Starting the set with "Senator," a song addressing the desire that all people (especially politicians) have for oral pleasure, Malkmus spoke to the quiet, dark places of the psyche, stripping away the ...

The opening track’s guitars have a spacey-sounding warble lilted over a marching beat and they matche the timbre of our vocalist’s verse as it shuffles in its sing-speak delivery in a tone far from ...

Stephen Malkmus and his band the Jicks tumbled into KCRW’s studio for a loose, jammy, and magnetic set behind their 7th studio album Sparkle Hard. The iconic indie-rocker performed with a confident ...

Pairing Stephen Malkmus and Beck, who produced this album, seems inevitable in retrospect; both have based their careers on trickster personas. Case in point: One of Malkmus’ songs on Mirror Traffic ...

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks tore up the Magic Stick Friday, June 8 in support of their latest record Sparkle Hard. All photos by Kate de Fuccio.