There’s an inherent problem with writing about Pavement, and the problem is this: People tend to know nothing or everything about them. There are very few “casual” Pavement fans. To most of the music populace, they were a band with a funny name, one minor MTV hit (1994’s “Cut Your Hair”), and a lot of abstract credibility among people who get mad at the radio. They view Pavement as a minor act. But to the kind of hyperintellectual, underemployed people who did not find it strange to buy concert tickets a year in advance, Pavement is the apotheosis of indie aesthetics, the “finest rock band of
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