Stephen Malkmus has been popping up in some pretty fascinating places lately. Recently he’s spoken to Bret Easton Ellis and Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham, but this is a big one. Malkmus spoke with Marc Maron on WTF and you can stream it on Maron’s website now. Also be sure to check out our Counting Down [...]

We’ve already heard one track from Fucked Up’s forthcoming Glass Boys, and the Canadian epic-hardcore band just dropped another. “Led By Hand” kind of combines the soaring, atmospheric emo of Sunny Day Real Estate or Jawbox with a blues-y, slide-guitar chorus that reminds me of the Charlatans circa Telling...

It’s so tempting to make jokes about this, but it’s also a truly fucked up situation: As Al Jazeera reports, a recent Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s Guantanamo Bay prison reveals that the CIA has recently used music as one torture instrument among many. The report centers on the Saudi prisoner Zai...

Fucked Up are about to release their epic 18-minute single “Year Of The Dragon,” the latest in their long line of Zodiac 12″ releases. On the B-side, they’ve covered a couple of ancient, obscure Toronto punk anthems. We’ve posted one of those covers: The band’s version of Cardboard Brai...

In a sense, Stephen Malkmus and Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham are the chilled-out yin and the amped-up yang of the Matador Records roster. So it only makes sense that they more or less complete each other in the context of a TV interview. Malkmus stopped by Abraham’s MuchMusic talk show The Wedge to discuss Malkmus’ [...]