The masterful Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, with support from Tandem Felix, at Dublin’s Vicar Street. Photos by Aaron Corr.
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Having released ‘Middle America’ – their first single in four years – last month, it’s been announced that Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks will play Dublin’s Vicar Street on October 19. Tickets go on sale this Wednesday at 9am. SMATJ will release their new album, Sparkle Hard, on May 18 via Domino Records. Check out the artwork and brand new single, ‘Shiggy’, below.
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Whether he likes it or not, Stephen Malkmus is one of the building blocks of indie rock, an essential strand of DNA that manifests itself in certain choices and attitudes towards music that have dominated the agenda since about 1990 or so. And since the messy dissolution of dear, departed Pavement back in 1999, he has more or less done everything he can to distance himself from that role, picking up his guitar, and soloing long into the 21st century, reinventing himself as a kind of Jerry Garcia for the post-Nirvana age. Which, it might generally be assumed, is a…
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Portland indie rock ex-husband and wife duo Quasi have unveiled the video to their pretty awesome new song, ‘You Can Stay But You Gotta Go’. Supposedly “inspired by Kenneth Anger’s work with the Monkees” the video is also described as a revolving visual on its YouTube page. ‘You Can Stay Buy You Gotta Go’ is the first single to be taken from the twosome’s forthcoming ninth studio album, Mole City. Formed in 1993 by Sam Coomes (The Donner Party, Heatmiser w/ Elliott Smith) and Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Wild Flag) are cited by many as being one…