The music of Stephen Malkmus can roughly be divided among his three main bands: Pavement, the Jicks, and Silver Jews. For better or for worse, Pavement tend to overshadow the other two—their rough, fuzzed-out music and enigmatic, humorous lyrics made them alt-rock darlings during the genre’s 90s heyday, and their stamp on indie rock has […]
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Stephen Malkmus addresses the politics of today while Portland band Lithics summon the postpunk of the past
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks play a sold-out show with openers Lithics at Thalia Hall on Sunday.
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In Rotation: Cousin Dud’s Dan Schuld on Nina Simone covering Leonard Cohen
Current musical obsessions of Cousin Dud bandmates Dan Schuld and Matt Carmichael
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Artist on Artist: John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants nerds out with Abraham Levitan of Shame That Tune
Artist on Artist: John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants nerds out with Abraham Levitan of Shame That Tune
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Smart Moves
Lloyd Cole The Negatives (March) Stephen Malkmus Stephen Malkmus (Matador) Well-read, wryly funny, emotionally aloof, bookishly handsome–if Lloyd Cole and Stephen Malkmus hadn’t become successful songwriters, they would’ve made charismatic English professors. Instead, each helped define college rock in his respective decade, Malkmus by fronting Pavement through the 90s and Cole by providing the prefix […]
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Pavement
PAVEMENT Rumors have been flying for months that Pavement’s Terror Twilight (Matador), which hits the shelves Tuesday, is to be the band’s swan song. If that’s true, they’re going out with more of a whimper than a bang—but even Pavement’s whimpering beats a lot of other people’s banging. The new album builds on the direct […]
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Class in Session
Pavement is guided by a voice integral to but rarely heard in rock—that of the Privileged White Guy, as played here by Stephen Malkmus. He began with “love” songs set in monied locales like “Here” and “Summer Babe” (the Salinger phase); he’s snapped on hoi polloi pop artists Smashing Pumpkins and Stone Temple Pilots (the […]