IN THE NEWS:
The year 2010 was only about seven months long for SoundSpike -- we officially launched in June. Nonetheless, the photo team wasted no time getting highlights of the summer festival circuit (including Coachella and Lollapalooza) the hottest A-List names ( Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift), reunion and farewell tours ( Pavement, Brooks & Dunn), legendary artists ( Paul McCartney, B.B. King), as well as plenty of rising stars (Ke$ha, Adam Lambert).
"Cut My Hair" was the first song played on one of the last stops of Pavement's summer reunion tour, less a call to arms than an opportunity to get the "hit" out of the way so that this revolutionary-at-the-time indie-rock unit could get on with being themselves.
The Virgin Mobile FreeFest, a free music festival scheduled to take place Sept. 25 at the Washington, DC-area's Merriweather Post Pavilion, will sport a lineup that includes M.I.A., LCD Soundsystem, Pavement, T.I. and Ludacris.
Pavement is currently on the road with one of the more enthusiastically received of the current crop of reunion tours. Their June 24 show in Stockton, CA -- a homecoming of sorts -- garnered enough hometown pride that the band was introduced by the town's mayor, and frontman Stephen Malkmus regaled the crowd with tales of play-spots gone by.
