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Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement has just been released.

According to Matador Records:

This fully remastered 23-track compilation will be available on MID-PRICED double LP, CD and digital album formats. The tracks span the entirety of Pavement’s career from 1989 to 1999, from the scratchy and mysterious sounds of their early vinyl-only releases to the rich, multilayered warmth of their final recordings. Although the compilation does not include any unreleased material, it definitely digs deeper than the hits.

It precedes their first live dates since 1999, including dates in the UK in London and Glasgow and at All Tomorrow's Parties and ends with 4 dates in Central Park, New York in September 2010.

Last night saw the launch of the UK Americana compilation Divided By A Common Language at the Lexington in London. Bands on the night included The Snakes, Alan Tyler, Two Fingers Of Firewater and The Hi and Lo. Other bands on the album include The Redlands Palamino Company, The Barker Band and the Cedars. (Whole tracklisting is here: Divided By A Common Language)

There's also an article on Clubhouse Records and the compilation at The Times Online entitled Hoedown In The Home Counties.

For more of the same there's Come Down And Meet The Folks and Honky Tonkin' Sundays in London on alternate weekends, as well as What's Cookin' sometimes 2 or 3 times a week in London.

Emit Bloch / Piney Gyr, Tripping In The Country 5th Birthday - Slaughtered Lamb, EC1
Gantura, Lyla Foy - The Social, W1
Come Down And Meet The Folks: The Moon Music Orchestra, Her Make Believe Band, Ben Thomas, Steve Curtis - DJ Ski

 

28th - Big Star / Robyn Hitchcock - Shepherd's Bush Empire 
23rd - HeadSpace / Deviant Hearts - Hope & Anchor, Islington

Morrissey (with Siouxsie, Beck, New York Dolls, Wombats, The National) - Hyde Park, Wireless Festival - 5th July
Carmen (opera) - Arena di Verona, Italy - 10th July

Gigs I've been to this month

Alpha Zero - Fiddler's Elbow, Camden
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (with The Cribs) - Shepherd's Bush Empire
Gong (with Graham Coxon) - Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, SE1
Stiff Little Fingers / Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Royal Festival Hall
The Charlatans - Indig02
Radiohead (with Bats For Lashes) - Victoria Park
Television Personalities - The Wilmington

11th December - Led Zeppelin - 02 Arena, London
14th December - Kaiser Chiefs, We Are Scientists, Little Ones - Earl's Court, London
15th December - BBC World Service 75th Anniversary concert (Silicon/Carbon, Katie Melua) - IndigO2, London
19th December - Pete Molinari - Medicine Bar, Islington, London
21st December - Holly Golightly - Boston Music Rooms, Tufnell Park, London