas, Stinking Bishop & Jersey Royals, Pitch 42, Espresso Room, Maroush Lebanese, Monocole Magazine, Oliver Spencer, Universal Works, Tina, We Salute You, Climson and Sons, All Tomorrow's Parties, Monotonix, Whiskey, the Fall, Faust, Chainsaws, Omar Soliman, Venom P. Stinger, good times

Blogs, Bleader May 10, 2010
Pavement Tour Diary: Week One in Europe

The first week of Pavement's European tour: Dublin, Glasgow, Paris, and Amsterdam.
- By Jeremy Lemos
- Tags: Music, Pavement Tour Diary, Glasgow, Paris, Dublin, recording with Beck, Volcanic Ash, Gwilym Davies, Dose Espresso, prufrock, London, coffee, Pavement, the National, Amsterdam, Stumptown Coffee, touring, good times

Blogs, Bleader Apr 26, 2010
Pavement Tour Diary: Coachella

Pavement at Coachella! How will it go the second time around?
- By Jeremy Lemos
- Tags: Music, Pavement Tour Diary, Pavement, Coachella, Grizzly Bear, Gill Scott-Heron, Jay-Z, Public Image Limited, Rat Sound, the Specials, festoons, ice cream sandwiches, Spoon, Sunny Day Real Estate, good times

Blogs, Bleader Apr 21, 2010
Pavement Tour Diary: Day Off in Los Angeles

A couple pre-Coachella days off in LA for Pavement. What to do? How about Oaxacan food and the U.S. Barista Championship?
- By Jeremy Lemos
- Tags: Music, Food & Drink, Pavement Tour Diary, Intelligentsia Coffee, Hollywood, coffee, tamales, Pavement, Alterra Coffee, Mark Ibold, Mike Phillips, Scott Lucey, Colin Whitcomb, Liquid Swords, Mole, Elf Cafe, Snoop Dogg's pimp

Blogs, Bleader Apr 19, 2010
Pavement Tour Diary: Nagoya, Japan

Sayonara, Japan! Pavement's monitors engineer describes the last days of the band's Japanese tour and finds the best soba noodles he's ever had. Plus, robocop.
- By Jeremy Lemos
- Tags: Music, Food & Drink, Pavement Tour Diary, Pavement, karaoke, Jim O'Rourke, coffee shop, Nagoya, robots, robocop, airports, soba noodles, chicken wings, beer, good times

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