In early 1989, a band named Pavement released their debut, a five song EP titled Slay Tracks, centered on the now immortalized “Box Elder” and its jangly ramble about cutting ties en route to some nonexistent Missourian podunk. These facts are, of course, merely minutia, and the worst of all minutiae at that—the masturbatory kind that anyone who actually cares already knows. After all, this blog isn’t about Pavement or its rise to semi fame [Whew!], though the band will almost certainly factor prominently in the site’s content [Shit…]. This blog is about Matt’s and my traipse around what we expansively (and often paradoxically) dub “pop” music. Like most of our favorite bands, this journey may well be leveled with charges of ramshackledness and catawampity. That’s fine. We’re just going to write about whatever tracks, albums, artists we can’t get enough of at any given moment—or, as Matt put it to me, an “I-just-picked-this-up-and-I-wanted-to-share-it type thing,” which if I remember correctly STP wrote a song about a while back. Hopefully you and (more importantly) we will enjoy the trip. But anyway, that answers your question, right?