Pavement — artist
Pavement has 1 upcoming show, next at PIEDMONT PARK on Sat, Sep 19. Dates, venues and tickets on Ckord.
For more than a decade, Matador Records has chosen to ignore the ongoing (and, as social media caught on, increasingly not-so-polite) demands of ardent Pavement fans who have pined for a deluxe reissue of the band’s much-loved fifth and final album, ‘Terror Twilight’. Some frustration is warranted. After all, we did put out comprehensive special edition sets covering every other Pavement studio album. The truth is that we were just holding out for them to play some shows again. On April 8th, Matador will release ‘Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal’, an exhaustive 45-track set compiling the remastered original album, B-sides, home demos, rehearsal tapes, era-appropriate live recordings, and even the rough tracks from Pavement’s scrapped session at Sonic Youth’s Echo Canyon studio. Altogether, it features 28 unreleased tracks. Today, you can listen to the never before heard full-band track “Be The Hook”. The 4xLP and 2xCD editions will include a book with never-before-seen photos and commentary/context from band members Mark Ibold, Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich, Spiral Stairs, and Steve West as well as producer Nigel Godrich. The LP will restore Godrich’s suggested sequence – which foregrounds the album’s headiest songs – while the CD preserves the final track order assembled by the band. Originally released in 1999, ‘Terror Twilight’ marked a departure from Pavement’s established operating methods. Which is to say that it was recorded with a big-time producer in an expensive studio. However, for all the talk of “polish” and “precision” it’s still very much a Pavement record. And a great one. Like every Pavement album that preceded it, ‘Terror Twilight’ thrills and confounds. Often at the same time. Twenty-two years on, the songs remain moody, strange, and eminently deserving of re-celebration.
Pavement upcoming shows
- Shaky Knees Music Festival — PIEDMONT PARK — Sep 19, 2026
Pavement past shows
- Pavement — Ryman Auditorium — Jul 28, 2026
- Pavement — Ryman Auditorium — Jul 27, 2026
- Pavement — The National — Jul 25, 2026
- Pavement + More at MAKE THE WORLD BETTER PRESENTS — Dell Music Center — Jul 24, 2026
- Pavement — Agora Theatre — Jul 23, 2026
- Pavement with Nap Eyes — The Salt Shed Outdoors (Fairgrounds) — Jul 22, 2026
- Pavement — Palace Theatre-MN — Jul 21, 2026
- Pavement — Woodland Park Zoo — Jul 19, 2026
- Pavement — Brooklyn Steel — Sep 14, 2023
- Pavement — Brooklyn Steel — Sep 13, 2023