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	Stephen Malkmus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stephen Malkmus (born May 30th, 1966, Santa Monica, California) is an indie-rock musician, a former member of the band Pavement.
		Malkmus followed in his father's footsteps by attending the University of Virginia; he majored in history and was a disc jockey for the radio station WTJU.
		Pavement, and Malkmus in particular, was hailed as spearheading the underground indie movement of the 1990s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Malkmus (310 words)

	Stephen Malkmus: Face The Truth (2005): Reviews
		Malkmus' third post-Pavement recording is his most "solo" effort to date (not to mention his weirdest), with only some of the songs featuring the full complement of Jicks backing him up.
		Malkmus has long made a game of languishing, but he now sounds refreshingly eager to turn off the scoreboard and let his songs coach themselves.
		Malkmus seems to be firing on all cylinders for the first time as a solo artist.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/malkmusstephen/facethetruth (912 words)

	Stephen Malkmus - Music Downloads - Online
		Malkmus was particularly busy during that time, performing new songs with Kim's Bedroom -- a one-off group that also included Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Jim O'Rourke -- that spring in Holland and recording them at studios near his hometown of Portland, OR.
		Initially, Malkmus intended to release the album on his own or through a local label, but when his old label, Matador, received a copy, they agreed to release it.
		By the time Malkmus officially confirmed Pavement's breakup in the November 2000 issue of Spin magazine, Matador announced it was releasing the album -- originally titled Swedish Reggae and then changed to Stephen Malkmus -- in winter 2001.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/874/584/2/8745842.html (354 words)

	Splendid E-zine reviews: Stephen Malkmus
		Malkmus' guitar work is consistently assured, as it swirls or takes second chair to keyboards, as appropriate.
		Malkmus mostly sing-speaks until he's required to reach for the highs and lows, but the music is thankfully more bubbly and carefree than recent Pavement songs.
		Malkmus isn't trying to be the savior of rock music -- that was a role that fans and critics mistakenly bestowed.
	www.splendidezine.com /reviews/mar-5-01/stephen.html (623 words)

	Matador Records \| Stephen Malkmus Biography
		If you thought you knew the Jicks sound based upon 2001's positively plaudit-laden Stephen Malkmus, get ready: Pig Lib is the sound of a band who've found themselves (without using Mapquest), who feel comfortable in their collective skin (sans botox injections), and who know how to stretch out (while not getting tied to the rack).
		Stephen Malkmus, born in Santa Monica, California on May 30, 1966, attended one of Wooden's basketball camps as a youngster.
		Stephen Malkmus, noted Scrabble enthusiast, is a man not known to shy away from lyrical wordplay.
	www.matadorrecords.com /stephen_malkmus/biography.html (1439 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Stephen Malkmus: Music: Stephen Malkmus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Perhaps, then, this is the spirit of Stephen Malkmus: the King of the Cryptic Couplet freed from his 11-year yoke and embarking on an ultimate loosening-up exercise--the eponymous debut solo album.
		Stephen Malkmus is a close relative of Terror Twilight--a neatly-polished showcase of shambolic art-pop, with a grinning, brotherly Malkmus dropping wisecracks every inch of the way.
		Malkmus takes a lighthearted approach to his songs which can't really be reconciled with the skewed, intense talent that we saw up to and very much including Wowee Zowee.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Stephen-Malkmus/dp/B000056SX9 (1205 words)

	Stephen Malkmus - dublin - music
		Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks play The Village on the 30th of October.
		In 1999 Pavement took a break and Stephen Malkmus began work on a solo project incorporating the talents of Portland Indie rock group the Jicks comprising of John Moen on drums and bassist, Joanna Bolme.
		Malkmus wanted to title the album 'Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks' but was dissuaded by his record company who suggested Stephen Malkmus.
	www.dublinks.com /index.cfm/loc/12/pt/0/spid/3A30B49C-81D9-41F6-ADB0B5C504E852C9.htm (303 words)

	Flak Magazine: Stephen Malkmus, 3-5-01
		Malkmus has been quoted in interviews that the change was for marketing reasons.
		Granted, Malkmus is new to the solo performer spotlight, but his performance came across as tentative.
		While he was clearly the brain of Pavement, Stephen Malkmus wasn’t the entire heart.
	www.flakmag.com /features/malkmus.html (1140 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Stephen Malkmus
		That is not necessarily the case with Stephen Malkmus, but it isn't exactly the contrary, either.
		Malkmus, who has just released a solo LP wittily titled Stephen Malkmus (Matador), is the former co-head of Pavement, one of the premiere indie-rock acts of the '90s and the only band in recent memory to come straight outta Stockton.
		Indeed, Pavement and its ilk are the exact, literal opposite of the blues, of rap and even of heavy metal, in that their music speaks not of emotional, physical or economic distress but of the opposite feeling: contentment.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.08.01/malkmus-0106.html (1202 words)

