That adorable face you see above belonged to one Stephen Malkmus, back when he was a junior in high school. It comes from a Santa Barbara high school newspaper profile of Malkmus, presumably the…   Read Story »

Where were you in '92. The music world was fascinated by "alternative rock," which was culturally ascendent and extremely commercially viable: 120 Minutes held sway, Nirvana were a year into (and…   Read Story »

The Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks song "Senator" has a video now, and it's a doozy. Jack Black, hamming it up hardcore as always, plays an unstable, cattle prod-wielding politician who tries to party…   Read Story »

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks already have a video for one Mirror Traffic song, "No One Is (As I Are Be)." And now there's another one, for "Tigers." Malkmus and his band don't actually show up in…   Read Story »

Last night Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks took Mirror Traffic's "Senator" to Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, though it didn't appear that Malkmus had indeed swapped out the song's lyric "blow job" for…   Read Story »

Corn dog enthusiast Stephen Malkmus dropped into the East Village's Other Music last night to stump for the recently released Mirror Traffic. He played a previously unheard new song, "Independence…   Read Story »

Fresh off their performance at Amoeba Records, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks stopped by the Village Studios for two "rock blocks" for KCRW. Performing eight songs from Mirror Traffic, Malkmus talked…   Read Story »

Last night in a live webcast celebrating the release of Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks' solid Beck Hanson-produced LP Mirror Traffic, Mr. Malkmus announced the winner of the band's contest to find a…   Read Story »

Through most of Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks' "No One Is (As I Are Be)" clip, all we see is Malkmus singing and making droll faces at the camera while seemingly random athletic footage is projected…   Read Story »

On 8/23, Matador releases Mirror Traffic, the new Jicks album produced by Beck Hansen. It's been in the can since early 2010 but held back until this year, when the dust had settled from Pavement's…   Read Story »