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14-556: The Jicks formed in 2000, almost immediately after Pavement's 1999 "hiatus" began. The group's first record - which had a working title of Swedish Reggae - was simply called Stephen Malkmus . It was released by Matador Records on February 13, 2001. The group made their official live debut at New York 's Bowery Ballroom only a few weeks before their first record was released. Around this time, Pavement's auxiliary percussionist Bob Nastanovich began acting as The Jicks' tour manager, and Mike Clark joined on keyboards. Pig Lib

28-568: A bachelor's degree from Yale University and master's degree (1991) from the University of Virginia . Sheffield lives in Brooklyn , New York. Sheffield has written eight books. His first, a memoir published by Random House in January 2007, is titled Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time . An excerpt of the book was featured in the January 2007 issue of GQ . A national bestseller,

42-549: A long time". The album appeared at number 28 in The Village Voice ' s Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 2001. Rob Sheffield Robert James Sheffield (born February 2, 1966) is an American music journalist and author. He is a long time contributing editor at Rolling Stone , writing about music, TV, and pop culture. Previously, he was a contributing editor at Blender , Spin and Details magazines. A native of Milton, Massachusetts , Sheffield has

56-585: A new child. During this time period Joe Plummer briefly filled in on drums. On October 2, 2006, it was reported by Pitchfork that John Moen had become a full-time member of The Decemberists and had been replaced by Janet Weiss - drummer of Quasi and the then-defunct Sleater-Kinney . The band's fourth studio album, Real Emotional Trash , was recorded at SnowGhost Music in Whitefish, Montana , and released on March 4, 2008 to generally positive reviews. While Malkmus spent much of 2010 on tour with Pavement,

70-569: The British All Tomorrow's Parties festival. The band released Face the Truth in 2005 to widely positive reviews, many of them claiming a return to Wowee Zowee -type form. Most of the album was recorded by Malkmus alone in his basement, although each member of the Jicks play on at least one song on the record. The band toured minimally for this record, partially due to the fact that Malkmus had

84-458: The Mouth a Desert", "Shady Lane", "Box Elder", and "Stereo" among others. Stephen Malkmus (album) Stephen Malkmus is the debut album by Stephen Malkmus , released on February 13, 2001 by Matador Records . Malkmus had planned to create the record by himself, or through a smaller, local label, but eventually accepted the offer Matador made, and he released it. Pre-release promotional CDs of

98-557: The National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music. Writing in The New York Times , Amanda Hess praises his encyclopedic knowledge of Swift's music, fans, and business acumen, but especially her talent as a songwriter, saying "everything always leads back to her virtuosic writing". Publishers Weekly says "the unrestrained delight with which Sheffield captures his subject, [mixes]

112-494: The album exist under the working titles Jicks and Swedish Reggae . Malkmus intended to release the album as The Jicks, but Matador insisted that the album be released under his own name. The album peaked at number 124 in the US and number 49 in the UK. Stephen Malkmus received positive reviews from music critics. Rob Sheffield , writing for Rolling Stone , compared the album favorably to

126-690: The band completed recording on their fifth album Mirror Traffic with Beck Hansen . Prior to the release, Janet Weiss' departure from the Jicks lineup was announced. Her place was taken by ex- Joggers drummer Jake Morris. The band's sixth studio album, Wig Out at Jagbags , was released on January 7, 2014. It was recorded in the La Chapelle studio in Belgium with Pavement's F.O.H. live sound engineer Remko 'El Duche' Schouten. Overdubs were done in Berlin where Stephen lived from 2012 until 2014 with his family. The album

140-717: The book was met with much acclaim. Sheffield's sixth book, released in April 2017, is called Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World . An excerpt was published online by Rolling Stone. USA Today gave Dreaming the Beatles three and one-half (out of four) stars and called it a "charming new collection of essays." Spin added that " Dreaming the Beatles is equal parts history and cultural criticism, as Sheffield draws from dozens of sources to lay down

154-424: The solo debuts by Television 's Tom Verlaine and The Velvet Underground 's Lou Reed , commenting: "Freed from the constraints of a band that didn't constrain him all that much, [Malkmus] grapples with the problem of what to do with all the empty spaces in the music". Similarly, Pitchfork reviewer Nick Mirov opined that Malkmus "has regained his songwriting stride, and he sounds more confident than he's been in

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168-533: The story of how the Beatles came to be, before writing about why any of it matters." MTV opined that " Dreaming the Beatles is one of the best books about the band ever written." Sheffield won the ASCAP Foundation's Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism for Dreaming the Beatles in 2017. Sheffield's latest book, published in November 2024, about singer Taylor Swift , is entitled Heartbreak Is

182-552: Was mixed in Amsterdam's IJland Studio . On March 26, 2018, it was announced that the band's seventh studio album, Sparkle Hard would be released on May 18, 2018. For much of the band's existence, the Jicks did not regularly perform songs by Malkmus's previous band Pavement. However, since about 2012, the group has shown a greater willingness to occasionally play Pavement songs (generally one or two per show). Commonly played Pavement songs in later Jicks performances have included "In

196-434: Was the name of the band's second record, which was released in 2003. The album featured a looser interplay between the musicians with longer song lengths and a growing emphasis on guitar solos . The album received positive reviews, gaining 4/5 stars from Rolling Stone and an 8.0/10 from Pitchfork Media . In 2003 the Jicks opened for Radiohead on their North American tour, and in 2004 the band helped to curate an edition of

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