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From the Album 1. Silence Kid 2. Elevate me Later 3. Stop Breathin 4. Cut Your Hair 5. Newark Wilder 6. Unfair 7. Gold Soundz 8. 5-4=Unity 9. Range Life 10. Heaven Is A Truck 11. Hit the Plane Down 12. Fillmore Jive


From the Single Cut Your Hair

Other Songs 5-4= Unity Angel Carver Blues Angel Carver Blues/Mellow Jazz Docent Ann Don't Cry AT&T Baptiss Blacktick Best friends arm Billie Black out Blue Hawaiian Box Elder Brink of the Clouds Brinx job Camera Carrot Rope Cherry Area Conduit for Sale! Conduitforsale Cream of Gold Date w/IKEA Date With Ikea Debris Slide Decouvert de Soleil Embassy Row Extradition Fame Throwa Father to a Sister of Thought Fight this Generation Fin Flux = Rad Folk Jam Forklift Fragment of Wounded Kite From Now On Frontwards Give It a Day Grave Architecture Greenlander Grounded Half a Canyon Hands Off The Bayou Harness Your Hopes Harness Your Hopes (B-Side) Here Home I Love Perth In the Mouth a Desert In the Mouth of a Desert In The Mouth Of The Desert Infinite Spark Jackals False Grails: The Lonesome Era Kennel District Lions (Linden) Lorettas Scars Major Leagues Maybe Maybe Mercy: The Laundromat Motion Suggests My First Mine My Radio Nail Clinic No Life Singed Her No Tan Lines Old to Begin Our Singer Painted Soldiers Passat Dream Perfect Depth Perfume V Perfume-V Platform Blues Price Yeah! Pueblo Raft Rattled by the Rush Recorder Grot Recorder Grot (Rally) Roll With the Wind Rooftop Gambler Saganaw Same Way Of Saying Serpentine Pad Shady Lane Shady Lane/J vs. S She Believes Shoot the Singer (1 Sick Verse) So Stark (You're a Skyscraper) Soiled Little Filly Speak, See, Remember Spit On A Stranger Spizzle Trunk Stare Starlings In The Slipstream Starlings of the Slipstream Stereo Strings Of Nashville Summer Babe Texas Never Whispers The Hexx The Killing Moon The Porpoise and the Hand Grenade Transport is Arranged Trigger Cut Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite at :17 Two States Type Slowly Unseen Power of the Picket Fence We Are Underused We dance Western Homes You Are A Light Your Time to Change Youre Killing Me Zurich Is Stained
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Pavement is an American indie rock band that formed in Stockton, California, in 1989. For most of their career, the group consisted of Stephen Malkmus (vocals and guitar), Scott Kannberg (guitar and vocals), Mark Ibold (bass), Steve West (drums), and Bob Nastanovich (percussion and vocals). Initially conceived as a recording project, the band at first avoided press or live performances, while attracting considerable underground attention with their early releases. Gradually evolving into a more polished band, Pavement recorded five full-length albums and ten EPs over the course of their decade-long career, though they disbanded with some acrimony in 1999 as the members moved on to other projects. In 2010, they undertook a well-received reunion tour, followed by another international tour from 2022 to 2024.

Though only briefly attracting mainstream attention with the single "Cut Your Hair" in 1994, Pavement was a successful indie rock band. Rather than signing with a major label as many of their 1980s forebears had done, they remained signed to independent labels throughout their career, including Flying Nun and Matador.

They have often been described as one of the most influential bands to emerge from the American underground in the '90s. Some prominent music critics, such as Robert Christgau and Stephen Thomas Erlewine, called them the best band of the 1990s. They have achieved a cult following.
Members:
Scott Kannberg - guitar, backing and lead vocals (1989-1999, 2010, 2022-present), bass (1989-1991), keyboards (1994-1999)
Stephen Malkmus - lead vocals, guitar (1989-1999, 2010, 2022-present)
Mark Ibold - bass guitar, backing vocals (1991-1999, 2010, 2022-present)
Bob Nastanovich - percussion, synthesizers, harmonica, backing and occasional lead vocals (1991-1999, 2010, 2022-present)
Steve West - drums, percussion (1993-1999, 2010, 2022-present)

Former members:
Gary Young - drums (1989, 1989-1993, one-off 2010; died 2023)
Jason Turner - drums (1989)
From: Stockton, California, U.S.
Genre(s): Indie rock, slacker rock, alternative rock
Active From: 1989-1999, 2010, 2022-2024
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