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...ramp and a basketball hoop. They just started their won record label. They have a fanzine, except that since they're big stars, it looks a real magazine. When they get interviewed they point out all of these things, and say "Isn't this crazy?" When, on their last LP Check Your Head, Mike D raps "I live my life just how I like to," it is clearly more than commonplace rap bravado. These guys have it made. They're also in credibly stylish: they started bringing back the '70s way before anyone else thought it was hip (check...
...Pavement. Despite what everyone else is saying, this LP is actually better and much more soulful than "Slanted and Enchanted...
While Pavement's last LP, Slanted and Enchanted, did not make them a household name, or even crack the top 40 for that matter, it was a pretty seminal event in the indie rock world. I personally think it's the best LP released to date this decade, and I probably listened to it three or four times a day for seven months after it came out. You want to get a hold of that record if you like bands like The Velvet Underground. I'm not the only person who felt this way, however: it sold many thousands...
Pavement, the musical phenomenon you may or may not have heard of, has just released its second LP, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. This event is sort of a smaller version of the release of In Utero or Vs. earlier this fall. How would these laid-back rockers respond to the crazed success heaped upon them by the musical industry and the American public, we wondered? Would there be another "Smells Like Teen Spirit...
...pieces are really the "Sister Ray" and "The Gift" of the TKP catalog, the songs themselves being New Zealand's lonely, anguished closest answer to the Velvet Underground; in all honesty, anyone who thinks she or he likes VU would do well to check out these records. The double LP costs the same as the CD and has a very cool foldout lyric sheet; if you can't find either one, send $9.75 to Ajax, P.O. Box 805293, Chicago IL 60680-4114. They also run an illuminating and well-stocked underground rock mailorder business...