Brooklyn Vegan — Former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland passed away yesterday, and was honored in tweets by Dave Navarro, Krist Novoselic, and more. Today, another '90s alt-rock musician wrote a long eulogy for him, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Martin Courtney @ BVCMJ 2015 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Real Estate's Martin Courtney has been covering Pavement's "Major Leagues" at some of his solo shows, like at the BrooklynVegan CMJ day party at Baby's All Right. He and his band... more info

Stereogum — Real Estate frontman Martin Courtney released his first solo album, Many Moons, at the end of last week, and he stopped by the SiriusXM studios to promote it. While there, in addition to performing a few tracks from the record, he did a cover of Pave... more info

Stereogum — The Crooked Corners are a Pavement cover band from Nashville who claim to provide their fans with “the ultimate Pavement experience,” and during their hometown performance at the Stone Fox last week, they were greeted by two of their heroes. As S... more info

Stereogum — Around the time of 2010 career pinnacle Halcyon Digest, it became clear that Deerhunter were the greatest indie rock band of their generation. By “indie rock” I mean the fertile niche of guitar-driven noise-pop pioneered by the Velvet Underground... more info

Stereogum — As soon as it was announced that the first proper band appearing on Stephen Colbert’s version of the Late Show would be a mysterious Paul Simon tribute act called Troubled Waters, it was kind of assumed to be a joke. Maybe it was a reunited Pavemen... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Hooton Tennis Club UK band Hooton Tennis Club released their debut album, Highest Point In Cliff Town, a couple weeks back. Somewhere between Pavement and the Pastels, it's a return to the kind of indie that often... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Liverpool's Hooton Tennis Club's debut album, Highest Point In Cliff Town will be out next week (8/28) in North America and is a fun mix of shambolic influences: part Pavement, part Pastels. Check out a couple tracks... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Unlike others from their decade (the 90s), Pavement, especially in the early years, left off as many a gem as they included on their proper LP output. And as recently stated by Malkmus and Kannberg, the “B-sides” from this era (almost) form a sor... more info

Stereogum — Perry Farrell’s inaugural Lollapalooza festival-tour launched in the summer of 1991, and it returned every year till 1997, after which it went on hiatus for a while. The last “classic” Lollapalooza lineup, though, came in 1995, when the tour fe... more info