STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS Live at Lee’s Palace (Toronto) February 22, 2014 Review by Eduardo Carli de Moraes It was a chilling night of this long Canadian winter, and Toronto’s streets were all covered with slippery layers of ice and mountains of snow. Radiohead’s words occured to me –...
PAVEMENT “Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain” (1994) Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine: It may be a bit reductive to call Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain the Reckoning to Slanted & Enchanted‘s Murmur — not to mention easy, considering that Pavement recorded a song-long tribute to R.E.M.‘s second album during the Crooked Rain sessions — but there’s a certain truth in that statement all the...