Pavement

Pavement was an indie-rock band of the 1990s. Though not commercially successful, they achieved a significant cult following, and their music influenced that of many more popular bands of the late 1990s and beyond.

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Pavement was an indie-rock band of the 1990s. Though not commercially successful, they achieved a significant cult following, and their music influenced that of many more popular bands of the late 1990s and beyond.

The band formed in Stockton, California, in 1989 as a studio project of guitarists and vocalists Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg, known originally only as "S.M." and "Spiral Stairs." Their debut EPs, Slay Tracks (1933-1969), Demolition Plot J-7 and Perfect Sound Forever, were recorded at the studio of drummer Gary Young and consisted of lo-fi songs highly influenced by The Fall. (Later, a British music magazine would play Mark E. Smith, the central member of The Fall, Pavement's "Two States," telling him it was an old Fall B-side. He believed them.)