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Matador Announces Singles Subscription Club

Matador announced yesterday a limited edition seven-inch subscription series that will start in early 2012. The title of the series is Singles Going Home Alone and will feature six singles over the course of the year.   read more

Watch the Video for Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks' "Senator", Starring Jack Black

Check out the music video for "Senator", the first single off of Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks' latest record, this past August's Mirror Traffic, which we reviewed here. The video star actor/comedian/musician Jack Black as the Senator and was directed by Scott Jacobson.   read more

Treasure Island Music Festival Preview

With summer in our rear-view mirror and winter barreling down, next weekend’s Treasure Island Music Festival, now in its fifth year running, marks a seasonal last hurrah for those of who crave the energy, chaos, and colorful crowds that tend to go hand-in-hand with dancing outdoors.   read more

Stephen Malkmus Performs at the 2009 Noise Pop Festival

Watch Stephen Malkmus perform a solo set at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, Calif. as part of the 2009 Noise Pop Festival.  read more

Paste mPlayer Issue 8 Is Live!

This week’s issue features Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Guy Clark, Josh Radnor, Yellow Ostrich, Hercules and Love Affair, the best sports doc of the last few years, Band Internships, guitar shopping with Eleanor Friedberger and the search for the worst band in the world....  read more

This Week’s New Album Releases (8/23/2011)

This week sees, among others, the highly anticipated release of Stephen Malkmus’ Mirror Traffic. The Beck-produced album is Malkmus’ fifth, and his first since the super-successful Pavement reunion tour.   read more

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks: Mirror Traffic

From Mirror Traffic‘s very first loping riff, that which opens the album on easy-going country jaunt “Tigers” and is accompanied by pedal steel, it’s clear this is going to be an enjoyable album. “This record is relatively approachable,” Stephen Malkmus admits in the press materials for his fifth album and first since Pavement’s triumphant reunion tour last year. Recorded in Los Angeles with producer Beck, Mirror Traffic is varied to boot, dabbling in slacker folk (“No One Is (As I Are Be)”), adrenalized, blow-job-themed rock ‘n’ roll (“Senator”) and instrumental psych jams (“Jumblegloss”), to name but a few of the...  read more

Beck May Start His Own Printing Press

While producing Mirror Traffic, the upcoming album from Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Beck revealed to Malkmus another project he was working on. “Beck…said he was trying to start a private press of books and that I should get involved,” Malkmus told Spin. “He asked if I wanted to do something. But I don’t know what the status of that yet because, you know, I haven’t contributed to it yet.” The Pavement frontman said that the “’60s-style private press” would provide “limited edition books of writings, drawings, poetry.” More proof that Beck is not, in fact, a loser....  read more

Listen to a New Song from Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks

The new album from former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus and his band the Jicks is set to drop Aug. 23 via Matador Records. Adding another level of star-power to the project, Mirror Traffic is produced by Beck, and judging by the jangly “Senator,” it’s safe to say that the LP will easily satisfy Pavement fans. Listen to the track below via Matador Records’ Matablog....  read more

14 Songs That Name-Check Bob Dylan

Yesterday, music fans across the world celebrated Bob Dylan's 70th birthday. Somehow, "Happy Birthday" just doesn't seem good enough to pay tribute to the legend on his big day, so we compiled 14 of our favorite tracks that name-check Mr. Zimmerman as a way of sending some belated well-wishes to the birthday boy.  read more