Stephen Malkmus

gimme Jenny & the Ess Dog over every note Zappa ever played

I don't particularly love "Jenny" but I love that it's a clear statement that he's not invested in making "important" "challenging" music or pandering to snobs

Another great passage:

Heidecker: You gotta be happy for Mike Campbell a little bit, I guess. He wasn’t expecting Tom Petty to die.

Malkmus: He wants to play.

Heidecker: He was like, “Get me out there! I can earn!”

Malkmus: I met him just the other day. I played at this benefit for Jerry Garcia’s charity in Los Angeles. They had Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell. Campbell was backstage. He came in the room, and he was dressed like a rock star: scarves, that Rolling Stones scarve-y look.

Heidecker: Floppy hat.

Malkmus: A bit of West Coast grizzle. He walked by, and he looked a little like that one Grateful Dead album with the skull wearing the top hat and shiny glasses.

Heidecker: He’s struttin’.

Malkmus: He strutted by and he went, “Yeah, Pavement, man.” That’s all he said. Kind of in a lizard voice, “Pavement, man. Yeah.” Then he was out.

I don't particularly love "Jenny" but I love that it's a clear statement that he's not invested in making "important" "challenging" music or pandering to snobs

― rip van wanko, Monday, September 17, 2018 5:20 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The addition of the quotation marks around those words is the most "Malkmus fan" thing ever

Anyway, long live important and challenging music, death to condescending half-assed 90s dweebdom

dweezil?

lol

important and challenging, two things Zappa is not

omg we got an important and challenging music guy in 2018!

Jenny & The Ess-Dog is great, the first song on the s/t ("Black Book") is the one that nobody likes.

frank zappa is okay

he's the type of guy the typical ilxor would strive to be though so you get a feeling he's really important when he really is not

stevie seems more chill and has a more dgaf attitude which is a very 90s thing, so idk, my heart gravitates to that vibe

and has a more dgaf attitude

ACTUALLY it's dadgaf...

trü

Stephen Malkmus (@dronecoma)'s shelved electronic album 'Groove Denied' out in March https://t.co/96bhdYgjXR pic.twitter.com/sROG7PRfMt

— Stereogum (@stereogum) January 18, 2019

he’s been working on it for 12 or 13 years

!

color me curious

cautiously looking forward to this

It’s gotta be better than his “rock” musik at this point...

i dunno, i like his rock stuff still — last one was very strong. I think he's just made good solo albums as opposed to great ones.

As the world's biggest Modulate fan I'm pretty excited.

Some of it sounds fairly rock-y: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsvd5WtBth9/

Feel like the vibes are older than 13 years...

Malkmus & ex-GF Heather larimer - "Robyn Turns 26" (2000) comp track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsuhYhExk_M

Malkmus - "Sin Taxi" (2001) b-side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiyApoXUt_8

Yeah, I also thought of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3n6Y6OGS78

Awesome cover

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5c472ed66250af5b8085ccf6/master/pass/Malkmus.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlC8uz47qGo

Ugh.

Jesus, that is bad

yeah, not good

groove should have been denied

if sparks weren't good at all.

hmm that's not great

It sounds a lot like something off New Traditionalists (I think?) but I can't place it.

http://www.imagebam.com/image/574e251137771234

Poor Steve, someone pwned his billboard

On the cover of this month's Wire
https://www.thewire.co.uk/img/scale/300/368/2019/02/07/ofc-wire-mar.jpg

xp Where was that billboard?

718 area code is Brooklyn

Good sleuthing

i kinda like the new album!

Yeah I didn't expect to. This song is a lazy river rambler:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLeGu_-Bnjk

Album is sounding a lot less "techno" than those interviews last year (about it being bumped/rejected by Matador) led me to believe... I thought there would be, like, no vocals at all.

Seeing Malkmus, Meat Puppets, Joy Division and Bowie on the cover of The Wire really makes me long for the techno baldies and free jazz upstarts of the past

Come Get Me sounds like a Paul Westerberg imitation

^^^The song would fit really well on Eventually.

This album gets off to a rough start but there are some great songs in here. The more electronic songs aren’t bad but I can also feel my standards lowering when I say that - knowing it’s not his wheelhouse and cutting him a break as he tries something new.

I keep forgetting to listen to this. Will do so now!

its like Malkmus does Suicide !

It sure is, ha ha

I like this a lot more than "Sparkle Hard"...

I'm actually pretty surprised that Matador rejected this and demanded he release a Jicks album first

Rather liking this but didn't realise there was going to be an abundance of 'normal' SM tracks to be on there. Was hoping it'd be 'groove' throughout

some nuggets in here that are already making the rounds on twitter, but my question is this:

i don't listen to podcasts, really. are they all as aggressively / poorly edited as this one?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/stephen-malkmus-pavement-podcast-838534/