The reunion story of the year (technically last year), if you haven’t caught wind of it yet, is Pavement. The 90′s art-rock, indie/alternative band that influenced many a band you have spinning on your iPod these days are doing what all the “cool” kids do these days. A year full of tour dates including some essential festival stops will be accompanied by the release of  the best of Pavement album titled Quarantine The Past. Now, I’m not usually one that recommends “best of” albums, but the band has a pretty lengthy catalog of material, and being the creative edgy art rockers that they were, it would take a bit of work to sort through some of the material that at some times can test the listener. The band’s label Matador has compiled a pretty comprehensive collection of tracks from the band, that really does capture the “best of” Pavement.

Quarantine The Past sees release on March 9th, and is well worth the time it takes to make your way through the 23 tracks on the album. Have I mentioned yet, that Pavement is one of my favorite bands of all time? Yepper, I dig these kids.

The remastered “Gold Soundz”

MP3> Pavement ‘Gold Soundz’

Tour dates as of now:

March
1 – Auckland, New Zealand @ Auckland Town Hall
4 – Sydney, Australia @ Enmore Theatre
6 – Meredith, Australia – Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre
7 – Adelaide, Australia – Thebarton Theatre
8 – Perth, Australia – Metro City
10 – Brisbane, Australia @ The Tivoli
12 Melbourne, Australia @ Palace Theatre

April
7 – Tokyo, Japan @ Studio Coast
8 – Tokyo, Japan @ Studio Coast
10 – Osaka, Japan @ Zepp Osaka
12 – Nagoya, Japan @ Zepp Nagoya

May
4 – Dublin, Ireland @ Tripod
5 – Glasgow, Scotland @ Barrowland Ballroom
7 – Paris, France @ Le Zénith
8 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
10 – London, England @ Brixton Academy
11 – London, England @ Brixton Academy
12 – London, England @ O2 Academy Brixton
13 – London, England @ O2 Academy Brixton
15 – Minehead, England @ All Tomorrow’s Parties
18 – Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique
19 – Berlin, Germany @ Astra Kulturhaus
20 – Prague, Czech Republic @ Palác Akropolis
21 – Vienna, Austria @ Arena Wien
22 – Munich, Germany @ Muffathalle
24 – Rome, Italy @ Atlantico Live
25 – Bologna, Italy @ Estragon
27 – Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound
29 – Quincy, Wa. @ Sasquatch! Music Festival
30 – Quincy, Wa. @ Sasquatch! Music Festival
31 – Quincy, Wa. @ Sasquatch! Music Festival

September
21 – New York, N.Y. @ Central Park SummerStage
22 – New York, N.Y. @ Central Park SummerStage
23 – New York, N.Y. @ Central Park SummerStage
24 – New York, N.Y. @ Central Park SummerStage

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 12:30 pm and is filed under mp3's, recommended, Releases, touring news.