Gen X parents, Gen Z kids rejoice: Pavement has a new gold record

The cantankerous '90s indie rockers have their first gold record after an unlikely TikTok revival.

If TikTok is eventually banned in the U.S., at least Pavement will have a gold record to show for it. The acerbic Stockton indie rockers, beloved for their spiky guitar interplay and frontman Stephen Malkmus' bone-dry wit, released a number of rock-critic-beloved albums in the '90s for indie label Matador, and returned as festival favorites in the 2010s.

Malkmus was just as confused as the public by the song's ascent — “I heard it was on a playlist or something,' he told Stereogum. 'I’m not an expert on Spotify but, you know, one of those ‘Monday Moods’ or whatever the f— they do.” It's not the first time an obscure Gen X indie single found a second wind via inscrutable streaming bumps. “Strange” by Galaxie 500 had a smaller but even more unexpected bounce there.

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