Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Joseph Malkmus is an American musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Pavement. He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth30 May 1966
CitySanta Monica, CA
CountryUnited States of America
great hit knowing music realistic timeless trying
We're realistic about knowing that we're not out to hit the mainstream, ... We're trying to make great music for the time, but not to make timeless music. You just try to make something special.
goodbye rock roll
CRCR ... goodbye to the rock 'n' roll era.
writing stuff desperate
We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
unique voice important
A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
kids night men
I was a kid, I loved music, that was our social thing. That's what we bonded on. That's what my Saturday nights were, looking to see what bands were playing. And some of those people were the coolest people ever. I want to participate in that. And I hope other people feel that and they're like, "Yeah man, this is part of it, this is why I love music."
hustle band records
I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.
taken champion trying
Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.
nice leather-pants radio
[As a frontman ] I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are definitely not cool, but I like them. I don't listen to them, but I like them when I hear them on the radio, normally.
nice magic studios
That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.
sound never-change producers
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
musical
The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.
mixing
We always did our own mixing.
sound albums should
There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.
nice voice flow
If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.