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
corny
I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
memorable guitar play
Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to be honest - it's mostly melodic parts. I try not to play too many notes. It's just more instrumental music. It's a totally valid criticism if you don't like that kind of thing. It also is maybe a little anachronistic or unnecessary in a certain way.
song voice style
The earlier stuff is more like "this is happening to me," but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something, or more declaratory. I don't know where that voice comes from, like, "I've been down the road, we've been there and done that." That's sort of like a tougher style, or a less vulnerable style.
song heart self
You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.
engineers studios
Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.
song rocks hip-hop
Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.
people musician like-you
There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.
book writing college
I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
song practice arranging
Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.
goal different chance
There's always a chance, a goal to make something different and get it right, finally.
song radio showers
Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.
records busy flaws
It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good.
sound never-change producers
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
moving scenarios describing
I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.