Hear 11 songs to prep for the band’s bizarro documentary, “Pavements.”
Category: Pop and Rock Music
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Turnstile, Hardcore Punk’s Breakout Band, Can’t Be Contained
The Baltimore group toiled in the underground until its 2021 LP blew up. With a new album, “Never Enough,” it’s testing the limits of a genre and a fandom.
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Mike Peters, Frontman of the Alarm, Is Dead at 66
Leading the Welsh band known for 1980s anthems like “Sixty Eight Guns,” he later became a strong voice in the fight against cancer, which he battled for decades.
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‘Pavements’: A Sly Ode to the Last Band You’d Give the Biopic Treatment
Part spoof and part serious, the film is about mythmaking as much as it is about music. The result is delightfully destabilizing.
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Jill Sobule, Singer Behind ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ Dead at 66
Ms. Sobule, 66, died Thursday morning in Woodbury, Minn., her publicist said. She had been scheduled to perform songs from her musical later in the week.
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Stan Love, Athlete With a Beach Boys Connection, Dies at 76
A former N.B.A. player and the father of the All-Star Kevin Love, he was also the brother of the pop group’s Mike Love and a caretaker for its troubled leader, Brian Wilson.
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‘Pavements’ Blurs Fact and Fiction to Reimagine a Band’s Legacy
The director Alex Ross Perry said Stephen Malkmus of Pavement told him to “avoid the legacy trap.” The result is a music documentary with made-up elements that really existed. What?
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What the Cult Singer Daniel Johnston Left Behind
In his music, the songwriter cut to the emotional quick. A new book of his drawings, many never seen before, reveals he did the same in thousands of pieces.
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What Comes After Trauma and a TikTok Hit? Gigi Perez Is Finding Out.
The artist, 25, struck platinum with “Sailor Song.” Her debut album is a tribute to her lost sister, and an attempt to make sense of a few rudderless years.
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What Comes After Trauma and a TikTok Hit? Gigi Perez Is Finding Out.
The artist, 25, struck platinum with “Sailor Song.” Her debut album is a tribute to her lost sister, and an attempt to make sense of a few rudderless years.
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6 (Genre-Smashing) New Songs You Should Hear Now
Hit play on Sleep Token, Cortisa Star, Bon Iver and more.