Stephen Malkmus

Superorganism are still a couple weeks out from the release of their sophomore album World Wide Pop. They’ve shared four singles from it already — “Teenager,” “It’s Raining,” “crushed.zip,” and “On & On” — and today they’re back with a fifth and final one, “Into The Sun.” It features actor and musician Gen Hoshino and cameos from Stephen Malkmus and Pi Ja Ma, both of whom appear on other tracks from the album.

Pavement's Stephen Malkmus on his 'good enough' lyrics, the joys of prepping a reunion setlist and finding common ground with Kanye West.

Superorganism have dropped a new track called ‘It’s Raining’, featuring Stephen Malkmus – you can listen to it below. The track – which also features UK rapper Dylan Cartlidge – is the latest preview of the London-based pop collective’s forthcoming second album ‘World Wide Pop’, following the Stuart Price-produced ‘Teenager’.

Wilco just announced the lineup for their 2022 Solid Sound festival, and before that, they wrapped up the 2022 edition of their Sky Blue Sky Mexico concert vacation, which happened at Riviera Maya from January 17-20. We already posted about Wilco's night two set, where they brought out Sophie Allison of Soccer Mommy, Kurt Vile, and Mavis Staples, and for their third set on night four, they had more guests in store. Stephen Malkmus (who played a set with his Trad Tech band on night two) joined them for a rendition of Pavement's "Cut Your Hair," and Britt Daniel of Spoon (who played on night three) sang on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot track "Kamera." Closing out the set was another guest appearance from Mavis Staples, who sang on "I'll Take You There" and "The Weight." Watch video of those below.

Wilco have concluded their Sky Blue Sky festival in Mexico with guest appearances from Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus and Spoon frontman Britt Daniel during their headlining set. The band brought out Malkmus to sing lead vocals on a cover of Pavement’s 1994 single ‘Cut Your Hair’, a song Wilco have...

Wilco was joined by a bevy of guests including Pavement‘s Stephen Malkmus, legendary vocalist Mavis Staples, Spoon frontman Britt Daniel and Chicago-based keyboardist/vocalist Neal Francis on Thursday for their final performance of Sky Blue Sky 2022. The band delivered a 23-song show and didn’t play any repeats over the course of their three concerts at the destination event held at the Hard Rock Hotel in Riviera Maya, Mexico.

Stephen Malkmus debuted two new songs at a gig in Portland at the weekend alongside one of Pavement‘s classic tracks. The singer-songwriter, best known as the frontman of indie rock stalwarts Pavement, played his first gig since 2019 on Sunday (January 16) at The Alberta Abbey. Accompanied by his...

Stephen Malkmus released Traditional Technique, a psych-folk-inspired album made with Matt Sweeney and The Decemberists' Chris Funk, in early 2020, right before the pandemic hit. He was supposed to tour for the album later that year, which got postponed a couple times and has not been rescheduled. He's back in...

Stephen Malkmus showcased two new songs at a concert in Portland, the musician’s first show since 2019. Performing at venue the Alberta Abbey, Malkmus and his band also played Pavement’s “Father To A Sister Of Thought.” The new songs, titled “MTV” and “Making Friends,” have yet to be officially released. The tracks mark Malkmus’ first new music since his 2020 album Traditional Techniques, a collection of folk tunes on which he plays a 12-string acoustic guitar, and the album B-side “Juliefuckingette.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jose Velazco (@thesetlistproject) Malkmus’ formative band, Pavement, recently announced a new box set...

Back in the earliest weeks of 2020, before pandemic life set in, Stephen Malkmus began rolling out Traditional Techniques, a folk-oriented album recorded with the Decemberists’ Chris Funk and guitar-slinging indie journeyman Matt Sweeney, hot on the heels of 2018’s indie-centric Jicks effort Sparkle Hard and 2019’s electronic-tinged solo LP Groove Denied. A full two years later, Malkmus is finally playing some shows in support of Traditional Techniques with his newly formed Trad Tech Band, which includes Funk, Brad Truax, and Jake Morris. Supposedly Sweeney will join them tonight in Mexico for their set at Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky festival, but Sunday night at Portland’s Alberta Abbey it was just the four of them.