Word: malkmus
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...everpresent enigma, writing a couple of songs per album but without a readily discernible style or persona. His songs tended to be impenetrable as well; even his moniker, Spiral Stairs, was adopted in order to give the band an air of mystery. Spiral Stairs was always secondary to Stephen Malkmus, the chief songwriter and public face, but as the 1990s wore on Kannberg became increasingly marginalized as Pavement became more and more an expression of Malkmus’ personal vision. Pavement’s final studio album, 1999’s “Terror Twilight”, contained...
...familiar with, and I’m becoming very afraid. But wait, it’s a fake out! Soon a bearded mystery man arrives to break up the revelry, and the meat of this strange message begins. It all seems so simple and innocent: the sunny Malkmus-style intro riff, the bright multicolored lighting, the stuffed gorilla holding a baseball bat—but I know there’s something evil going on here. Just look at drummer Greg Saunier’s devilish eyes as he viciously hits his cymbal in a downward stabbing motion...
...last Saturday.Organized by an alliance of music stores, including greater Boston area chain Newbury Comics, Record Store Day was celebrated nationwide with in-store appearances from independent music artists as well as special vinyl-only releases from artists like R.E.M., Death Cab For Cutie, Built To Spill, and Stephen Malkmus. It was a day of tribute to the local establishments that have become symbolic in the American underground’s lexicon for their defiance of the cultural status quo. For stores like Newbury Comics, where independence has come first for so long, this collaboration is an ominous indication...
Sales of Pavement's fuzzed-out masterpiece don't stack up to the rounding errors on Nevermind, but its influence on Beck, Blur, Radiohead and countless other musicians of the '90s is incalculable. Lead singer and former Whitney Museum of Art security guard Stephen Malkmus expressed alienation with the same lo-fi guitar grit of Kurt Cobain, but his lyrics and vocals were models of cryptic passion. Somehow his word salads communicated both the ennui of a suburban smart-ass and an awareness that ennui isn't tragic...
...capturing the greatest rock band of the past two decades at a profoundly strange moment in their existence.After the soaring hooks of 1994’s “Crooked Rain” and its almost-hit “Cut Your Hair,” Stephen Malkmus and company hid themselves away in the studio and emerged with an album that was equal parts depressing and incomprehensible. Although it’s only 55 minutes long, it’s a chore to get through, even today.But somehow, in between awful junk like “Extradition?...