Even if Terror Twilight is the least Pavement-y Pavement have ever sounded, it’s still a damn good Pavement album.

What’s presented here is a version of Wowee Zowee that exercises just a little bit more control while still being true to the band’s chaotic spirit.

Groove Denied is simultaneously Malkmus' most unexpected and least captivating album.

Miraculously, of Pavement’s studio albums, Wowee Zowee is the one that has aged the most favorably.

Pavement was one of those bands whose influences were totally audible, but who blasted out a sonic path in a voice that was all their own. The Fall was the obvious reference for the early records, and you can hear them go through Wire and the Byrds and even turn into Stereolab for about 30 seconds on the great Wowee …

As we get acquainted this month with Wig Out at Jagbags, we decided to take a look back at Stephen Malkmus’s pre-Jicks discography – you remember, a little Cali band called Pavement. Read on as staffers Stacey Pavlick and Mike Randall celebrate some of Malkmus’s finest poetry/non sequiturs. Either way you call it, here are some words that resonated. Range …

Sky Blue Sky by Wilco (2007) Drugs help. When Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy went to rehab (no, no, no) in 2004, the band had just come off the masterful one-two punch of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) and A Ghost Is Born (2004), two of the most experimental, sophisticated albums of the decade. Then after he cleaned up, they produced Sky …