Spiral Stairs of Pavement playing show at Hemlock on Thursday
For Pavement fans lucky enough to catch the seminal band during their 2010 reunion tour (how could you miss that one, though), there was always a strong sense that the shows would be the last of their kind. When I saw Stephen Malkmus and company trot out Gary Young — the bedraggled, drunk hippie who drummed on their masterpiece debut LP, Slanted and Enchanted - I knew I was witnessing something special. It wasn’t just because Young seemed so excited to see his old comrades (after they presumably left him for dead in Modesto) but also because everyone knows that [...]