Video: Stephen Malkmus - "Gardenia"

Thursday, June 9, 2011 Today's Quick Mention: A couple of solid shows are available for you to check out tonight. Oh No Oh My are at the Continental Club, and Noah And The Whale are playing the Parish. Or, and this is if you're up for a movie, you could go down to the Violet Crown and catch the excellent Incendies. Pavement is one of my favorite bands of all time, so I'm sure it's not the least bit surprising that [...]

• Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Senator

Real Emotional Trash (2008) counts as a misstep in the Malkmus/Jicks album progression. Though the band ably adopts jam-rock as sonic template (aided in particular by the addition of Janet Weiss) most of the songs suffer from excess. The title track, "Real Emotional Trash," is ten minutes long and could've easily been five and still retained some of the jammy digressions as well as the song's album-best lyrics. Similarly, though tracks like "Elmo Delmo," "Baltimore," and "Hopscotch Willie" possess thrilling passages (either the band letting loose or Malkmus selling the hell out of his cracked lyrics), the songs never sustain [...]

So I was reading through the 'Guide To Being One Of The Cool Bloggers' (You can download it on Pitchfork, but you have to answer a 20-question quiz on Kraut-rock before you can access it. I used my Julian Cope book to cheat.) and it says that I have to do a "Best of the first half of 20093. Seriously? Are the cool kids that desperate for content? I started reading through the lists a few sites have already published and noticed a disturbing trend: They were listing albums released in 2008. Sorry everyone, but Ida Maria was released in [...]

Nifty (Yes, "nifty." Shuttup.) little video from last year's Real Emotional Trash . Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Matador Records

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