{"id":126139,"date":"2026-01-09T04:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/126139\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T04:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:01:24","slug":"pavement-returning-to-action-at-mosswood-meltdown-pre-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/126139\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavement Returning To Action At Mosswood Meltdown Pre-Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pavement told fans its one-off October 2024 performance in New York would be its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2024\/10\/pavement-go-back-to-the-90s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last show for a long time<\/a>,\u201d but Stephen Malkmus and company did play two festivals, a warmup club gig and CBS\u2019 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in 2025 while helping promote the off-kilter film Pavements.<\/p>\n<p>In a surprise move, the band will be back in action July 17 at a pre-party for the Mosswood Meltdown festival at Mosswood Park in Oakland, Ca., which will be hosted as usual by auteur John Waters. So far, no other Pavement shows have been announced for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The band will be joined at the pre-party by Wednesday and fellow reunited indie rockers Vivian Girls, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mosswoodmeltdown.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tickets<\/a> are now available. The actual lineup for the festival on July 18-19 will be announced \u201cin the coming weeks,\u201d per organizers.<\/p>\n<p>In other Pavement news, fans can sample audio of a <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/1Kc8ZQtJV9ssTNTqmdesvz?si=aYoiCViRRY6J_CZh-NLhZw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">vintage performance<\/a> of the song \u201cSummer Babe\u201d from a May 19, 1992, show at the Cattle Club in Sacramento, Ca., which is featured in the recent documentary Lourder Than You Think about the band\u2019s onetime drummer Gary Young. \u201cPlease beware: side effects of listening to this may include doing headstands in public,\u201d filmmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSTVV97jOOW\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pavement told fans its one-off October 2024 performance in New York would be its \u201clast show for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[65440,143,145,144,65441,45233,316],"class_list":{"0":"post-126139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-mosswood-mountain","9":"tag-oakland","10":"tag-oakland-headlines","11":"tag-oakland-news","12":"tag-pavement","13":"tag-pushly","14":"tag-wednesday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}