Groove Denied: Stephen Malkmus in conversation with Vanity Fair's Michael Hogan 

Ha I can vouch for that, I bumped into him at a Pavement show in ‘95. He was in the crowd checking out the Pastels who were supporting

"randomly" at jicks shows??

me2

same here, just got a cd of it in the mail today 🧚🏽‍♀️

Same. This was only a few months before he died.

Can I come man

The first time I really got myself into a K hokwI I was listening to the 2001 self titled album and it always brings me back. I saw him with the jicks in Tasmania, Australia in 2015 and it remains the single greatest performance I've ever seen.

Ah man I don't like anything that can make you forget you've taken it :D one time me (this is 20 years ago) and my friends got some and did a bit and decided it wasn't working so we did about 1/4 gram each in one go, cue spending an unknowable amount of time with the room splitting into a million pieces and reassembling itself only to find myself in the other corner of the room, I thought I'd been sent through time on some sort of mission to reclaim my sanity, I'll stick to mushrooms if I wanna feel spazzy in future

I can imagine that

@@andybonerpower1806 uhh...what?

@@bgilley8199 maybe someone saw something on a blind item. Just sayin what I allegedly heard, supposedly

Cause the interviewer does a terrible job.

Pavement was never intended to last.

He seems like a pretty well-rounded guy to me, he's just clearly an introvert. Yeah, he usually seems high or something, but that may just be a part of his personality.

@@Protolic yes

R. S. According to the description: April 30, 2019.

Pre Corona craziness

Hes on every interview this way...

He seems like he could care less about politics, he's totally blasé about everything... Maybe stop throwing all these if's, and's and but's around at someone you don't know? Also there's plenty of people in the music industry who voice there unpopular opinions about politics and there career is still intact, look at Kanye West for example...

@@BoogWorldwide LOL @ you. Kanye West's political opinions are as establishment-approved at it gets. Nice try, though.

​@@thenoseknows4389 Malkman gets plenty of shit for being a Tulsi-stan, like he says in the interview. He follows Chapo Trap House, follows hard lefty--some would even call 'em "tankie"--journalists on Twitter who all write for the Grayzone (i.e Max Blumenthal, Rania Khalek, Aaron Mate, Ben Norton, all of whom were really supportive of Tulsi's anti-interventionist slant) and are ruthlessly hounded by the 'establishment' for publishing narratives that go against the usual centrist/center left stuff with regards to places like Syria, Venezuela, China, etc., Seems like it'd be a lot of next-level galaxy brain plotting to be dishonest about his politics like that. Don't hold out any hope that he's some sort of subversive based and red-pilled anti-SJW who's afraid to show his true power level or some bullshit like that--then he'd be next in line after Corgan to show up on InfoWars.

damn now you're the whiny kid in the comments

Huh? I really liked this interviewer. He had a great vibe with Malkmus who is generally a difficult person to interview, and went to some interesting places.

Are you watching a different interview? Malkmus was witty in a dorky self effacing way and was also surprisingly forthright. The interviewer seemed to know his stuff. I mean it's the guy from Pavement. of course he's going to be mumbly or whiny. That's just his style. What do you people expect from him?

That's all part of the charm!

@@TapeCollageForEloise 100 agree! He literally invented zero f**cks given culture and it's hilarious.

I love him, I find his wit, coupled with his voice, enthralling.