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...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...
...been planning to use this week's space for the new Pavement LP, since it's already on the tip of everyone's tongue here in the Rock Music Underground, and since I also happen to like it a lot. FM, however, has told me that I should not do that, because a member of Betty Please is already writing, or has already written, at length on Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain for next week's magazine, and there's no reason for this here "underground music column" to duplicate his work before it even appears. Which I took as meaning...
...much like the Raincoats, and it's also true that even talking about some kind of rock "ecriture feminine" risks shunting all the bands under discussion off into a kind of sidekick phenomenon, making them seem to be "out of the mainstream" of (male-led) rock bands (like, say, Pavement). For that reason I considered not mentioning the Scrawl similarity in this review at all, and even omitting the (interesting, to me) fact that Slant 6 is an all-female band...
...fact, though, if there is another, separate, tradition--and I'm not saying there is--then more than half of the good indie-pop bands functioning today are part of it: if Pavement (see Jake's piece next week) and the Loud Family are acutely conscious of being the end of something, it's an "end" that none of the best current bands led by women are part of, the "end" of something the Rolling Stones started, in which rock and roll was about, specifically, boys' experiences, boys who could or couldn't get no satisfaction. What brings the amazing...