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For|the album of the same name|Stephen Malkmus (album)Infobox musical artist| name = Stephen Malkmus| image = Stephen Malkmus 20050704.jpg| caption = Stephen Malkmus on 4 July 2005 at the River To River Festival show in Battery Park in New York City| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Stephen Joseph Malkmus| alias = SM| birth_date = Birth date and age|1966|05|30|birth_place = Santa Monica , California | origin = Stockton, California | instrument = Guitar , Singing|vocals , Drum kit|drums , Bass guitar|Bass | genre = Indie rock | years_active =| label = Matador Records , Domino Records , Drag City (record label)|Drag City | associated_acts = Pavement (band)|Pavement , The Jicks , Silver Jews | website = http://www.stephenmalkmus.com Official Website| notable_instruments = Gibson Les Paul Fender Jazzmaster Fender Stratocaster Gibson SG Stephen Joseph Malkmus (born May 30, 1966)cite web|url= http://www.matadorrecords.com/stephen_malkmus/biography.html |title=Stephen Malkmus biography from |publisher=Matador Records |date= |accessdate=2009-07-26 is an American musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the alternative rock band Pavement (band)|Pavement . He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks .
Biography
Early years
Stephen Malkmus was born in Santa Monica, California on May 30, 1966 to Mary and Stephen Malkmus, Sr. Blender Magazine|Blender magazine article: " http://www.blender.com/guide/61233/dearsuperstarstephenmalkmus.html Dear Superstar: Stephen Malkmus."Magnet Magazne|Magnet article: " http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2001/04/01/stephen-malkmus-being-stephen-malkmus/ Being Stephen Malkmus". His father was a property and casualty insurance agent . When Stephen Jr. was 8, the family moved upstate to Stockton, California|Stockton , where he attended Carpinteria, California|Carpinteria 's Cate School and Lodi, California|Lodi 's Tokay High School . As a teenager, Malkmus worked various jobs, including painting house numbers on street curbs and "flipping hamburger|burgers or whatever" at a country club . Duke Chronicle article: " http://dukechronicle.com/node/145529 Musician Malkmus reviews Dylan, talks Trash". At age 16, he spent the night in jail after consuming alcohol, urinating in the bushes, and walking on the roof s of several residential homes. Later, he was placed on probation for underage drinking, and was also expelled from school "for going to a party in the woods where people were taking Psilocybin mushrooms|mushrooms . I didn’t take them, but some guy Informant#Terminology and slang|narc’d on me."
Malkmus learned the guitar by playing along to Jimi Hendrix 's recording of " Purple Haze ". During high school, he played in several Stockton-based punk music|punk bands : Bag O Bones, The Straw Dogs, and Crisis Alert. After graduation, Malkmus followed in his father's footsteps by attending the University of Virginia , where he majored in history and was a disc jockey for the college radio station WTJU . During this time, Malkmus met fellow WTJU DJs David Berman (musician)|David Berman (who would later front the Silver Jews ) and James McNew (of Yo La Tengo ). http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/bio/index.jsp? JSESSIONID=jntBHlfFgSX0tbsvg12W7GDNlzb2r9phKQRTBW2lQ22zhMScWHTX!-572514030& & pid=20222 Billboard.com biography of Pavementdead link|date=July 2009 In the late 1980s, he was employed as a security guard at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York , along with Berman and Bob Nastanovich .
Career
Malkmus formed Pavement with Scott Kannberg (aka Spiral Stairs) while he was living in Stockton during the 1980s. Their first album, Slanted & Enchanted , was released to critical acclaim, and the band continued to receive attention for subsequent releases. Pavement, and Malkmus in particular, was hailed as spearheading the underground indie movement of the 1990s. In 2001, following the 1999 dissolution of the band, Malkmus released his first self-titled solo album. He also was a member of rock group Silver Jews along with poet/lyricist David Berman.cite web|url= http://www.weeblackskelf.co.uk/cordsuit/index.php? page=David+Berman+and+Stephen+Malkmus+Interview |title=Interview with The Corduroy Suit |publisher=Weeblackskelf.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2009-07-26 In early 1999 Stephen Malkmus participated in a Sonic Youth side project called Kim's Bedroom that included bassist/vocalist Kim Gordon , guitarist/vocalist Thurston Moore , Chicago avant-garde veteran Jim O'Rourke (musician)|Jim O'Rourke , and renowned Japanese drummer Ikue Mori ; they never released an album, but did play a few live shows. Malkmus is currently frontman of Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks|The Jicks .
On May 23, 2003 in Milwaukee, while touring with his new band The Jicks, Malkmus opened the show by saying, "This is off our first record." The band then proceeded to play an evening's worth of Pavement songs, marking the second time Malkmus had played any of his previous band's songs since their 1999 breakup, the first was on April 22, 2002 in São Paulo, Brazil, where he played In The Mouth a Desert .
In 2007, Malkmus provided 3 songs to the Todd Haynes|Todd Haynes' film '' I'm Not There '', based on the life of Bob Dylan . He contributed on the songs " Ballad of a Thin Man ", "Can't Leave Her Behind" and " Maggie's Farm ". Malkmus has admitted that he was never "really a really big fan of Dylan,"Rolling Stone Magazine|Rolling Stone article: " http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/18349762/stephen_malkmus_on_bob_dylan_rehearsing_and_his_favorite_venues_around_the_world Stephen Malkmus on Bob Dylan, Rehearsing and His Favorite Venues Around the World". but noted that his involvement with the film had made him listen "to him again a little closer."
