It's Pavement solo album announce day! This morning, Stephen Malkmus announced his first non-Jicks solo album since his 2001 self-titled debut, an electronic offering called Groove Denied. And now his Pavement co-founder Spiral Stairs, aka Scott Kannberg, is here to detail his own new LP.

Stephen Malkmus has spent the last 13 years making an electronic record. It was ready last year, but Matador shelved it in favor of something a bit more straightforward. So the former Pavement frontman made an on-brand guitar album with the Jicks. Now that the Sparkle Hard album cycle has wrapped, his electronic venture is…

"Refute," one of the early singles from Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks' recent album Sparkle Hard, was a duet featuring Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon. But when Malkmus and the Jicks played the song at their show in Bristol on Sunday, they enlisted another indie-rock veteran to sing Gordon's part: Eleanor Friedberger, the singer-songwriter who u...

The band swung by to play tracks from their new album ‘Sparkle Hard’Stephen MalkmusStephen Malkmus and The Jicks played tracks from their new album Sparkle Hard on CBS This Morning this week (29 June.) You can watch footage of their performance of melancholy new track ‘Solid Silk’, below. Malkmus also sat down for an interview in which h...

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks recently released their new album Sparkle Hard -- we spoke with the former Pavement frontman (and played tennis with him) about it -- and today, they stopped by CBS This Morning to promote the release. Malkmus sat down with CBS' Anthony Mason to talk about his legacy before hitting the…