Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins is a double album by
Pavement released on October 26, 2004. It contains the band's second album,
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994) in its entirety, as well as 37 of the band's other songs from that era, 25 of which (the entire second disc) were previously unreleased. The album also contains a 62-page booklet of
liner notes, which contain photographs, artwork, accounts from vocalist/guitarist
Stephen Malkmus and guitarist
Scott Kannberg (aka "Spiral Stairs"), and notes Malkmus wrote for
Melody Maker about each of the songs on the original album. The liner notes also feature a surreal and sensationalistic "interview" between Matador's
Gerard Cosloy and the fictitious "Rob Jurkface". According to Cosloy, he took questions by Pavement's biographer,
Rob Jovanovic, changed them slightly, and wrote silly answers for them.