	Stephen Malkmus: Stephen Malkmus (2001): Reviews
		Stephen Malkmus sounds like a great unmade Pavement album polished to within an inch of its life.
		Malkmus remains up to his usual trickery, packing the proceedings with musical plot twists like false starts, abrupt fades, and fake codas.
		Stephen Malkmus' solo debut is as mature, focused, and charming as it is rambunctious.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/malkmusstephen/stephenmalkmus (612 words)

	Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks + The Cribs - PopMatters Concert Review
		The chance to see someone like Malkmus doesn't come every day, so I took the 35-minute train ride from the college town where I'm studying to Brussels, hoping to see what an American rock 'n' roll show is like in Belgium.
		I was surprised to see them opening for Stephen Malkmus (both because of their sound and because they haven't been around for very long) but I respect their enthusiasm.
		As Malkmus approached the microphone, it was difficult to hear what he was saying.
	www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/m/malkmus-stephen-050926.shtml (1151 words)

	Amazon.com: Stephen Malkmus: Music: Stephen Malkmus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Not surprisingly, Stephen Malkmus (the album) sounds an awful lot like Pavement -- after all, setting aside a few songs written by Pavement second chair Scott Kannberg and some instrumental and vocal flourishes by the rest of the band, Pavement essentially was Malkmus (particularly on the last few albums).
		And Stephen Malkmus, while still playing to Malkmus' strengths as the crafter of idiosyncratic lyrics, is a perkier, poppier album than I would have expected.
		And despite Malkmus' rep as a snide purveyor of slacker irony, the songs are earnest and benefit from the personal warmth he started bringing to his lyrics around the time of Brighten the Corners.
	www.amazon.com /Stephen-Malkmus/dp/B000056NZV (1801 words)

	Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks: Pig Lib [2003] Shaking Through.net: Music: Review
		Back in 2001 Matador Records -- Pavement's primary label during the '90s -- was so incredibly self-conscious about releasing Stephen Malkmus' debut album with his new band, the Jicks, that the label went so far as to do something Malkmus had never done as a member of Pavement: Show his face on a record cover.
		From Pavement-era songs "Fillmore Jive" to "Cream Of Gold," Malkmus has always evinced a soft spot for the shameless guitar solos and muscular rhythm sections that predominated hard rock during the '70s, and here, with the Jicks, whatever pent-up desires he's had to make a full album of such songs get released.
		Whereas on Stephen Malkmus, the focus was on the principal's trademark elusive lyricism, Pig Lib is all about the instrumentation, concentrating on the tight interplay between band members (Malkmus on guitar, bassist Joanna Bolme, guitarist/keyboardist Mike Clark and drummer John Moen).
	www.shakingthrough.net /music/reviews/2003/stephen_malkmus_jicks_pig_lib_2003.html (472 words)

	Stephen Malkmus - Gig previews & reviews - Music - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		The Malkmus residence in Portland, Oregon, is equipped with a state-of-the-art home studio, a nursery for nine-month-old Lottie and telephone hold music performed live by the amiable former leader of Pavement.
		Malkmus is evidently a happy man, who has set his own comfortable pace since disbanding Pavement in 1999.
		The youthfulness Malkmus strove to capture is "not necessarily in terms of age," he says.
	www.theage.com.au /news/gig-previews--reviews/stephen-malkmus/2005/12/08/1133829710147.html (652 words)

	Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus Review - sputnikmusic
		Within only two years of the break-up, Stephen assembled two of his Californian friends, who together made The Jicks, and began writing stuff that may have echoed with Pavement influence, but had a different and, essentially, cleaner sound to it, as well as the array of new influences that came with his new band.
		Stephen’s vocals have never been better or mellower, and they suit the song perfectly.
		Stephen has obviously gotten more oblique about oddity songs and constanty entertaining the listener with awe-inspiring oddball lyrics and melodies, but at the same time he makes the stumble of adding one or two "interesting" songs that make this album stumble just a bit.
	www.sputnikmusic.com /album.php?reviewid=8166 (1330 words)

	Stephen Malkmus: Pig Lib [with The Jicks]: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stephen Malkmus beat a winding path of discovery after Pavement split, relegating all his best material to B-sides on EPs that only underscored the blandness of his self-titled debut.
		So yes, Malkmus is back, but it's also true and important to note that he was gone for a while; the depressing Slow Century DVD was a pallbearer for his and Pavement's exuberance, and a reminder of better days long gone.
		But it's as much the arrival of The Jicks as it is the rebirth of Stephen Malkmus: The band has become a grounding force he can push and pull from, a safety net allowing him to take risks.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/19666/Stephen_Malkmus_Pig_Lib_with_The_Jicks (941 words)

