Weiss, meanwhile, drummed for the indie rock groups the Jicks (the backing band of former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus) and Quasi.
(Sinagra) STEPHEN MALKMUS (Tuesday) The abstract poetic songwriting and quirky, blazing guitar work of the former Pavement frontman are still worth checking out.
Newcomers include former Pavement songwriter Spiral Stairs, aka Scott Kannberg, Death from Above 1979 singer/drummer Sebastien Grainger, as well as members of the Weakerthans and Sea and Cake.
The former Pavement frontman Malkmus is also seen playing with The Jicks in this moody, evocative video.
One of the places he's been is 1994, at which time his former band, Pavement, put out their second album, "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain".
With the Jicks, his band based in Portland, Ore., Stephen Malkmus, the famously nonchalant former frontman of Pavement, gives his devotees exactly what they desire: pop that is both highly engaging and evasive, played with the utter self-assurance that no matter what tangent it takes, the right sort of listener will follow.
A feature of central York is the Snickelways, narrow pedestrian routes, many of which led towards the former market-places in Pavement and St Sampson's Square.
Another court order prevented us from returning to the building so we served an uncooked Christmas lunch yesterday on the pavement outside the former bank.
"Jockin-sir" is what thousands of former and present slum and pavement dwellers in Mumbai call Jockin Arputham, the founder of the National Slum Dwellers Federation (NSDF) and president of Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI).
A group of squatters, known as the "Love Activists", have provided an uncooked Christmas lunch to homeless Londoners on the pavement outside the former bank they had been occupying, after they were evicted from the premises on Christmas Eve morning.
Presenting his new band, the Jicks, on Thursday at the Bowery Ballroom, the famously nonchalant former frontman of the band Pavement gave devotees exactly what they came for: pop that was both highly engaging and evasive, played with the utter self-assurance that no matter what tangent it takes, the right sort of listener will follow.
