Showing All "Stephen Malkmus" Posts
Apr 16th 18 Comments
It's that time of the year again, everybody! The best holiday of the year (yes, better than National Ferris Wheel Day AND Leif Erikson Day) has returned. I've been going to Record Store Day since…   Read Story »
Dec 7th, 2012 3 Comments
This past weekend, Stephen Malkmus helped to celebrate the 40th anniversary one of his favorite albums, Can's krautrock masterpiece Ege Bamyasi, by covering the album in full at Week-End Fest in…   Read Story »
Apr 27th, 2012 13 Comments
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 »
Apr 20th, 2012 75 Comments
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 »
Oct 14th, 2011 3 Comments
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 »
Sep 7th, 2011 Comment
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 »
Aug 31st, 2011 4 Comments
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 »
Aug 26th, 2011 1 Comment
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 »
Aug 25th, 2011 Comment
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 fromĀ Mirror Traffic, Malkmus talked…   Read Story »
Aug 24th, 2011 5 Comments
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 »