	Stephen Malkmus: Face the Truth - PopMatters Music Review
		Stephen Malkmus's second post-Pavement venture, 2003's Pig Lib was a bit of a snoozer, to be kind.
		Malkmus wills "Post-Paint Boy" to success with frequently alliterative lyrics that have you hanging on every word, all delivered with an especially inspired vocal take.
		The first picture of Malkmus in the liner notes is of him behind the drum kit.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/m/malkmusstephen-face.shtml (1381 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Face the Truth: Music: Stephen Malkmus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A stranger to pigeonholes, former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus is one of alt-rock's indubitable curiosities.
		Stephen Malkmus is still primarily known as the singer/writer from Pavement, and he'll probably have that tag stuck to him for a very long time.
		Stephen Malkmus has made a living of sounding kind of depressed.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Face-Truth-Stephen-Malkmus/dp/B0007QRAFU (791 words)

	Matador Records \| Stephen Malkmus
		Part Two of the Stephen Malkmus trivia contest is up, with nine fiendishly difficult questions submitted by Malkmus/Pavement fans, chosen out of 946 by Patrick Amory and Jesper Eklow, and vetted as accurate by SM himself.
		Stephen and Jicks will continue their worldwide touring in support of the excellent ‘Stephen Malkmus’ CD/LP, and be on the lookout (or alternately, just tune in) to SM and band performing “Jenny and The Ess-Dog” on “The Late Show with David Letterman” on April 10.
		The first single (and first release) from ex-Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus is a taster for his debut album, to be released 4 weeks later on February 13.
	www.matadorrecords.com /stephen_malkmus (2838 words)

	Rolling Stone : Stephen Malkmus : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stephen Malkmus was the singer-songwriter at the center of Pavement's sound: the great guitar romantic of his era, a poet, a con man, a slave to love, a badly drawn boy, a flannel man-cub troubadour whose smartass lyrics barely veiled the cosmic emotional climaxes of his voice and guitar.
		On his solo debut, Malkmus stands reborn as a mellow folk-rock dude relocated to Portland, Oregon, and jamming with a couple of neighbors on twelve songs that sound like Pavement at their breeziest.
		Stephen Malkmus recalls similar solo debuts by Television's Tom Verlaine and the Velvet Underground's Lou Reed: Freed from the constraints of a band that didn't constrain him all that much, the auteur grapples with the problem of what to do with all the empty spaces in the music.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/album/108667/review/5941387/stephen_malkmus (410 words)

	NME.COM - News - MALKMUS 'PIG'S OUT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks / Pinetop Seven : Vic Theatre, Chicago
		Former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus has confirmed the tracklisting and release date for his new album with his band THE JICKS.
		Stephen Malkmus is emphasising that the new album is band effort, with The Jicks bassist Joanna Bolme and drummer John Moen making significant contributions to the songs.
	www.nme.com /news/103895.htm (140 words)

	Ink 19 :: Stephen Malkmus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Since then, ex-frontman Stephen Malkmus wrote and recorded this eponymous solo debut in the cozy and cloudy city of Portland, Oregon.
		Although "slacker-rock" may seem a bit too narrow-minded and redundant term, it's one that Stephen Malkmus' music can't help but evoke in the listener.
		Few times, the variety of rhythms experimented with falter, but just as you're quizzical expressions form, Malkmus lulls you and entertains you simultaneously with his ultra-catchy melodies, extended instrumental support and trademark bent lyricism.
	www.ink19.com /issues/february2001/wetInk/musicMN/stephenMalkmus.html (190 words)

	Amazon.com: Face the Truth: Music: Stephen Malkmus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stephen Malkmus shares his favorite music with Amazon customers.
		Malkmus is one wicked craftsman of delightfully pleasant tunes.
		Maybe the Jicks are too tight, or too reverent in the presence of Stephen or something, but I miss the sloppy grandeur of the old band.
	www.amazon.com /Face-Truth-Stephen-Malkmus/dp/B0008FPIPY (1629 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Music: Review - Stephen Malkmus
		There's no truth to the rumor that Pavement has decided to simply change its name to "Stephen Malkmus." At least Pavement fans should hope not, because the bandleader's solo debut is one of those solo-album duds that's simply a watered-down version of the old band.
		Malkmus fulfills his end of the bargain, picking up the pace of his trademark stream of smarmy non sequiturs, but his new backing band, the Jicks, fall woefully short in their futile attempt to duplicate Spiral Stairs' rusty-guitar antics.
		Pavement was always known for its inconsistency, but Malkmus takes this to new levels here, as most of the songs trudge through a soggy terrain sure to please only those Pavement-heads who accept Malkmus' every word as gospel.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid:80706 (339 words)

	StephenMalkmus.com Featuring the Jicks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Now, Malkmus is far from out of touch, but his music tends to be listened to mostly by old fans (whose numbers run high enough for him to sell out most concerts).
		Though it's essentially Berman's outfit, Malkmus is a frequent collaborator with Berman, a published poet who sings bewildering country in a deep drawl.
		Malkmus says the new album is more rocking, and doesn't expect it to be the group's last.
	www.stephenmalkmus.com /punbb/upload/viewtopic.php?id=3887 (1640 words)

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