Malkmus's fourth studio album with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks|The Jicks , Real Emotional Trash , was released in March 2008.cite web|url= http://www.matadorrecords.com/stephen_malkmus/ |title=Stephen Malkmus news at Matador Records |publisher=Matadorrecords.com |date= |accessdate=2009-07-26
Pavement reunited in March 2010 and have since embarked on a world tour.cite web|url= http://pitchfork.com/news/38051-pavement-launch-tour-add-dates/ |title=Pavement Launch Tour, Add Dates & #124; News |publisher=Pitchfork |date=2010-03-01 |accessdate=2012-04-15
In August 2011 he published his fifth studio album with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks|The Jicks , Mirror Traffic .
Personal life
Following the dissolution of Pavement, Malkmus moved to Portland, Oregon , where he met his wife, artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins . The couple have two children: daughters Lottie (born 2004)cite web |url= http://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/201003/pavement-indie |title=Greatest. Indie-est. Band. Ever. |last=Klosterman |first=Chuck |work= GQ |date= March 2010 |accessdate=January 28, 2012cite web |url= http://www.spin.com/articles/qa-stephen-malkmus-new-lp-beck-more |title=Q& A: Stephen Malkmus on New LP, Beck + More |last=William |first=Goodman |work= Spin (magazine)|Spin |date= July 6, 2011 |accessdate=January 28, 2012 and Sunday (born 2007). http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/47563-stephen-malkmus-talks-itrashi Interview with Pitchfork Magazinedead link|date=July 2009 In 2011, before the release of Mirror Traffic , Malkmus and his family moved to Berlin .
Malkmus is a sports fan, and is known to play golf and tennis ; Time Out New York article: " http://www3.timeoutny.com/newyork/thevolume/tag/stephen-malkmus-time-out-new-york-interview/ Stephen Malkmus interview". he also plays second base for the Portland-based Disjecta softball team.cite web|last=Caraeff |first=Ezra |url= http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/2007/08/disjecta_softball_champions.php |title=The Portland Mercury & #124; Blogtown, PDX & #124; Disjecta - Softball Champions& #33; |publisher=Blogtown.portlandmercury.com |date= |accessdate=2012-04-15
Equipment
Stephen currently plays a 1960s Fender Jazzmaster that can be traced back to the Brighten The Corners era, a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, and a Fender Stratocaster that was his guitar of choice during the majority of his time with Pavement. He used a Gibson SG with Pavement during the Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain era. For the 2010 Pavement reunion tour he used his Stratocaster extensively. He has also played a Danelectro Silvertone (Sears model dating to 1962 or 1963) for one-off solo shows.
Typically, he uses an Orange Retro 50 head through a 1970's Marshall 4x12 cabinet when playing live, though he has used various other Orange and Fender amps, including a vintage Silverface Twin Reverb during the early Pavement years, an Orange OR120 during later Pavement years, and a single channel Orange AD30 with the Jicks. Malkmus's other confirmed (though not constant) gear includes: Z.Vex Fuzz Factory , Diamond J-Drive, Line 6 (company)|Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler, T-Rex Engineering|T-Rex Replica, Lovetone Big Cheese , Lovetone Meatball , BOSS TU-2, DigiTech Whammy , Emlyn Crowther|Crowther HotCake and Pro Co RAT .
Note: Even though the Jicks are not credited within the title, the album Stephen Malkmus is in fact a Jicks recording. Initially, Malkmus simply wanted to call his post-Pavement band the Jicks with no mention of his name, but Matador records resisted the idea and released the album as Stephen Malkmus, although "the Jicks" is printed on the CD itself. Face the Truth (Stephen Malkmus album)|Face the Truth is technically Stephen Malkmus's only true solo affair, though the Jicks do provide instrumentation on nearly every song.
Singles
Discretion Grove (2001) - w/ "Sin Taxi" and "Leisurely Poison" (2001)
Jenny & the Ess-Dog (2001) - w/ "Keep the Faith", "That's What Mama Said" and "Alien Boy"
Phantasies EP (2001) - w/ "Malay Massaker"
Jo Jo's Jacket - w/ "Polish Mule", "The Hook (live)" and "Open and Shut Cases" (2001)
Sex Life of Robinson Crusoe, Pt. 2 (2001) - b-side available only on official site
''This One's for the Fellows: A Sonic Salute to the Young Fresh Fellows (2004) - guitar on "No One Really Knows" (with The Maroons )
Chokes! EP by Silkworm (band)|Silkworm (2007) - guitar on " Spanish Harlem Incident (live)"
'' I'm Not There (Music from the Motion Picture)'' (2007) - With The Million Dollar Bashers: " Ballad of a Thin Man " and " Maggie's Farm "; with Lee Ranaldo : "Can't Leave Her Behind" and "What Kind of Friend is This? " ( iTunes Music Store|iTunes only)
Miscellaneous
The New Yorker College Tour: University of Washington, Seattle: A Conversation with Stephen Malkmus (2006)
Cover of "Death And The Maiden" by New Zealand band 'The Verlaines'. Available on Flying Num DVD 'Very Short Films'.
References
Reflist
External links
http://www.stephenmalkmus.com Official site
http://www.matadorrecords.com/stephen_malkmus/ Matador Records US record label
http://www.dominorecordco.com/site/index.php? page=artists& artistID=48 Domino Records UK record label
http://stephenmalkmus.tripod.com It's a Brand New Era fan site
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