Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks and Broken Social Scene will headline this year’s Siren Festival, the Village Voice-sponsored free sweatfest on Coney Island scheduled for July 19. Other bands on the bill: Beach House, Film School, and Annuals (remember them?). Bonus frequent-flyer points go to Times New Viking, who will play Siren on Saturday then fly out to Chicago for a performance at the Pitchfork Music Festival the next day. Full lineup after the jump.
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks and Broken Social Scene will headline this year’s Siren Festival, the Village Voice-sponsored free sweatfest on Coney Island scheduled for July 19. Other bands on the bill: Beach House, Film School, and Annuals (remember them?). Bonus frequent-flyer points go to Times New Viking, who will play Siren on Saturday then fly out to Chicago for a performance at the Pitchfork Music Festival the next day. Full lineup after the jump.
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks and Broken Social Scene will headline this year’s Siren Festival, the Village Voice-sponsored free sweatfest on Coney Island scheduled for July 19. Other bands on the bill: Beach House, Film School, and Annuals (remember them?). Bonus frequent-flyer points go to Times New Viking, who will play Siren on Saturday then fly out to Chicago for a performance at the Pitchfork Music Festival the next day. Full lineup after the jump.
People we never expected to see on Fox News: Former Pavement singer/current Jick Stephen Malkmus. Question we never expected to hear on Fox News: “I’ve heard from the Urban Dictionary that [Jick] is a specific act of making love. ‘To Jick.’ Is that exciting?” Response that we would kind of expect from someone on Fox News: “I don’t know what ghetto that came from.” Malkmus and Red Eye host Greg Gutfield also discussed the audacity of Blender magazine, the Whitney Museum and how Real Emotional Trash compares to Bach. Notable quotables below.
The dawning of spring means one thing: Fantasy baseball draft season is coming up! Let Stephen Malkmus guide you through his picks for 2008, and find out why the Brewers do much better in the points-for-stats world than they do in the NL Central. More »
Today Slate ran a piece on why Portland, Ore., is like omg so awesome because of its impeccable indie cred, which is apparently epitomized by bands moving there once they’ve hit it medium. “It’s easy to live here,” says author Taylor Clark, although how easy that might be there will probably change at least a bit for the artists whose dwellings are pointed out in Clark’s Tour Of the Indie Rock Star’ Homes:
