Brooklyn Vegan — 'Doris and the Daggers' features appearances by Matt Berninger of The National, Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew and Justin Peroff, as well as Kelley Stoltz and Shudder To Think's Adam Wade. Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — Spiral Stairs -- aka Pavement cofounder Scott Kannberg -- is releasing his first solo album since 2009's The Real Feel. It's called Doris & The Daggers, and per Pitchfork it features a number of guests including the National's Matt Berninger, Broken ... more info

Stereogum — We marked Happyness as a Band To Watch due to the appeal of their debut album Weird Little Birthday, an album that combined the classicist indie-rock of Pavement and Yo La Tengo with an absurdist, distinctly British sense of humor. Now the trio is fi... more info

Impose Magazine — North America’s appreciation of New Zealand guitar music dates back to the early 1980s, when bands such as The Clean, The Chills and Sneaky Feelings wormed their way across the Pacific. The influence that that music had on American post-punk has be... more info

Consequence of Sound — Watch episodes starring Thom Yorke, Pavement, David Byrne, Björk, and other musical guests. more info

Stereogum — Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Cindy Lou Gooden makes raw, confessional, fuzzy rock songs under the moniker Very Fresh. She’s set to drop her debut EP, Hey, It’s Me! later this fall after touring with Kino Kimino and Leapling on bass and formin... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Stephen Malkmus played both shows, and was joined by his former bandmate Scott Kannberg for lots of Pavement songs. There were also lots of covers, and a Gary Young headstand. Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — It starts with a line you might yell at an ex across an empty, half-lit parking lot around midnight: “I don’t really wanna die/ I only wanna die in your eyes.” But here it’s not hollered, it’s sung, almost politely so, by David Berman, the ... more info

JamBase — For the second night in a row co-founding members of Pavement shared the stage last night, this time a third former member made a cameo. more info

JamBase — Watch Pavement band mates Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg, aka Spiral Stairs come together to play Pavement tunes as well as Malkmus's cover of "Cocaine." more info